Microsoft adapted Kinect to PC for the arrival of Windows 8

Kinect, the motion sensor and voice that Microsoft released for Xbox 360 for just over a year, prepares his jump to the PC. The company is working on adapting the peripheral to PC to complete the new features will be in Windows 8.

The arrival of the new operating system will serve to kick-start the PC Kinect. The Redmond company has confirmed it will release an official version for PC of its revolutionary technology, which served to show a new way of playing with game consoles and soon began to adapt in other fields experimentally. The projects were multiple laboratories and universities. Now its benefits will be transferred to PC.

While the Xbox 360 game catalog employing the device is still limited and not just to convince users that make more intensive use of the console, Kinect reuse in other fields has been multiple because of its ability to detect movement, the user's voice and even his face. Now your hardware and firmware will be optimized to take another way to control PC computer.

The new version of PC enhance the work at short distances, since the device will be able to recognize objects without losing accuracy at a distance of 50 centimeters, something that does not happen with the current version of Kinect. It also connects to the computer via a USB cable shorter and avoid incompatibilities with other USB devices thanks to the inclusion of a dongle.

                  
Microsoft sees the launch of Windows 8 at the appropriate time to bring the computer peripheral, but is likely to take some time since the launch of the platform until the arrival of this version Kinect PC. The new interface with which Metro will this version of its popular operating system will undergo an evolution with the release of peripheral, as it inevitably think of a computer control without using the mouse. The voice control or gestural form will be new ways of managing everything that happens in our team, something that you dream for years.