MIT Hacks Kinect Laser For A Wearable Map Generator For Firefighters

When most of us play video games, our greatest accomplishment is the mound of?Cheetos?dust we can collect in a single sitting. At MIT, researchers have hacked the Microsoft Kinect's laser into a wearable chest sensor that creates a floor-plan as the user moves throughout a building. The immediate use case, reports MIT News, is for emergency personal who could benefit from a real-time map as they explore unfamiliar buildings. Even better, the system memorizes where the wearer has been, so it could alert firefighters if they are accidentally backtracking or need to find a their original way out.

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