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Mr.Metralha on 13 November 2010
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greenmedic88 said:
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.

It would be awesome to have eye tracking from a Kinect PC unit. since it would work on a smaller scale, it would be precise enough to know where are you looking at. And that would be the shit for FPS games. No longer the camera movement is attached to aiming.