Microsoft has announced the availability of Kinect for Windows sensor and Software Development Kit (SDK) in India. Aimed at developing innovative applications, developers and businesses can take advantage of several innovation features including improved skeletal tracking, face tracking, enhanced speech, seated mode tracking.
The India launch is an opportunity for developers to explore and tinker with this new technology, find out what it can do, dream up interesting scenarios, and push the limits of what’s possible. The Kinect for Windows sensor is available at Rs. 19,990.
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. These are just a few of the inventions Indian entrepreneurs and students have created using Kinect technology in recent months.
Commenting on the rollout of Kinect for Windows, Anshu Mor, Business Group Lead – Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd said “The incredible amount of innovation on Kinect for Xbox 360 this past year shows the potential for Kinect as a platform for developers and businesses to experiment, explore and create new offerings. Furthermore, 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. 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.”
With Kinect for Windows, a future in which devices work more naturally and intelligently to improve our lives is within our reach as the developer community and business customers re-imagine the future of computing using the power of Kinect.
