Microsoft now develops its own sensor technology. The company this weekend confirmed it had bought 3D sensor firm, PrimeSense, whose technology was used inside early models of the Kinect. Recent acquisitions suggest Apple is, at the very least, wary of the potential threat from Kinect-like controllers. In the meantime, rivals such as Leap Motion have released gesture controllers for Windows PCs, albeit with limited success.
Microsoft released the Windows SDK for Kinect in February 2012, but despite many interesting research projects, we've yet to see a PC ship with a Kinect sensor.
And all the things have to come together.' 'So that's why you've seen us doing things with Kinect, with gesture. 'There will be another inflection point and it's going to come from the hardware input model,' she said. A perfect storm of home workers loving their freedom and attackers upping their game has cultivated a dangerous cyber landscape.
Larson-Green replied that 'hardware innovation' would be the key for Microsoft, hinting at future developments with Kinect's voice-recognition system.
Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference, Microsoft's head of devices, Julie Larson-Green, was asked how the company would counteract Apple's 'huge, entrenched ecosystem'. Microsoft claims its Kinect motion controller will help itcompete against Apple's mature ecosystem.
