That means the technology inside Microsoft's latest peripheral will soon find its way into a lot more devices, the first of which is coming from Asus.
After stopping by the PrimeSense booth earlier today, we learned that there's been a great deal of interest from OEMs looking to license the depth sensing technology for their own motion-controlled products. The Asus WAVI Xtion — which we covered earlier this week, and still don't know how to pronounce — is one of the first.
We've done technical deep dives into the Kinect sensor in the past, and we were curious as to how OEM "Kinects" will differ from Microsoft's motion peripheral. A PrimeSense representative was quick to point out that Microsoft's implantation has a custom, six microphone array, compared to PrimeSense's two. The depth sensor, meanwhile, are capable of sensing objects at a full 640x480, despite Microsoft's choice to operate at a lower resolutions. Also, in Asus' case, a decision was made to exclude the RGB camera, which wasn't necessary for the company's uses
Does this mean we're soon to see a flood of Kinect-style clones on the market? Probably not. The software experience will no doubt prove just as important as the hardware inside, and Microsoft's implementation will be hard to beat. But that's not to say OEMs won't try. Asus is just the first, but more motion-controlled devices with PrimeSense technology are just a matter of time.
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Lets hope these OEM versions turn out as good as some of the hacked kinect's have
