Kinect kinky: Kinect sex could be a thing

Sorry - we had to bring this up. So it is theoretically possible to have remote e-sex using Microsoft's new Kinect Motion Controller.

One of the greatest minds in the field of teledildonics -Kyle Machulis - has already tackled the question of how to have sex through the Kinect, and he blogs about the possibilities at Slashdong.

What he works out, after some experimentation, is that the Kinect's camera, though it is sensitive enough to pick up body movements like running and jumping isn't sensitive enough to pick up more subtle movements of the human body. Kyle noted that the Kinect camera had difficulty picking up his tongue, among other examples of movement.

He writes:

"Microsoft put a ton of work into making the kinect track the human body as a whole, so you can play games by jumping and running and generally acting the fucking fool and feel like you're in the game instead of just sad. Genitalia, for the most part, are not a major geometric feature of the human body when taken in perspective of physical size."

Do read the full blog post analysis at Slashdong

[cnet, via shellypalmer]