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Asus working on Kinect laptop, compatible with Windows 8
- r00fus 15y agoSo the panopticon gains new eyes... Is it just me that covers my laptop's webcam during use? (I use tape+microfiber so I can use the webcam by unpeeling for the rare times I need it)
- lunarscape 15y agoNo. You're not the only one and, contrary to what detractors will say, it's far from paranoid. As an example- a friend of mine was wondering why it would occasionally catch his webcam light flash. I dug around and found Prey installed, clearly taking shots at regular intervals.
- moylan 15y agoi use a bandaid with one side of the sticky tab cut off. it allows the padded part to fall in front of the camera when i open the laptop and if placed carefully can be flipped up when the camera is needed. i have an olpc and the camera and microphone on that cannot be activated without turning on the leds beside them. wish this idea was more prevalent.
- togasystems 15y agoKinect would work well on large multi-display systems. I think the laptop is too small of a device for the motion capture to be effective.
- Qworg 15y agoThe new Kinect hardware has a "near mode" and there's been discussions of adding upper body skeleton tracking, as well as gesture recognition.
- tom_b 15y agoAnyone have any insight to why the article says the Kinect for Windows will be $250 vs the $150 regular prices of Kinect for the XBox?
- cooldeal 15y agoBecause MS subsidizes the Kinect for XBox and makes back that money whenever the buyer buys Kinect games. MS gets no such cut of Windows programs that's why the real hardware cost is reflected.
- nitrogen 15y agoI have a hard time believing that they're subsidizing it by a full $100. The ASUS Xtion Pro Live sells for $200, presumably at a profit, and the only feature difference I can see between that and the Kinect is that the Kinect has two more microphones and built-in AEC. On the other hand, maybe two mics and audio processing really does add $50 to the cost.
- Qworg 15y agoMS also has to fund the Kinect SDK team and Microsoft Research that develops new applications for the Kinect. Examples include Kinect Fusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGhaggn3cQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGhaggn3cQ) and the Holodesk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHL5tJ9ja_w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHL5tJ9ja_w).
- icey 15y agoIf I had to guess, I would say it's because early adopters are willing to pay more for novelty. Then 6 months later it allows retailers to put it "on sale" for the same price as the regular Kinect.
- nitrogen 15y agoASUS is a direct licensee from PrimeSense for their depth sensing technology for the ASUS Xtion/Xtion Pro. I wonder whether there's a difference between that hardware and the Kinect-branded system that's going into this laptop. http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3397 http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3...