Microsoft has also made available an updated version of the beta SDK. If you're the type of person who can actually mess around with that thing, you can snag it from the newly-launched Kinect for Windows site. You know, if you want -- we don't care either way. We're too winded from this afternoon's Dance Central 2 session and need to lay down for a bit.
Kinect for Windows is coming early 2012, beta 2 of SDK now available
by David Hinkle 
on Nov 5th 2011 8:00AM
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Microsoft has also made available an updated version of the beta SDK. If you're the type of person who can actually mess around with that thing, you can snag it from the newly-launched Kinect for Windows site. You know, if you want -- we don't care either way. We're too winded from this afternoon's Dance Central 2 session and need to lay down for a bit.
Reader Comments (17)
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 8:37AM nighttime said
CTRL + ALT + DEL will no doubt be some sort of hanging spider pose.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 8:44AM GuitarHero666 said
@nighttime I would reprogramm it so it could be activating by raising the middle finger.
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Posted: Nov 5th 2011 9:23AM oxfordfishsalon said
cool arrangement of Where is my Mind
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 9:51AM ASlamd said
Along with Windows 8 new interface this could actually be pretty cool.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 11:11AM Dick Socrates said
"It started with a censor that turned voice and movement directly into imprecision and frustration."
I can't breath properly because of all the schmaltz. Even with Jobs safely dead and in cryogenic storage, MS still don't stand a chance as they don't have a clue how to market anything. It's like they caught Spielberg on a particularly bad day. Tinkingly wonderment.
Turns out the only thing the Kinect can't do properly is play games with it.
I can't breath properly because of all the schmaltz. Even with Jobs safely dead and in cryogenic storage, MS still don't stand a chance as they don't have a clue how to market anything. It's like they caught Spielberg on a particularly bad day. Tinkingly wonderment.
Turns out the only thing the Kinect can't do properly is play games with it.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 12:20PM akeso said
@Dick Socrates
The problem is really that the games you can play with it aren't all that good.
Kinetic is emerging as an amazing work tool.
*Take a look sometime at the robot interfaces coming out of graduate research.*
The problem with kinect isn't the marketing, it's that they made a controller without hand helds and gave it to a medium that uses hands helds and likes doing so.
What they need to do, and are doing now, is looking for a medium that uses hand helds and hates doing so.
Their examples of surgery or bomb defusing are great examples of that.
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The problem is really that the games you can play with it aren't all that good.
Kinetic is emerging as an amazing work tool.
*Take a look sometime at the robot interfaces coming out of graduate research.*
The problem with kinect isn't the marketing, it's that they made a controller without hand helds and gave it to a medium that uses hands helds and likes doing so.
What they need to do, and are doing now, is looking for a medium that uses hand helds and hates doing so.
Their examples of surgery or bomb defusing are great examples of that.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 12:15PM Unarmed Turkey said
Simple voice command needed.....
"Kinect install Mac OSX"
No need for SDK!!
"Kinect install Mac OSX"
No need for SDK!!
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 2:30PM HankWilliamsLOL said
I like the Kinect very much.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 3:44PM (Unverified) said
This is epic! think of all the real world applications that this can bring. I am an OTA student and i have been salivating over the possibilities that i can come up with to help geriatric or war vets and even children learn to function with disabilities and be independent.
Posted: Nov 5th 2011 5:08PM Miligig said
Does anyone know what soundtrack is in the background of the video?
Posted: Nov 6th 2011 11:15AM FestiveTragedy said
@Miligig I'm pretty sure its a cover of the pixies "where is my mind"
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Posted: Nov 5th 2011 7:15PM kevinthesmith said
I don't think that Microsoft overlooked the capabilities of Kinect: contrary to the Apple brigade's teachings, there are some very clever people working at Microsoft.
I know my opinion doesn't really count towards anything but I believe that they had two plans:
Plan A: Release Kinect and the community sees Kinect's true potential and starts developing their own uses for it, then Microsoft swoops in as the cool good guys and helps the devs out.
Plan B: Release Kinect and if no one comes up with alternate uses, Microsoft comes out with them like any other product.
Obviously 'Plan A' worked out and now Microsoft has a special relationship with the dev community. Just speculation of course.
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I know my opinion doesn't really count towards anything but I believe that they had two plans:
Plan A: Release Kinect and the community sees Kinect's true potential and starts developing their own uses for it, then Microsoft swoops in as the cool good guys and helps the devs out.
Plan B: Release Kinect and if no one comes up with alternate uses, Microsoft comes out with them like any other product.
Obviously 'Plan A' worked out and now Microsoft has a special relationship with the dev community. Just speculation of course.
Plan
Posted: Nov 6th 2011 6:09PM totalysharly said
@kevinthesmith the kinect from what I can tell is pretty easy to hack and use on a PC (I have bothered doing it with mine for no real reason) so I can only assume MS knew what they were doing when they released it. What you said with plan A sounds pretty on the nose.
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Posted: Nov 6th 2011 1:47AM ColorblindMonk said
I can see it now...
"PC! RAGE QUIT!"
"PC! RAGE QUIT!"
Posted: Nov 6th 2011 8:49PM Naru now in 3D said
Way to take credit for shit hackers did *in spite* of your technology, microsoft...
Posted: Nov 7th 2011 7:58AM (Unverified) said
Way to take credit for shit hackers did *in spite* of your technology, microsoft...
Why shouldn't they. They encourage the community and now they have an SDK expand the community and foster more innovation with the tech. The took the risk, spent billions of dollars in R&D to bring out this product and they should get credit.
Why shouldn't they. They encourage the community and now they have an SDK expand the community and foster more innovation with the tech. The took the risk, spent billions of dollars in R&D to bring out this product and they should get credit.
Posted: Nov 7th 2011 5:33PM picxel said
That commercial was so apple. They even used the term "magical". o_o
