| vlad321 said: I remember Bill Gates saying that Kinect was not only a Xbox tech but a PC one as well. Gave me a lot of hope, however with its space requirements my hopes quickly fell (it's probably why we havent seen a motion device for the PC yet). This though gives me hope and i might get one when it hits sub $80 or so. |
I had high hopes for Natal based tech compatibility with Win7, even if for nothing more than to play around with as a UI device.
Given the focal length of the lenses Kinect uses and that the design is set up for a living room rather than a desktop (look at the IR projection pattern when viewed through night optic devices; it doesn't start until it is at least 3 feet away from the camera unit), it wouldn't be practical as a desktop input device, not that the same technology couldn't be used in a Win7 compatible desk cam (preferably a lot smaller).
The applications would be different too, so no Kinect Adventures in front of your desktop PC. I'm thinking more along the lines of 3D scanning, voice recognition/voice commands, sign language interpretation, general gesture based user input commands, user facial recognition, etc.
