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New Delhi, 7th August, 2012—Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has announced the availability of Kinect for Windows sensor and Software Development Kit (SDK) in India. Kinect for Windows harnesses the power of Microsoft Natural User Interface and has the potential to completely revolutionize products and processes in the home, at work and at public places. Aimed at developing innovative applications, developers and businesses can take advantage of several innovation features including improved skeletal tracking, face tracking, enhanced speech and seated mode tracking.
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The India launch is an opportunity for developers to explore and tinker with this new technology, find out what it can do, dream up interesting scenarios, and push the limits of what’s possible. The Kinect for Windows sensor is available at INR 19990 and consumers can visit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/purchase/resellers.aspx to call the sales office for their zone to place an order. The SDK is available for free download at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/.
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Across the world, artists, entertainers, retailers, educators and physical therapists are all exploring the Kinect for Windows. For example, Kinect apps on Xbox 360 are helping the visually challenged by creating a belt to help them navigate better, by making the classroom experience truly innovative by spreading a social message to the children and by creating tools for the physically challenged for better use of the computer and internet. These are just few of the inventions Indian entrepreneurs and students have created using Kinect technology in recent months.
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Commenting on the rollout of Kinect for Windows, Anshu Mor, Business Group Lead—Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd said, “The incredible amount of innovation on Kinect for Xbox 360 this past year shows the potential for Kinect as a platform for developers and businesses to experiment, explore and create new offerings. Furthermore, this is just the beginning. This proliferation of great new content for Kinect, which we call the Kinect Effect, will expand even further with our commercial release of Kinect for Windows. We are excited around the new possibilities that Kinect will enable on the Windows platform, and the many different ways each Kinect for Windows based scenario could enrich lives and make using technology more natural for everyone.”
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With Kinect for Windows, a future in which devices work more naturally and intelligently to improve our lives is within our reach as the developer community and business customers re-imagine the future of computing using the power of Kinect.
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Quick Facts about Kinect for Windows
- Studio, the new tool which allows developers to record and play back Kinect data, dramatically shortening and simplifying the development lifecycle of a Kinect application.
- A set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) to guide developers on best practices for the creation of Natural User Interfaces using Kinect.
- The Face Tracking SDK, which provides a real-time 3D mesh of facial features—tracking the head position, location of eyebrows and the shape of the mouth.
- Seated Skeletal Tracking which tracks a 10-joint head/shoulders/arms skeleton, ignoring the leg and hip joints. It also tracks head/shoulders/arms when a person is standing. This makes it possible to create applications that are optimized for seated scenarios or standing scenarios in which the lower body isn’t visible to the sensor
- Skeletal Tracking is supported in Near Mode, including both Default and Seated tracking modes. This allows businesses and developers to create applications that track skeletal movement at closer proximity,
- Comes with performance and data quality enhancements, which improve the experience of all Kinect for Windows applications using the RGB camera and depth data to be mapped together
- New capabilities to enable avatar animation scenarios, which makes it easier for developers to build applications that control a 3D avatar, such as Kinect Sports.
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About Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently has offices in 10 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune. More information about Microsoft is available at www.microsoft.com/india/msindia.
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