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[Draugoth]

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.

 

[bitbydeath]

End of an error

 

[adamsapple]

literally the embodiment of "Oh no, anyway" meme.

 

[Zheph]

 

[The Fuzz damn you!]

They were still making them?
I am 100% certain that nobody in this thread knew that.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Portugeezer]

MS won't be able to recover from this news!

 

[CherryFalls]

Kinects marketing was huge, and was the biggest load of BS ive ever seen in a marketing campaign, it was quite remarkable

 

[Sybrix]

The biggest failure in gaming?

 

[reinking]

Fuck all of y'all. I liked the Kinect.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Spare a thought for Skittles.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[spons]

It failed, even when its blast processing was used for AI and other purposes. Rest in peace.

 

[IC3M@N FX]

The biggest failure in gaming?

Yes otherwise it would still be in their ecosystem and with their customers. As is so often the case when there is no killer app, it fails in the mass market!

 

[Gudji]

Wait they were still making those?

 

[Sybrix]

 

[shamoomoo]

So it didn't Kinect with the gaming audience?

 

[SmokedMeat]

The one Kinect game I thought actually delivered a new experience.

 

[Mr Moose]

I want one for the skeletal tracking stuff for my PC.

 

[Robb]

I'd have thought they ended it years ago.

 

[adamsapple]

I'd have thought they ended it years ago.

For games yes, but I think they were still producing them for the hololens stuff

 

[Holammer]

They sold them until now?
Some indie devs & artists do use 'em as a poor man's motion capture solution. So maybe there was a niche market.

 

[salva]

RIP

 

[Unknown?]

And yet he did better than his successor!

 

[AJUMP23]

Pouring one out.

 

[ahtlas7]

Oh! NmilO!

 

[existensmaximum]

"You are the controller!"

Missed by nobody.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

I still play kinect games with my nephew.

 

[Roufianos]

Was there anything more dislikeable than MS during the Kinect days?

 

[alienator]

 

[consoul]

Ever seen the bottom of an avatar's foot?
Well BAM! there it is.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Fuck all of y'all. I liked the Kinect.

There were a few games on it I liked too. Sadly, not enough.

 

[Blood Borne]

 

[ReBurn]

They were still making them?
I am 100% certain that nobody in this thread knew that.

 

[Naked Lunch]

I thought they ended it a decade ago.

 

[Yoshichan]

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF MILO??? HOW WILL HE FIND NEW FRIENDS NOW???

 

[RagnarokIV]

I had to kill Kinect because it made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake.

 

[VulcanRaven]

The biggest failure in gaming?

I'm pretty sure it sold well on 360.

 

[Magic Carpet]

We used the Kinect as a video chat back in the molden times.

 

[Skifi28]

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF MILO??? HOW WILL HE FIND NEW FRIENDS NOW???

Plenty of friends to be had where he's going.

 

[Krathoon]

I collected some Kinect games a while back. I even got the Star War game and the Michael Jackson one.

Oh yeah. The Black Eyed Peas one too.

I got a 360 and a Kinect hooked up. They made it a pain in the ass to hook up the Xbox One version.

I got the adapter that lets you use it closer to the TV.

The technology is kind of janky. It loses your location sometimes.

What is annoying is that you can't hook up the newer Kinect to the 360.

 

[Fbh]

But does Molyneux still have an office full of pictures of little boys?

 

[Elder Legend]

I thought they ended production on this trash years ago? Lol. What a fucking shit show that was.

 

[Zuzu]

Nice work Microsoft! Now I want to see this next headline:

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

 

[Fermbiz]

 

[MrA]

The biggest failure in gaming?

kinnect sold something 30 million units and gave the 360 a second lease on life

 

[BlackTron]

kinnect sold something 30 million units and gave the 360 a second lease on life

They modeled Wii, which was to ensare people in a gimmick. It got people to buy in, but didn't have lasting legs. They would have been better off sticking to what they knew and were doing, which was pumping games on credible hardware with a good controller. Kinect was beginning of the end for Xbox being good.

 

[Kamina]

Good

 

[Hudo]

End of an error

It's actually quite a cool product for point cloud stuff. Cheaper than buying a whole Lidar setup.

 

[MrA]

They modeled Wii, which was to ensare people in a gimmick. It got people to buy in, but didn't have lasting legs. They would have been better off sticking to what they knew and were doing, which was pumping games on credible hardware with a good controller. Kinect was beginning of the end for Xbox being good.

that far from constituting the worst failure in gaming.