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Subject: Microsoft welcome kinect hackers
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tedwap 21.02.11 - 10:00pm
Microsoft is to open up its XBox Kinect technology to allow amateur software developers to experiment with it. The company is to release a software development kit in the spring, which will give developers access to the secrets behind the technology. * +

tedwap 21.02.11 - 10:02pm
For now it will only be for personal use, but Microsoft says it will release a commercial version in due course.Kinect, which turns the player's body into a game controller, has been a big hit since it launched last November.It has already captured the imagination of the hacker community, which has been demonstrating various uses for the technology, including 3D photography. * +

tedwap 21.02.11 - 10:03pm
Microsoft is hoping that an army of smarter developers will now find more ways to take Kinect to the next level. As breakthrough technologies like these reach scale, the resulting creativity and invention will open up a whole new world of possibilities for computing, said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer. * +

tedwap 21.02.11 - 10:05pm
The announcement was made during an open day at Microsoft's research centre near Seattle. The company is hoping that the success of Kinect, developed by its own scientists, can give it a greater presence in the home entertainment field. * +

vamezx 21.02.11 - 10:11pm
PC and Kinect = * +

tedwap 21.02.11 - 10:12pm
I heard about the pc - kinect thing too. * +

j.s.1983 21.02.11 - 10:12pm
Guess thats to cover the lack of decent games. * +

baz6 21.02.11 - 10:17pm
what dya mean are too,has been since a day or 2 after release. Looks like ms dont know what to do with it,hence letting everyone have a pop * +

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