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Microsoft To Back Kinect-Based Startups

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-going-through-hr-dept dept.

angry tapir writes "Microsoft has announced a program designed to help 10 developers or startups launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. Developers with Kinect applications for the Xbox or Windows are invited to apply to the Kinect Accelerator program, even though Microsoft does not yet allow the sale of products based on Kinect for Windows."

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  1. Re:Rip-off central by tomhudson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is no way in HELL that I would let my stuff sit somewhere that I didn't control access. My laptop, for example, has source for several commercial projects for others (one of which cost in the 7 figures to develop, so no, not "shits and giggles" stuff), as well as some of my current and past projects. And personal stuff. "Gee, sorry, but it seems to have disappeared."

    It's the same story with my desktop box.

    So you may want to reconsider leaving your stuff overnight where someone else controls access, esp. since you'll have 9 other groups of strangers wandering around at the same time.