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Kinect For Windows Coming In Early 2012

News

by Matt Helgeson on November 07, 2011 at 05:29 PM

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Today, Microsoft re-affirmed that Kinect functionality is coming to Windows in 2012, and launched a new beta of the Kinect for Windows SDK.

"I know many of you are eagerly awaiting the Kinect for Windows commercial program coming in early 2012. My team is working hard to deliver a great product and I’m confident that it will be worth the wait," said Kinect for Windows general manager Craig Eisler on his official blog. "Currently, we have more than 200 companies taking part in our pilot program. They are telling us how Kinect for Windows will help them transform their products, their processes, their brands, and their businesses. Putting the power of Kinect + Windows into the hands of business leaders and technical visionaries will give them the tools they need to develop novel solutions for everything from training employees to visualizing data, from configuring a car to managing an assembly line."

The new beta 2 of the Kinect for Windows development kit features a host of improvements including "faster skeletal tracking, better accuracy rate when it comes to skeletal tracking and joint recognition, and the ability to plug and unplug your Kinect without losing work/productivity."

To download the SDK and for more on Kinect for Windows, go to the official site.

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Filed under: News, Xbox 360, PC, Microsoft, Beta, motion control, Kinect, Windows, kinect for windows

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by Esteban Escobar Monday, November 07, 2011 at 05:51 PM

Is it sad that the Kinect seems to get more use on PCs than the Xbox?
by Matthew Fugere Monday, November 07, 2011 at 05:56 PM

Interesting. It'd be interesting to see how this will get used for various applications.
by The guy who is meh Monday, November 07, 2011 at 05:57 PM

Sick. Kinect will be 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x better on PC because people can create mods for existing games and make kinect functionality.
by Abertix24 Monday, November 07, 2011 at 06:10 PM

This is very interesting. Does that mean we can play Kinect-enabled games on the PC, or am I just being too optimistic?
by Phish Monday, November 07, 2011 at 06:15 PM

This is a brillant idea by MS because it will allow more people to get their hands on the kinect and just screw around with it. The tech is really cool and has plenty of uses(outside gaming that is). Look at what already has happened with people modding the kinect, and image that when it becomes even easier on a PC
by Buddy Acker Monday, November 07, 2011 at 06:46 PM

Apparently people were "eagerly awaiting" this news.
by XelaSalog Monday, November 07, 2011 at 06:52 PM

I only play Kinect games, it's the coolest way to game! I love poorly steering my cars in Forza with an invisible steering wheel and petting digital pandas is Kinectimals!
by Mat Monday, November 07, 2011 at 07:06 PM

This could lead to some serious innovation.... or something
by A7X Scarecrow Monday, November 07, 2011 at 07:27 PM

Wow, now Kinect is going to turn the PC into a garbage dump? Kinect, just die already you worthless gimmick.
by Poe8100 Monday, November 07, 2011 at 07:40 PM

Behold ladies and gentlemen! Corporate greed at its finest!
by XelaSalog Monday, November 07, 2011 at 07:55 PM

Sarcasm is very hard to convey in type
by halo rocks Monday, November 07, 2011 at 08:15 PM

Screw kinect
by chiefslayer Monday, November 07, 2011 at 08:38 PM

Its funny to see kinect haters comment even though they have absolutely no idea the impact this has or what it can do
by Allen Monday, November 07, 2011 at 08:58 PM

This is pretty cool. Honestly, the PC is where Kinect belongs, it's just kind of out of place on a home console. Hopefully these will see some growth for both markets, though.
by SweetAmber17 Monday, November 07, 2011 at 09:47 PM

Now the world is upside-down, kinect now with pC? whats next? sony with atari???
by Squirreleo Monday, November 07, 2011 at 11:33 PM

What excites me about this is all cool things that you can do with the technology, though I doubt that Kinect will be used much in games as that just not really something that I think many PC gamers will use (Pc gamers are more hardcore then console gamers)as it doesn't have the same kind of utility that a traditional keyboard and mouse have
by thatfoxguy Monday, November 07, 2011 at 11:57 PM

Seems like it could work...but I'd like to see its use outside of games and menu navigation