General availability of the new PC Kinect is slated for summer this year.



From Hexus:

As mentioned in the intro some early demos of what the Kinect for Windows v2 will be capable of have been recently published on the official blog. As well as the quirky face-swapping demo, earlier in the month an "advanced technology group at Razorfish," put together a Unity powered soccer game with 3D soccer avatars controlled by the player's full body movements.

Razorfish developer James Ashley put an important point forward about the new Kinect; that it will be a very cheap device for what it is capable of. "It has a much higher resolution than some standard time-of-flight cameras currently selling for $8,000 or $9,000. Even though the Kinect for Windows v2 final pricing hasn't been announced yet, we can expect it to be much, much less than that," thought Ashley.

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