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Willowgarage are also the guys behind the Point Cloud Library, an awesome computer vision library for processing point clouds (e.g. what the Kinect produces):

http://www.pointclouds.org/about.html

The Kinect Fusion implementation by Anatoly Baksheev in their trunk is very impressive:

http://www.pointclouds.org/news/kinectfusion-open-source.htm...

If anyone has a Kinect and Ubuntu and wants to try it, I've compiled an unpolished tutorial on how to do that:

http://hobonaut.com/