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Kinect is a discontinued line of motion sensing input devices produced by Microsoft and first released in 2010. The devices generally contain RGB cameras, and infrared projectors and detectors that map depth through either structured light or time of flight calculations, which can in turn be used to perform real-time gesture recognition and body skeletal detection, among other capabilities.
The Azure Kinect was announced on February 24, 2019, in Barcelona at the MWC. [10] It was released in the US in March 2020, and in the UK, Germany, and Japan in April 2020. [11] Microsoft announced that the Azure Kinect hardware kit would be discontinued in October 2023, and referred users to third party suppliers for spare parts. [12]
PrimeSense was best known for licensing the hardware design and chip used in Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 in 2010. [2] The company had been founded in 2005 to explore depth-sensing cameras which they had demonstrated to developers at the 2006 Game Developers Conference .
HoloLens runs the Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. Some of the positional tracking technology used in HoloLens can trace its lineage to the Microsoft Kinect, an accessory for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox One game consoles that was introduced in 2010. [3]
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Windows 10 April 2018 Update Windows Server 2019: Named after a fictional mineral from Minecraft. [62] [63] Santorini Windows 10X: Dropped Named after an island in Greece. Originally supposed to be a new OS to be released mid-late 2021, was eventually cancelled. Some of its features were integrated into Windows ...
One of the main members was PrimeSense, the company behind the technology used in the Kinect, a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console. In December 2010, PrimeSense, whose depth sensing reference design Kinect is based on, released their own open source drivers along with motion tracking middleware called ...
Project Milo (also referred to as Milo and Kate) was a project in development by Lionhead Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. Formerly a secretive project under the early codename "Dimitri", [1] Project Milo was unveiled at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in a demonstration for Kinect, as a "controller-free" entertainment initiative for the Xbox 360 based on depth-sensing ...
A Windows compatible Kinect 2.0 was released on July 15, 2014. [139] Kinect 2.0 was released as a standalone and optional item in October 2014; it is bundled with a digital copy of Dance Central Spotlight. [140] Xbox One S lacks the Kinect connection port, requiring a USB/power adapter to use the accessory. [105]