Microsoft has officially ended production of its Kinect hardware

[John Elden Ring]

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer produce any more Kinect hardware.

A new post on the company’s official mixed reality blog states that it has decided to end production of its latest iteration, the Azure Kinect, and will instead provide the technology to third-party partners so they can sell their own alternatives.

Although the Kinect name is best known among video game players as peripherals for the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One, Microsoft has continued to make a variety of different motion-sensing input devices using the Kinect name.

Its most recent, Azure Kinect, was released in 2019 and was designed mainly for enterprise software and AI use. With a 12 megapixel camera, a time-of-flight depth senser and seven microphones, it’s significantly more advanced than the Xbox One version of Kinect.

 

[Sircaw]

Where it belongs

 

[Box]

 

[Kokoloko]

They were still producing these?

 

[flaccidsnake]

All I need is one mic.

 

[Kokoloko]

All I need is one mic.