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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]
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said it sold more than 2.5 million units of Kinect for Xbox 360 in just 25 days. Strong sales over the Black Friday weekend boosted sales for the controller-free games and ...
Wha? Even before a Hololens sequel could grace Microsoft's stage at MWC, the company has revived the Kinect, but in a buttoned-downed business sense. Nearly a decade since the Kinect first ...
The Kinect works with the company's Xbox video-game console to enable. Microsoft (MSFT) beat its 2010 sales forecast for its Kinect motion-sensor device by 60%, outselling Sony's competing Move ...
Kinect did not use controllers, instead using cameras to capture the player's body motion and using that to direct gameplay, effectively making the players act as the "controllers". Having sold eight million units in its first 60 days on the market, Kinect claimed the Guinness World Record of being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device".
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 .
Kinect didn't die, it just changed forms. Today at its annual Build developers conference, Microsoft announced Project Kinect for Azure saying that the sensor array will have all the capabilities ...