Microsoft Building New Version of Kinect For Windows PC

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Hey , this might make METRO usable on a PC LCD. And to the old_newbie above... do you honestly think they are NOT researching the software that incorporates motion detecting algorithms??? It's kinda the basis of the Kinect isn't it...
 
you people are so short sighted! i have been using kinect on pc for some months now, and i never use it for gaming. ever see minority report? i have a 3d desktop replacement that kinect makes so easy.
 
[citation][nom]old_newbie[/nom]Not interested in a software company pushing hardware. M$ should be researching/developing the software algorythms to recognize motion, maximizing the use of existing hardware (There are some great PC indie projects out there that have kinect/Move like capability using a regular $15 webcam). I'm pretty sure a 3 Ghz quad core computer can handle the workload of the required computations; instead of offloading onto yet another piece of $100 hardware.[/citation]

I don't even care, all, I know is this is awe freaking some!!!!
 
I like all the people who come here to talk on a TECH website who constantly put down new ideas and new tech.

One of you said you would rather have a new GPU.... LOL really? ? ? Yeah what a new exciting program you will be able to run. Oh wait you can run the same things I do, and the same things you ran before you got the new GPU. Gratz.....

This is a great idea and I hope it takes off. I will certainly buy one.

I think it will be really useful when Windows 8 comes out.... for those of us who don't want to touch our monitor.

Get it? Probably most of you don't since you are still hoping to get that new SLI GPU to run your programs slightly faster........ IDIOTS.
 
Since everything is going mobile and people love the standard mobile interface, this should be popular and breathe new life into Windows.
 
[citation][nom]southernshark[/nom]I like all the people who come here to talk on a TECH website who constantly put down new ideas and new tech. One of you said you would rather have a new GPU.... LOL really? ? ? Yeah what a new exciting program you will be able to run. Oh wait you can run the same things I do, and the same things you ran before you got the new GPU. Gratz.....This is a great idea and I hope it takes off. I will certainly buy one.I think it will be really useful when Windows 8 comes out.... for those of us who don't want to touch our monitor. Get it? Probably most of you don't since you are still hoping to get that new SLI GPU to run your programs slightly faster........ IDIOTS.[/citation]
Thumbs up. Some of the morons here keep yapping about gaming....the Article above isn't even related to gaming!!! And you're rigjht about the GPU...i so regret after i upgrade to a GTX-460 GPU (then was quiet top of the line). It did the same thing before i upgrade, with only more frames per seconds.....FREAKING BORING!!!

Btw, i owns an Xbox and Kinect. Kinect is a great idea and MS is the first to managed to get this tech to the mass market. There'll be tons of use in the future as the tech improves and matures.
 
[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Microsoft is doing a lot of things right these days...this is one of them. It doesn't just have to be used for gaming; as the Kinect hacks have proven, its potential is liimitless.[/citation]
That's because they make things, rather than rely on a reality distortion field powered by the Dark Side.
 


NO U. I don't need "new programs" or to control my computer with Kinect or touchscreen, I'm perfectly fine with what we have now. I'd rather see software developers focusing on using multicore/HT/CUDA/Stream for their software and optimizing it more rather than introducing new ways of wasting your time (waving your hands in front of the screen vs. mouse and keyboard).
 
[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]NO U. I don't need "new programs" or to control my computer with Kinect or touchscreen, I'm perfectly fine with what we have now. I'd rather see software developers focusing on using multicore/HT/CUDA/Stream for their software and optimizing it more rather than introducing new ways of wasting your time (waving your hands in front of the screen vs. mouse and keyboard).[/citation]
I can see one useful application, for the HTPC running XBMC so I don't need to fish for a remote I can use the voicecontrol or wave at it to pause/rewind/search for content.
 


Sure, I guess, though the remote will still be cheaper, I bet :) But the primary focus will be tablet/phone-like crApps for Windows 8 that will smear the functionality of a single Internet browser over 1000+ pieces of [strike]$h!t[/strike] software. Then the desktop will be dumbed down, too, and it will be worse than any phone/tablet, because tablets were created to be dumb from the start, but the desktop wasn't.
 
[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]Sure, I guess, though the remote will still be cheaper, I bet But the primary focus will be tablet/phone-like crApps for Windows 8 that will smear the functionality of a single Internet browser over 1000+ pieces of $h!t software. Then the desktop will be dumbed down, too, and it will be worse than any phone/tablet, because tablets were created to be dumb from the start, but the desktop wasn't.[/citation]
Yeah, I agree, someone always takes good tech a turns it into an idiot box, the PC is like that now, way too dumbed down compared to the old command line computers back in the day. Even the Amish could use them, but i'm glad MS are doing it this way by pushing it into the world to let it thrive rather than keeping a tight hold in some kind of crazy Jobsian control freak death grip.

Within 2 years there will be Kinect Apps for the PC that we could never have imagined and when they appear we will wonder how we even lived without them, it's going to be an exciting time.
 


There's a limit to everything... command line is good, but not good enough, since most of the things are faster with GUI. Kinect, however, doesn't seem to offer anything new rather than try to replace mouse/KB. MS already tried that with Vista when they proudly declared that mouse/KB will be [:amk-aka-phantom:1] secondary [:amk-aka-phantom:1] there... didn't work. Now it's been about 6 years and the consumer's mind is dumbed down enough by tablets/Apple/etc. and they'll easily accept an un-needed change.
 
[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]There's a limit to everything... command line is good, but not good enough, since most of the things are faster with GUI. Kinect, however, doesn't seem to offer anything new rather than try to replace mouse/KB. MS already tried that with Vista when they proudly declared that mouse/KB will be secondary there... didn't work. Now it's been about 6 years and the consumer's mind is dumbed down enough by tablets/Apple/etc. and they'll easily accept an un-needed change.[/citation]
You mean Siri don't you...
 
[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]That's right. I'd rather get a better GPU, an SSD or a gaming keyboard than the Kinect set.[/citation]What if you've already got all that stuff? Then would you get a Kinect for PC?

Also, there are a lot of casual console gamers running integrated graphics that would love to have Just Dance 3 on PC. From a business standpoint, this has a lot of upside.
 
I'm not a gamer yet, I purchased one of these solely on the basis of what I've seen in a handful of YouTube videos. I do not have an XBox and have no use for one. I am a programmer and I purchased the Kinect for use with my PC, only.
I honestly believe that this unit is the forerunner which opens up the gateway for more alternative input devices to make their way to the PC. And like one of the posters above has said about Kinect and Windows 8, this will make use of the Metro UI so much better, specially for those without a touch screen (which IMO, is pointless to have on a desktop system).
 
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