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Microsoft Is Moving Kinect to the Cloud (theverge.com)
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that Kinect is moving to the cloud. "Kinect, when we first launched it in 2010, was a speech-first, gaze-first, vision-first device. It was used in gaming, and then, later on, it came to the PC, and it was used in many applications: medical, industrial, robotics, education," said Nadella. "We've been inspired by what developers have done, and since Kinect, we've made a tremendous amount of progress when it comes to some of the foundational technologies in HoloLens. So we're taking those advances and packaging them up as Project Kinect for Azure." The Verge reports: It's big news after the depth camera and microphone accessory that originally debuted on the Xbox 360 was basically declared dead last October when Microsoft stopped manufacturing it. Alex Kipman, a technical fellow at Microsoft, explained in a LinkedIn blog post that Project Kinect for Azure would combine the depth sensor with Azure AI services that could help developers make devices that will be more precise "with less power consumption." Kipman also notes that AI deep learning on depth images could lead to "cheaper-to-deploy AI algorithms" that require smaller networks to operate.
On further analysis we decided the stand alone Kinnect was too consumer/developer friendly. So in an effort to harvest as much information as we can while making everything more "powerful" we're complicating the sh|t out of it so only we and those we fund can develop for it.
It was a junky piece of crap anyway.. M$ has too much money.. They spend money on dumb ideas..
in much the same way bribing GoDaddy to switch their parked domains to IIS increased the total presence of IIS on the internet, so shall moving yet another microsoft product into Azure help increase the presence of Microsofts cloud offering.
News from the future: Microsoft abruply shutters Azure 8 years after its release due to poor performance and not listening to a litany of developer complaints about the bugs in blob storage and the inability to support native docker without some sort of in-house developed version.
Good people go to bed earlier.
An internet connected camera, to Microsoft no less, with an AI watching?
Oh fucking hell no would I ever allow that shit into my home.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Fuck you.
Jesus Christ this shit is getting creepy and dystopian fast.
The connect 2 is limited by it's sensor resolution.
Any modern PC has more than enough CPU to do simple things like map the sensor data to an avatar skeleton.
Sure you can find a use of a Connect sensor that could use more CPU, but it won't likely have anything to do with gaming.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Ever notice how Microsoft never gives up? Kinect was a failure with XBox but let's keep throwing it out there until something works. Probably got a bunch of Kinect parts sitting in a warehouse and something has to be done with them. Sadly Microsoft just seems to recycle old ideals and them calls them new.
They fired all of my friends that worked on Kinect. I wish they would make-up their minds.
Inspired by what developers have done? Bullshit.
Microsoft sat on the Kinect name and ran it into the ground.
All the better to slurp you with, my dear!
But grandma! Eyes aren't for slurping!
I don't think you understand how this works, my dear!
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
Apple bought the company that developed the original Kinect sensor. That's how it got ran into the ground. The same technology that was in the original Kinect is what is inside the sensor array for face unlock. Just much more miniaturized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense
It's like an incremental upgrade to the Kinect hardware that instead of buying the whole thing, you buy half of it and are forced to rent the other half from a single provider that will leave your hardware useless as soon as you (or they) cancel the service.
A few years ago it was “Touch-First, Mobile-First” and now it’s “Speech-First, Gaze-First, Vision-First”. Does he understand that after something is first, the next thing has to be second? I hate dislike nonsensical, corporate double-talk.
Time to switch it off.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
Nutella, you can't have three firsts you fucking idiot.
That's like saying my new css framework is mobile-first, desktop-first and email-first.
Nonsense!
How are they moving a piece of hardware to the cloud?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".