Real Time Lightsaber Hack on Microsofts Kinect

I'm really not into the whole X-Box 360 Microsoft Kinect thing, but this is actually pretty damn cool. It's the closest thing we'll ever have to actually being able to mess around with a real lightsaber. The hack allows the user to wield a lightsaber in real-time. Here's a note from the guy who figured it out, yankeyan:

Proof of concept of tracking and rendering a lightsaber in real time using a Kinect hooked up to a PC. Imagine the possibilities.

I track a wooden stick and I overlay the light glow on the computer. Drivers using OpenKinect, image processing, tracking, and rendering using OpenCV. Audio recorded and processed using Audacity and played using libao.

Seems pretty simple... if you know what in the hell you're doing. Check out the video below and tell us what you think!