The company is ”pleased to deliver this, and more, at launch.” Companies and developers are involved in the Kinect for Windows pilot program, with a full launch due in early 2012.
Microsoft has also revised ”certain hardware components” for optimisation and developed firmware tweaks to ”better enable PC-centric scenarios” for Kinect for Windows.
”The new hardware delivers features and functionality that Windows developers and Microsoft customers have been asking for,” said Craig Eisler, general manager of Kinect for Windows. The package includes a shorten USB cable to ”ensure reliability across a broad range of computers”, and a dongle to ”improve coexistence with other USB peripherals”. Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows launches in early 2012 for companies looking to commercially exploit it.
