RIP Microsoft Kinect

[Dos_Box]

This little snippet slipped quietly by a week or so back - Kinect officially discontinued by Microsoft | Metro News

Strangely I was looking at getting one for my XB1 yesterday as you can use them on some XB1 dance titles my daughter wanted to play with. They can be snapped up for about £20+ on Ebay.

[Marci]

Wonderful little toys if you hook the original Xbox model up to PC or Mac and use OpenKinect + Processing. I use 3 of them for person-tracking across full width of a stage, which then affects visuals being projected onto backdrop. Get 'em scooped up!

(And if you tape over the structured light emitter, and shove them in IR mode, they make rather excellent night vision cameras if you provide an external IR flood)

[DalekSec]

I have one, purely used for Windows Hello now.

[Dos_Box]

Wonderful little toys if you hook the original Xbox model up to PC or Mac and use OpenKinect + Processing. I use 3 of them for person-tracking across full width of a stage, which then affects visuals being projected onto backdrop. Get 'em scooped up!

(And if you tape over the structured light emitter, and shove them in IR mode, they make rather excellent night vision cameras if you provide an external IR flood)

 

Why has 'fun add-on' now turned into 'creepy spy'!

I shall grab one right away, my son will love playing with this!