Microsoft’s motion-sensing besturingscontroller Kinect as of February 1, to Windows did Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer announced at CES. The to the OS custom device in the US to order it for $ 250.
Microsoft released in mid-June last year, the sdk of Kinect, and a few months later confirmed the company that there are special Kinect hardware for Windows would come up. At CES, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft now has a launch date: 1 February.
The “Kinect Sensor for Windows” from Amazon pre-order for a price of 249,99 dollars. This makes the controller a lot more expensive than that for the Xbox: which will cost $ 120 in the US. Kinect Sensor for Windows works with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview, as long as this, but the sdk run. On the packaging it says that the Windows version is not compatible with the Xbox.
There are some differences between the Windows and the Xbox-version. So the Windows Kinect accurately at a distance of 50cm and almost precisely at 40cm, while the Kinect version 1.8 metres is recommended that the distance of the person or the object to the sensor. Also is the usb cable for the Windows version is shorter and is of a dongle.
Ballmer was also known that there are now 66 million Xbox 360 consoles sold and that there are 40 million Xbox Live members.
