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Microsoft Prepares To Push Kinect Everywhere Windows Is
An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has an update on Microsoft's effort to push Kinect gesture control technology beyond the Xbox console and make it a standard Windows computer accessory. Microsoft has sold Kinect for Windows hardware to developers since February and now products based on it are appearing, such as GestSure's system for surgeons in the operating room. Microsoft won't say when it will begin selling Kinect for Windows hardware directly to consumers, but seems poised to do so once enough developers have readied applications."
Just hold your phone out in front of you, and wave you other arm and legs to control. It's so simple, even a three year old can do it.
Well that is one way one to make Windows 8 easier to use on the desktop.
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Microsoft confident all future technology to involve waving your arms around like a fucking crazy person
I have this application that keeps track of my personnel and HR resources. Before Kinect, I hated to fire people. It was always a miserable experience.
But now with Kinect, I love to fire people! I rewrote the code so all I have to do is highlight your HR Record, stand in front of my Kinect, and dance, baby, dance!!! Kinect made Christmas fun again. We're usually low on money around Christmas, and with the new fiscal year, we often have to lay people off in bulk. So, my HR staff and I have dance-offs to decide who goes and who stays! It's a real hoot! If HR wins, you stay for another day! If I win, *poof* you're gone!
Thanks Microsoft!!!
... have one of these.
I just want to be able at some point to say, "Oh. A keyboard. How quaint."
Everything is better with chainsaws.
Check out leap watch the video, still claiming that that will ship in early 2013.
When it first came out I thought "gimmick." Then I read blogs and new stories for over year after it came out with people talking about how cool it was. I still didn't believe it. But when it came time to buy the XBox for my kid, I decided we needed to have it just to see what it was about. I was actually excited to try it out. We lived our first weekend with the living room in disarray so we could have room to use it.
Of course, the novelty wore off very quickly and all it does now is collect dust and take up space in front of the TV. It's voice control sucks and using it with the menu system with gestures is just annoying. It's far easier to use the controller.
At least I can say I tried it, I guess.
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.