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Re:Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey You... by chapel on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @05:45PM (#1916065)
I almost wonder if Kinect will be big like the Wii due to the impressive amount of hacking done with it's hardware much like the Wii had with it's Wiimote.
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Re:Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey You... by angusgr on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @06:22PM (#1916153)
I don't think the causality (hacking->popularity) runs that way. If anything, I'd think it runs the other way (popularity of the Wii made the Wiimote available in every game store and cheap for hacking on.)

However, the popularity of the Wii would seem to have been due to it being novel and fun.

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