Friday, January 27th 2012
Microsoft Kinect Technology En Route Laptops
It's no secret that Microsoft's proprietary gesture-recognition technology it originally launched on the Xbox platform, is making its way to PCs, as software developers have access to Kinect for Windows SDK. What's interesting, though, is that soon people won't need a creepy-looking three-eyed device facing them to recognize their gestures. They will, instead, be embedded into notebook display bezels the way web-cameras are.
The Daily reports that it has seen a pair of notebook prototypes that appeared to have been "ASUS notebooks running Windows 8," with their web-cam replaced by a row of optical sensors on top of the screen, and a row of LEDs said to be at the bottom. Some might think that this is ASUS' very own Kinect-alternative WAVI Xtion, but The Daily also confirmed with a source at Microsoft that these prototypes are indeed of notebooks that are Kinect-enabled.
Sources:
The Daily, Engadget
The Daily reports that it has seen a pair of notebook prototypes that appeared to have been "ASUS notebooks running Windows 8," with their web-cam replaced by a row of optical sensors on top of the screen, and a row of LEDs said to be at the bottom. Some might think that this is ASUS' very own Kinect-alternative WAVI Xtion, but The Daily also confirmed with a source at Microsoft that these prototypes are indeed of notebooks that are Kinect-enabled.
9 Comments on Microsoft Kinect Technology En Route Laptops
However, found kinect to be annoying to set up (for each person of different height) and games to be lacklustre and too full of menu screens. And the kinect features are just not engaging somehow. Yes, kinect made me spend EUR 300 on hardware and EUR 200 on games and leads. So MS "sold well". But it has not lived up to expectations and I am disappointed.
I'm not at all excited about kinect on PC. I think it will appeal more to "first time buyers"... and I doubt anyone with kinect experience on the xbox360 is losing any sleep in anticipation.
A nice idea though you would look like a complete pillock depending what the signals are and where you are logging in. Id totally laugh my nuts off if a guy on the train was using 'hand guestures to loggin to his laptop.
Like when you write texts, it feels like you always have to shift your hands positions in order to move the mouse (the amazing small stick some laptops have solves a bit of that though). If they work out like a point and click system with it as well it would be awesome..
Its the same as setting your bank pin number as 0000 or 1234, people are obviously gonna try the obvious ones first.
:laugh: Just kiddin'. I don't know about gesture logons, as even the pattern unlock on Android is so incredibly easy to copy after casually glancing over at someone's phone.