While hackers has been having their way with the Kinect at the PC for a long, long term , Microsoft itself has just recently embraced this kind of behavior. First it was with an official SDK after which, soon after, a follow-up letting things go commercial. We’ve been eagerly awaiting Office integration — imagine lazily waving away every boring PPT that lands to your inbox — but in addition struggling to determine just how the sort of device would fit on our cluttered desks. Microsoft is now promising a computer-specific version to release sometime in 2012, ready to concentrate on objects as close as 50cm from the lens — quite an improvement given our current Kinect seems unhappy if we’re standing anywhere within five feet. The hardware is usually said to be “optimized” for desktop use and the USB cable shortened, but we’re still at nighttime about how exactly it should look. Might we recommend Keepon integration ?
NPD: Apple grabs over 1 / 4 of the mobile PC business in Q4 2011 (including iPads), HP tops with laptops
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