While we were predicting some more Adult game makers will try their hands on Microsoft’s Kinect but someone has found a creative learning way with Kinect.

With the media buzzing about the Kinect’s 3D sex game everyone was speculating that Kinect would be the next sex toy of the future, but here comes a creative idea which saved the reputation of Kinect

Originally achieved by pairing Kinect hardware with a set of knitted gloves that contained accelerometers, the researchers have now managed to ditch the gloves and focus directly on movements. By measuring the distances and changes between various body parts, the group has managed to achieve results of no lower than 98.8% accuracy based on tests of increasing difficulty.

The researchers are now working to integrate “hand shape features” rather than just gestural movements, so that they can expand the vocabulary and create a useful ASL tool. The focus of their development is the CopyCat software, which is to teach deaf children how to communicate with ASL.

This is only the first of many possible medical, academic and accessibility uses of the gaming device. It’s unknown as to whether Microsoft had originally known that this type of hacking would take place or that it would continue to grow at such an alarming pace, but so far (maybe with the exception of some more adult implementations), the development has been nothing but good.