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Remember when Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft would officially support Kinect on PC “in the right time”? Well, apparently he probably could've waited another couple seconds to add “right about... now.”
According to WinRumors, Microsoft's currently connecting the dots on an SDK and official drivers for Kinect on PC. Barring any unforeseen stumbling blocks, both pieces of the puzzle will be available for normal folk who haven't hacked their Kinect to pieces “in the coming months.”
More specifically, the drivers will be distributed as part of a beta program, and general Kinect support may soon appear in a Community Technical Preview of Microsoft's XNA development tools.
In other words, the wait's nearly at an end. Soon, you'll have a tiny, slowly evolving robo-eye watching your every action in your office as well as your living room. And before you know it, there'll only be one thing those seemingly harmless little cameras voluntarily recognize: a blood-spattered white flag.
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Caboose
January 18, 2011 at 10:29am
I just got my Kinect from Telus on Saturday! I can't wait to give it a spin. It has promise!
TechLarry
January 18, 2011 at 8:05am
I fully expected MS to go into "Full Console Lockdown Mode" with this because people were getting too creative with it.
I'm glad I was wrong. Suprised, but glad.
