>>>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12707160
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>>>One interesting aspect is that MS was initially trying to pull an Apple with the Kinect, and lock it in to the XBox. The FOSS community offered a bounty for someone to create a driver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#Open_source_drivers . MS later claimed it was a "misunderstanding" if anyone thought the device was closed.
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>>>So, once again, MS got prodded to do something it should have done in the first place. Over time they'll sell more of them, and they'll probably get feel-good stories about how Kinects are being used to help disabled people etc.
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>>Over here were quite a few stories on techies trying to get Kinetics to be used as an input device like in that Cruise movie
>>as well as glowing praises for best "usability" of all current input devices. Maybe that is the reason they went after the gaaming crowd with WP7 - create a market to sell more Kinetics in ;-))
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>"Minority Report"?

Yupp. that was it... adding it to xPad/Phone devices might eliminate fruitless searches for rodents...