"I have an itch to make a Kinect title for Xbox Live." That's what id Software's resident technology guru, John Carmack, told Joystiq during an interview conducted today, though he admits, "I don't even know what I'd want to do yet."

"I can't use Kinect for our real games; there just isn't a place for our current FPSes on there," Carmack admitted. "But it's an interesting technology, and an Xbox Live game would be the perfect platform to do something like that on, at about the same scale of [a game for] an iOS device."

Given that he's "spent his budget" for time away from development work on Rage on consoles and PC developing Rage for iOS, and has a multitude of other projects -- mostly research-related -- simmering, it'll probably some time before Carmack even gets to decide exactly what he'd do for Kinect. Actually making the game is another matter altogether. Still, it's nice to know there's an actual rocket scientist thinking about the possibilities for Microsoft's motion-control tech. Take that, mere robot makers!