1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott! What the hell is a gigawatt you may be asking yourself? Well Marty, a gigawatt is 1 billion watts. It’s also an independently built Kinect game that was built using Unity3D. It seems as though the premise is relatively straight forward. Bring your arms together in front of you by touching your hands together and shoot – what I can only assume based on the title – a crazy amount of energy at some blocks. Blow up some blocks, pat yourself on the back, move on.

About the possibilities of Kinect

Kinect has become a device, that is interesting for games, but even more interesting for all kind of non-game Uses. Just think of a tool, that steers a Factory Robot or a Mech suit as seen in the Movie “Aliens” from 1986. YOU would directly move each arm or foot of the Machine. YOU would interact with heavy obstacles without even beeing close to those objects.
Or think of software for Physiotherapy. Together with open source software like Open NI injured people could learn simple movements again. All this could be packed inside a game, which could make painful therapies more bearable for kids or youths.

Kinecthacks.com

Team

Jürgen Brunner
PELS (University of applied sciences)