The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids
Details
- External ID
- 49682477
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The Kinect is dead, so I rebuilt it in a browser tab for my kids
- Website domain
- hoplagames.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based motion tracking for games
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Browser-based body tracking can easily be implemented using existing client-side vision libraries like MediaPipe or TensorFlow.js combined with standard HTML5 Canvas/WebGL games.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Kinect
Competitors
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Attention rank: #69 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.