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Microsoft to bring Kinect to Windows PCs

Technology Jan. 11, 2012 - 06:54AM JST ( 5 )

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Microsoft's new Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 is displayed on a shelf at a store in Miami Beach

Microsoft has shipped more than 18 million Kinects since the Xbox peripheral went on sale just a little over a year ago

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ebisenJan. 11, 2012 - 08:09AM JST

It's already, with hacked drivers, both on WIndows and on Linux (my favorite).

Typical Microsoft, make a GREAT product (the Kinekt is IMHO the most innovative computer related product of the past years), and then lock it down to one device (the xBox). Kinect has so many applications outside the gaming world, it is beyond me how this lock was approved and how the other opportunities were not seen by Microsoft...
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lostrune2Jan. 11, 2012 - 03:22PM JST

Yep, already hacked PC drivers just weeks after its release............ People already use it for mocap and pr0n, hahaha.................
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Mark_McCrackenJan. 11, 2012 - 04:38PM JST

Skip to 1:14 to watch a demonstration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsiFjeRWjw
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viking68Jan. 11, 2012 - 05:10PM JST

ebisenJAN. 11, 2012 - 08:09AM JST

It's already, with hacked drivers, both on WIndows and on Linux (my favorite).

Typical Microsoft, make a GREAT product (the Kinekt is IMHO the most innovative computer related product of the past years), and then lock it down to one device (the xBox). Kinect has so many applications outside the gaming world, it is beyond me how this lock was approved and how the other opportunities were not seen by Microsoft...

Agreed that this is an amazing product.

I see any move by Microsoft as benefiting itself. I don't think the lock was illogical or not a beneficial to Microsoft..

I think Microsoft delays in releasing it for the PC was to first gain a foothold with the Xbox crowd, where people are willing to adopt the next new fun thing.

Once the Xbox crowd adopted it and created an established market for something that previously had no market, it would be easier to push it to the PC crowd and dominate the world.
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ebisenJan. 11, 2012 - 05:34PM JST

viking - I can't see why having windows (and why not - Linux) drivers and an API open (remember the xbox is also a simplified windows device) would have harmed the sales, and not improved them... I bought it, although I use exclusively Linux on my machines, just to have some fun with it...