This time it’s over. Microsoft announced End production of Azure Kinect Developer Kits. It is a symbolic object of the retired American brand.
At issue is the professional version of Kinect (released in 2019), the consumer version already buried in 2017. However, Microsoft would like to point out that: Kinect’s legacy will live on. The device introduced technologies that are still used in other devices today, such as the HoloLens 2.
Microsoft puts the final nail in Kinect’s coffin
Given that the Redmond company now has other hardware targets, this decision is not surprising. Besides, gesture recognition is outdated. Kinect is therefore definitely a part of the past and leaves a somewhat strange mark on Microsoft’s history.
Renamed Kinect, the Natal project was finally released in 2010 and has yet to prove itself anywhere other than in user-friendly games. Microsoft did it all in 2013 by including it by default on your new Xbox One. The console was later sold as a multimedia hub and Kinect thought of it as a new way to interact with the console. But the mayonnaise didn’t catch on, and eventually Microsoft had to admit failure by offering a console less than a year later. It was 2017, Kinect already has been The product has not been produced for a long time.
But Kinect had meanwhile proven itself in other areas as well, such as in the professional world. A development kit was offered for later purchase. This is the one who saw the production stopped Today.
The Kinect is absolutely dead. A few days after the announcement of the Xbox 360 store closing, another remnant of the August console is disappearing.
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