The Kinect Effect - What is your next Vision?

This video howing how people are using the Kinect device in a broad range of areas beyond gaming. In the year since Microsoft launched Kinect for Xbox 360, its uses have expanded to include helping stroke victims recover and children learn new skills.

Celebrating the first anniversary of Kinect's launch, Microsoft has announced that its commercial Kinect for Windows program will officially launch "early next year." While the official software development kit has been in beta since June and hackers have been playing with Kinect since it launched, this'll bring the big shiny official push for Kinect on Windows.

Though Microsoft focuses on the non-gaming applications for Kinect on Windows in today's announcement, it'll surely bring new and exciting opportunities to wave your arms at video games on your PC too.

Microsoft says that its commercial pilot program for Kinect on Windows has drawn interest from fields including healthcare, education, and art, receiving over 200 applications.

Microsoft promised an official Windows SDK for Kinect on: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/default.aspx

ABOUT THIS TECHNOLOGY
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The revolutionary Kinect for Xbox 360 brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways. Giving Xbox 360 owners the ability to interface with their system without ever having to pick up a controller, Kinect removes the last barrier between you and the experiences you love.
Simply step in front of the sensor and Kinect recognizes you and responds to your gestures. See a ball? Kick it. Want to watch a movie? Say "Xbox, play." Want to join a friend? Whether they are across the room, across the street or across the globe, connecting in a whole new way is as easy as a wave of your hand.
The base package of Kinect includes a free copy of the exhilarating game Kinect Adventures. With Kinect Adventures, you are the controller as you jump, dodge and kick your way through exciting adventures set in a variety of exotic locations.

Xbox 360 Kinect
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GENRE: Hardware
RELEASE DATE(S):
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PLATFORM: Xbox 360 Kinect
EXCLUSIVELY ON: Xbox 360 Kinect
WEBSITE: http://www.Xbox.com/kinect
AVAILABLE @ AMAZON: http://amzn.to/srrQmN

PUBLISHER: Microsoft
DEVELOPER: Microsoft Game Studios
ESRB: n/a

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[DreadedEvil1987]

are you serious youtube? i have to watch a 30 second ad to watch a commercial?

[Carcrafter7]

I just read the comments and it seems I am not the only one who thought the song sounded like Where is my mind by The Pixies.

[TheChubbybird]

Reminds me of an apple commercial

[0neofthem]

@ibupro50 The song is part of the reason why this ad is so great.

[DeMart501]

Dear Microsoft, thank you for making the Kinect so versatile and able to broaden horizons that much more, but can you please give us an MP3 of that amazing rendition of "Where Is My Mind"?

[caapek]

0:29 .. R U C that handsome guy who sitting behind the last desk on the left of the girl?? That´s me! :D

[jjtheslayer69]

@Carcrafter7 ha me too

[NightwingRogue]

This is probably me being a fanboy but this video makes me teary eyed from joy just knowing this is the generation I'm in. We have this piece of tech that's advancing so many things in so many fields, and I ask what they ask. What are we going to come up with next?

[Tampatec]

i want Kinect Ironman free roam game that you can fly if you strike the ironman flying pose & say Jarvis Arm missiles, lock target, Fire ! then fly up to a F16 then Mike Tyson uppercut it. Thumbs up if you would buy that game. it should have Ultron in it trying to hack and take over.

[chiwy8]

Even this is a better love story than Twilight.

[DrJLiver]

too bad kinect doesnt work unless youre 20 fucking feet away...

[MrJoel397]

@cattac61 It doesn't it's normal corporate over-advertising.