Kinect for Windows sensor, which aims to
harness Microsoft's Natural User Interface in a bid to 'revolutionise' computing, is now available in India along with the Software Development Kit (SDK).
The Kinect for Windows sensor is available at Rs 19,990 while the SDK is available for free download at
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/.
Microsoft is hoping that developers and businesses will take advantage of the cutting-edge
features of this motion sensing technology like improved skeletal tracking, face tracking, enhanced speech, seated mode tracking to create innovative applications.
"Across the world, artists, entertainers, retailers, educators and physical therapists are all exploring the Kinect for Windows. For example,
Kinect apps on Xbox 360 are helping the visually challenged by creating a belt to help them navigate better, by making the classroom experience truly innovative by spreading a social message to the children and by creating tools for the physically challenged for better use of the computer and internet," said a Microsoft release.
"This is just the beginning. This proliferation of great new content for Kinect, which we call the Kinect Effect, will expand even further with our commercial release of Kinect for Windows," said Anshu Mor, Business Group Lead - Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.
"We are excited around the new possibilities that Kinect will enable on the Windows platform, and the many different ways each Kinect for Windows based scenario could enrich lives and make using technology more natural for everyone."
Kinect for Windows will include Studio - a tool which allows developers to record and play back Kinect data; Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) to guide developers on best practices for the creation of Natural User Interfaces and the Face Tracking SDK, which provides a real-time 3D mesh of facial features tracking the head position, location of eyebrows and the shape of the mouth.
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