Microsoft Kinect took off a last year and the company has many reasons to celebrate for their product. Here’s a very cool video they have cooked for their AI product, Kinect.
Microsoft unveiled a breakthrough product to the market last year, same day, called the Kinect. A device that could sense/recognize your movements and respond according to it. Kinect has gone far more than just gaming and has even gone to the extent of creating a MI kind of UI interactions with the computers.
Kinect was purchased by millions of users and was considered the most fast sold product of the year. The sales charts topped, developers popped in, and hackers made the MI interface happen. This fastest selling gadget of all time is now One year old and the company wants to celebrate the immense success with a video.
But the Ad that you are about to view might look like an Apple Ad. May be the company got ‘inspired’ with Apple’s Ads? Who knows. Here’s the video from Microsoft for it’s baby, Kinect.
The video shows the uses the Kinect has. Both weird and wonderful uses though, the powerful platform, the real world use like helping children during physiotherapy, etc. Kinect is such an amazing product which has brought more than what it has been designed for in the users’ hands.
Very soon, Windows 8 is going to be having a deep integration with Kinect and may be the size of Kinect may reduce. Imaging presenting your powerpoint slides the MI way. How would you ever miss a client for that presentation? What do you think is the future of Kinect? Let everyone know in comments!
You can also follow the Kinect thread on this blog. There are a lot of interesting hacks on using Kinect, posted here.