Xbox-like sensor deployed in Korean border

Rappler.com

Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP

Microsoft’s Kinect has gone beyond a movement-sensing software in the popular Xbox game. It’s also the foundation of the security device deployed along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea – a no-man’s land of heavily fortified fences that bristles with the landmines and listening posts of the two nations. The software developed by Ko Jae-Kwan has been taken up by the South Korean military because of its ability to differentiate between human and animal movement.

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