The Kinect SDK comes to PCs in Autumn

You already made-for-the-Xbox 360 Kinect be used in various projects in the PC (and beyond), but this autumn and will be "officially" through the SDK for PCs that will sell Microsoft.

The Kinect originally released as "motion controller for Xbox 360» (albeit with the same description, probably over simplifying the 'can do' this, say, «gadget»). Almost immediately, however, "teasers" from around the world rushed to make it "compatible" with PCs, Mac, and even other consoles ... (!), And really filled the Internet with amazing projects - which, in most cases were not ... nothing to do with the original purpose of construction of Kinect, the "playing games with winks. All this, however, made a point 'informal' and, initially, to «reverse engineered», «informal» drivers.

The Microsoft could not do nothing, and there initially tried to prevent the use of Kinect for any purpose other than "planned", stating impressed by the uses that had found its everywhere ... "teasers" for the gadget, began to supports these efforts. First movement, an "official» drivers for Kinect, the co-author of Kinect, PrimeSense. Second, we will see this fall, offering an SDK for developing applications that exploit the Kinect in PCs.

This will facilitate the development of more and more sophisticated applications, and will no longer mean "formal" support Kinect in PCs - something Microsoft has promised long ago, from when he saw the acceptance of Kinect the majority of the world .