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Microsoft is an exclusive controller-free motion sensor add-on peripheral for that allows users to play the games using own body, literally, without any controller. Though Kinect is currently designed for Xbox 360, Microsoft has plan to link Kinect for use on next version of Windows operating system, rumored to be Windows 8, but hackers who can’t wait have managed to hack the Kinect and developed open source device driver with SDK or API for Kinect. The device driver for Kinect, a low-level hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific software that acts as a translator between a hardware device and the applications or operating systems that use it, allows Kinect to be installed as a device and interact with higher level computer programs. As such, Kinect can be used on PCs and other devices to take advantage of the color and depth (RGB-D) sensing camera, accelerometer and microphones on Kinect, or control the rotating and tilting motor. The benefits are wide, as Kinect can potentially applies to areas such as robotics, virtual multi-touch, HCI, educational, surveillance, motion capture, people or object tracing, and etc.
The open source Kinect device driver is now been published as OpenKinect or libfreenect, first developed by Hector Martin. Actually, the first video demo of Kinect working on Windows 7 was published by NUI Group (AlexP), which has also published separate Windows Kinect driver as CL NUI Platform. OpenKinect drivers include all code necessary to activate, initialize, and communicate data with the Kinect hardware. OpenKinect is cross-platform and run on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
The drivers will expose an API for C/C and managed code (C#). Download OpenKinect drivers pre-compiled binary for Linux, Windows (both x86 32-bit and x64 64-bit version)and Mac OS X platform from and source code from. OpenKinect (libfreenect) unofficial port with pre-compiled binaries for Mac OS X and Windows is also available from.
CL NUI Platform consists of an SDK, API and a stable driver for Microsoft Kinect hardware (Xbox NUI Audio, NUI Camera, NUI Motor and Accelerometer) devices on Windows machines. It also comes with a sample WPF application – CL NUI Device Test, which allows users to control the cameras, move up or down the motor or accelerometer and change the color of LED. Download CL NUI Platform installer from and the. Kinect open source driver demo Video demonstrating Kinect NUI Motor device controlled from Window 7 with real time accelerometer data displayed.
Kinect Color and Depth Cameras on Windows 7 Color and 3D Depth Sensing with Kinect.
Advertisement Microsoft has discontinued the Kinect Adapter, effectively killing the already-pretty-dead Kinect peripheral. The Kinect Adapter is the USB accessory required to connect a Kinect to the Xbox One S, Xbox One X, or a Windows PC. So if you want one, you had better buy one while stocks last. The Kinect was originally released in 2010 as Microsoft’s answer to the Wii motion controls.
Microsoft believed in the technology enough to bundle it with the Xbox One when it first arrived in 2013. However, in October 2017 Microsoft has stopped making the Kinect, the gaming accessory that looked, at one point, like it might represent the future of gaming. Because gamers have moved onto bigger and better things. And now it’s Game Over. Game Over for the Kinect Adapter Months after discontinuing the Kinect Microsoft has stopped manufacturing the Kinect Adapter as well. This is required to connect a Kinect up to anything other than the Xbox Ones that have the proprietary port built into the console itself.
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Including the Xbox One S and Xbox One X. After speculation due to stock shortages, a Microsoft spokesperson told, “After careful consideration, we decided to stop manufacturing the Xbox Kinect Adapter to focus attention on launching new, higher fan-requested gaming accessories across Xbox One and Windows 10.” Not happy I have to pay $250+ for an adapter for my — Bobby Bowcut (@Pebster49) There are still some places selling the Kinect Adapter, but most people will have to resort to buying used on eBay. And paying the exorbitant prices now being charged for the accessories. The prices are shocking considering the Kinect Adapter was being given away for free for months. Forget Kinect, Buy a VR Headset This shouldn’t come as any great surprise to anyone. Once Microsoft decided to kill the Kinect it was only a matter of time before the Kinect Adapter followed.
However, it’s still a wretched end for an innovative device that many people enjoyed using. I blame Looking to play games in a new dimension?
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Do you own a Kinect? Do you still use it? If so, how often? Do you understand Microsoft’s decision to kill the Kinect and the Kinect Adapter? Or do you think Microsoft should have plowed more resources into this innovative technology?
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