{"id":22055,"date":"2012-01-10T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=22055"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:53:44","slug":"kinect-for-windows-out-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kinect-for-windows-out-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinect for Windows out next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s hugely successful motion sensor technology <strong>Kinect<\/strong> is being released for Windows on February 1st. This will allow Windows 7 (and later Windows 8) users to interact with PCs without a keyboard or mouse.<\/p>\n<p>As well as motion control, Kinect for Windows also includes voice control, which could make Windows 8 a really interesting and flexible operating system. Microsoft&#8217;s <strong>Kinect for Windows SDK<\/strong> for developers has been available for a couple of months now, so developers can already get stuck into experimenting with Kinect integration into apps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22056\" title=\"Kinect for Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/01\/kin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/01\/kin1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/01\/kin1-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am excited about the possibilities for Kinect for Windows &#8211; in recent years Apple&#8217;s excellent trackpads have been my favorite navigation tools, but I can imagine Windows 8 with motion control being fantastic. Using gesture controls on an office desktop would be really comfortable as a replacement for a mouse if it&#8217;s precise enough &#8211; for me motion control on a desktop makes much more sense than touchscreens, which are better used on portable devices.<\/p>\n<p>With Kinect for Windows, 2012 has got off to a great start for PC users, and the potential for new software is huge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s hugely successful motion sensor technology Kinect is being released for Windows on February 1st. This will allow Windows 7 (and later Windows 8) users to interact with PCs without a keyboard or mouse. As well as motion control, Kinect for Windows also includes voice control, which could make Windows 8 a really interesting and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kinect-for-windows-out-next-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kinect for Windows out next month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-22055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333954,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055\/revisions\/333954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=22055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}