Official MS Kinect SDK Coming to Windows

fredr1k writes "Microsoft figured there is some movement in the Kinect hacking scene. They have now announced a Kinect SDK for Windows. (Though only for Academics & Enthusiasts). 'Ever since the November launch of Kinect for Xbox 360, enthusiasts and academic researchers alike have expressed their excitement and intense interest in the possibilities created by the products ability to enable users to bring games and entertainment to life without using a controller. While Microsoft plans to release a commercial version at a later date, this SDK will be a starter kit to make it simpler for the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich natural user interfaces using Kinect technology.'"

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Re:We are being kinectically assimilated

[ArhcAngel]

/. car analogy time. Let's say Microsoft sells cars. You open a car dealership down the road from Microsoft. Shortly thereafter you have several cars stolen and find them for sale on Microsoft's lot. You go to court to get your cars back and by the time it actually goes to trial the cars in question have already been sent to the junk yard they are so old. Microsoft pays you a small percentage of the money it cost you over the last 15 years to end the suite.

Meanwhile cars have evolved and now travel through tubes. Another company starts selling tube conversion kits for Microsoft and other cars. Microsoft caught off guard by the new tube cars buys a company that makes the tube conversions and starts giving them away for free all but killing the tube conversion market and destroying any competition for years.

Now they hire a mechanic who used to work on the competitions cars and say they are a new kinder gentler Microsoft and to please trust them when they say they no longer consider the competitor a virus.

I can't see why anyone would possibly doubt their sincerity /s