Microsoft Kinect Hackathon proves endless possibilities for the motion tracker

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Published onApril 16, 2015

published onApril 16, 2015

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Recently Microsoft made the decision to consolidate the company’s Kinect hardware. Developers are now able to use an adaptor to help essentially with development cost. In addition to cost saving measures, Microsoft’s upcoming One-operating system play is also another enticement for Kinect developers. The idea of near future Kinect-based development that will expand beyond the Xbox One and niche business cases is becoming more and more a reality every day. The Kinect faithful are trusting that these new developments from Microsoft will finally spur the promised future the Kinect offered back in its initial release.

A collection of developers in London, this year did their best to help build that aspirational future we all saw from the Kinect so many years ago. Kinect Hack for Windows, the 36 hour coding endurance marathon, took place back on March 21 and 22. Coders focused on a day and half hackathon of the Kinect v2 sensor. More than 80 developers were gathered from the UK, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Mexico to spend a weekend creating some of most unique apps, games, tools, and resources for the Kinect. The event was by all accounts a success with large sales of ‘spectators’ tickets and a long list of new hacks and potential projects for the Kinect.

While the event was designed as a hackathon and not a direct competition, event organizer Dan Thomas ofMoov2with the help of USKinectteam, did put together prizes for more than two dozenKinectdevelopers. Check out the full list of Kinect projects created during the hackaton over at the source link below.Hopefully, we’ll see some of these make their way into our living rooms, Windows PCs, mobile phones and IoT soon, and hopefully they will entice even more developers to create new solutions with the Kinect sensor.

Kareem Anderson

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He is always on the lookout for everything new about Microsoft, focusing on making easy-to-understand content and breaking down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security.

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

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