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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.
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.
They fired all of my friends that worked on Kinect. I wish they would make-up their minds.
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
In the meantime, all that audio and video will be going to Microsoft's cloud ... Waiting for something bad to happen.
No, It's much better. The original was lame and low res. Couldn't make out a finger.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Anyone have resolution specs on the original and current?
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.
Original 650x480 video, 320x240 depth
V2 1920x1080 video, 512x424 depth
V2 also has a wider field of view but lacks a motor to move it.
It can track more joints and more skeletons.
http://zugara.com/how-does-the...
But think of all the "interesting analytics" that it will generate. I guess given that they are running out of data to put on the cloud, they are digging up and resurrecting old projects.
http://www.cscjournals.org/lib...
"In modern enterprises, customer data is valuable for identifying their behavioral patterns and developing marketing strategies that can align with the preferences of different customers. The objective of this research is to develop a framework that promotes the use of Kinect sensors for Big Data Analytics on customer behavior analysis. Kinect enables 3D motion capture, facial recognition and voice recognition capabilities which allow to analyze customer behaviors in various aspects. Information fusion on the network of multiple Kinect sensors can achieve enhanced insight of the customer emotion, habits and consuming tendencies. Big Data Analytic techniques such as clustering and visualization are applied on the data collected from the sensors to provide better comprehension on the customers. Prediction on how to improve the customer relationship can be made to stimulate the vendition. Finally, an experimental system is designed based on the proposed framework as an illustration of the framework implementation."
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
Well, the latest buzzword is to put pre- in front of every word, like pre-prepared or pre-planned or pre-predicted.
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Time to switch it off.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
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".