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Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing Kinect, but Its Technology Will Live on With the HoloLens

Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing Kinect, but Its Technology Will Live on With the HoloLens 5o6a69

By Rishi Alwani | Updated: 25 October 2017 22:49 IST

Highlights

Microsoft has confirmed that it will no longer make Kinect
Kinect's core tech lives on in Hololens
It sold 35 million units since its 2010 debut

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According to an interview with Kinect creator Alex Kipman and General Manager of Xbox Devices Marketing, Matthew Lapsen, Xbox One.

“Trust is something you earn in drops and lose in buckets,” said Kipman in conversation with Fast Co Design, alluding to industry-wide concern over consumer privacy when the Xbox One launched with Kinect back in 2013. “I’d say Kinect started the process in 2010 in having to earn drops of trust. Any number of [bad] events in the world, each one, you lose a bucket.”

Considering the PS4 is Xbox One S or Xbox One X have ports for the Kinect, requiring s to spend for an additional accessory to use it.

“When we introduced Xbox One, we designed it to have the best experience with the Kinect. That was our goal with the Xbox One launch,” says Lapsen. “And like all product launches, you monitor that over time, you learn and adjust.”

Nonetheless, Kinect has sold over 35 million units since its 2010 debut. Fast Co Design reports that the tech used in Kinect - particularly its sensor - will power Microsoft’s augmented reality HoloLens that Kipman also created and the team behind it have gone on to work on Microsoft technologies such as Cortana, Windows Hello, and a interface for the future that the company calls Gaze, Gesture, and Voice (GGV).

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