Microsoft has finished producing motion / speech recognition sensor "Kinect"

It is now clear that we will stop producing the motion / speech recognition sensor terminal "Kinect" sold by Microsoft from 2010. Support will continue in the future.

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This information conveys news on business and designCo.DesignMr. Alex Kiplman, Kinect developer by@ akipman), And those revealed in an interview with Mr. Matthew Lapsen, Xbox Device Marketing.

In 2010, Kinect appeared as a set with Xbox 360 with the reality that "I can operate with gesture and speech recognition without using a controller".

Analysis by users was carried out at once, and Microsoft, which initially showed a negative view on this move, took the form of confirmation, and in 2011 the official software development kit was released.

Kinect - Windows application development
https://developer.microsoft.com/ja-jp/windows/kinect

After that, even after the appearance of Xbox One in 2013 (Japan in 2014) Kinect continued to sell.

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Even outside the game, Kinect showed active in various scenes, such as medical purpose and utilization for disabled people.

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However, in the case of the game of the essence, the number of games that make use of the performance of Kinect is not many and it tapers. Also, being able to purchase Kinect as a standalone also resulted in a distance between the Kinect user and the game.

Microsoft will in 2015Hololens announcedIn some cases, there was no need for Kinect anymore, and it was decided that production was canceled this time. As mentioned earlier, there are many terminals used for medical purposes and so on, so I will be concerned about future treatment, but support seems to be continued.