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Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @07:10PM from the press-any-key-or-flail-spastically-to-continue dept.

clinko writes "Microsoft has announced that the new Kinect for Windows hardware and accompanying software will be available on February 1st, 2012 in 12 countries, at a suggested retail price of US $249 ($149 for edu). Microsoft has chosen a hardware-only business model for Kinect for Windows; they will not be charging for the SDK or the runtime. These will be available free to developers and end-users respectively."

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Re:Why So expensive? by Eirenarch · 2012-01-10 21:10 · Score: 5, Informative

The final version of the SDK will only work with Kinect for Windows hardware (meanwhile the Beta version license will be extended by 3 years and will continue to work with normal Kinect). Kinect for Windows will feature Near Mode as well.
If you want officially supported SDK you need Kinect for Windows. That's the deal.