The Kinect as-is really had no future. It was too limited for gaming and too clunky for anything else. I do think the tech is great - if not amazing, but only

The Kinect as-is really had no future. It was too limited for gaming and too clunky for anything else. I do think the tech is great - if not amazing, but only if its part of a larger pie. MS's Hololens with a Kinect reading your body/hands/face/fingers makes a lot of sense to me. AR that's aware of your every move can be big, perhaps even a game changer in some/many industries. At my desktop, I really don't need anything like Kinect. I can type on a keyboard or use a mouse. Or swipe on the nearby screen. Gesturing is clunky in those scenarios. Now put an AR headset on my face and set me loose. Now I need some kind of remote input that I don't carry around. That's something AR needs and MS has a major lead here.