PrimeSense's Kinect Technology Finds a New Home on the PC

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snakenobi said:

AussieGecko said:

snakenobi said:

AussieGecko said:

I thought MS put a shite load of money into Kinect... how would this be allowed without MS having a bit of the profits?

they just licensed their tech

AND most of the moeny MS put into KINECT is marketing

Wasnt talking about market, I said the product itself

I know but what they are spending on marketing far outstrips what they have spent on kinect hardware itself

and the main tech is from primsense was already ready so MS just had to license it

I love how people always try to downplay Microsofts role in Kinect by saying "oh, they just bought it" when that's far from the truth.  A lot of the software that drives Kinect (including much of the skeletal recognition algorithms) was developed by Microsoft and much of it had been in development for many years before there was a "Project Natal".

Do you have any kind of source on what Microsoft spent on R&D for the device?