Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor | IEEE Spectrum

by John Payne

24 May 2013

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“[Earlier this week], Microsoft held an event to announce its brand new Kinect sensor, and … Uh … something else that we can’t remember offhand, so it must not be that important. If you’ve hung around here long enough, you’ve probably noticed that Kinect sensors are on all kinds of robots nowadays, because they’re inexpensive and pretty darn awesome. Plus, since so many people have them, there’s a huge community that encourages ease of use.”

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