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The most interesting thing about the Microsoft Kinect video game add-on is definitely not the games or anything officially released thus far — it is the hacks that the hacking community has been able to turn out thus far (and this is just the beginning). One of the hacks allows you to wield a lightsaber in real time, a task which usually takes hours of rotoscoping in a post production software program. Hit the jump to see a video demonstration. Who knows what practical uses this may have (likely none) or if we might see such action a future Star Wars video game (my guess is not). If only the Star Wars kid had access to such technology…

Source: /film