Hacked Kinect Captures 3D Image Reconstruction, "Almost Holographic"

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The Kinect may now be hacked, unhacked (albeit verbally) and rehacked, but it’s also gained the honor of being the first video gaming device (that we know of) used to capture half of a 3D holographic (or rather holographic-seeming) image, especially one this cheap to make. Wait, what? Well, it’s a bit hard to explain, but there’s this person who took a Kinect, haXXored the bejeezus out of it and basically used the depth camera feed to create a 3D image that you can scroll and spin around and look behind objects in.

Well, it’s just half for now, because one  Kinect only has one viewing angle , but it’s not hard to conceive of a second Kinect on the opposite side and their feeds synchronized somehow to provide comprehensive, accurate  imagery of some guy’s basement. We can’t imagine exactly what commercial applications can be gleaned from this, we’re certainly not going off to register holographicporn.com or anything. We did it before posting this, obviously.