<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MvP4cHfUD5g" width="640">></iframe> Microsoft’s motion sensing device Kinect promises new frontiers for gamers who want to play just by gesturing or speaking. Now a hacked Kinect could have more serious uses by showing everyone what your brain actually looks like under the skull, in 3D. SEE ALSO: Steer a Spaceship With Your Brain Using a touch screen tablet, some duct tape, brain scans, and the newest Kinect application programming interface (API) called Fusion, a team from Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK built an augmented reality system aimed at helping brain surgeons. Ben Glocker, a post-doc researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, recently showed a prototype of the setup to IEEE Spectrum during Microsoft TechFest 2013. In the video above, he discusses how the team duct-taped a USB-powered touchscreen device to the Kinect Fusion, which allows them to 3D model just about anything.
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