WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.
"We built Kinect to revolutionize the way you play games and how you experience entertainment. But along the way, people started using Kinect in ways we never imagined. From helping children with autism, to helping doctors in the operating room, people are taking Kinect beyond games. And that’s what we call the Kinect Effect. "
As Microsoft celebrates the one year anniversary of its Kinect motion sensor gaming product, the company is showcasing the Kinect Effect, highlighting uses beyond gaming.
Microsoft Kinect has been a gaming hit since its release last year- getting even the littlest players moving to the beat. But now the company is promoting new uses for the device- calling it the Kinect Effect. For example, a British hospital is using Kinect for rehabilitation for stroke patients.
It is also being used to work with autistic children to improve language development and social skills. CNET Senior Editor Scott Stein: "This all came I think because of grassroots development. People learned, people got into hacking the Kinect early last year and you started hearing these stories about people figuring out how to use this to put onto a robot, and smartly Microsoft responded by welcoming that and encouraging more development."
That development includes the creation of a Kinect-enabled application to help hospitals create safer operating rooms, allowing surgeons to use gestures and voice to review patient charts-without the need to break the sterile field. Next up, a software development kit just for businesses: Kinect for Windows.
"The SDK that Microsoft is opening next year in 2012 is commercial use so a lot of things you are hearing about now are advertising.
Toyota and Razorfish and others I think are looking at this as sort of intelligent, Minority Report style terminals that will allow you to swipe through things, find out more, talk to it because it also has a pretty advanced audio array of microphones so you could communicate like you can see now on the iPhone on Siri; maybe voice activation could be something that could be used for." Minority Report refers to the futuristic Tom Cruise movie of 2002. And with the future now closer to reality, Microsoft says they already have 200 applicants for the pilot program.
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