Microsoft kills kinect officially

All users remember Kinect, Microsoft's motion detection system for its Xbox consoles and PC, after its little success the company has decided to officially kill it so it is already part of Redmond's past.

Kinect is a thing of the past

Last October 2017 Microsoft announced its decision for the production of Kinect systems, despite this, there were still some units for sale in stores, so until now it has been possible to get hold of it, although it was increasingly difficult as availability dropped. Now the Redmond have gone one step further by ceasing to manufacture the adapter that was used to connect Kinect to the current Xbox One.

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Here we have precisely one of the causes of Kinect's failure. Its 3D sensor uses a proprietary connector that Microsoft removed from the Xbox One S to save space on the smaller version of the console. Therefore, the only way to use a Kinect on the only Xbox One consoles available on the market today is with an adapter, which also involves sacrificing a console USB port. This same situation is what occurs when using the system on the PC.

Given the low availability of the system and its adapter at present, sellers and resellers are exploiting the situation with very high sale prices so that only the most fans or the wealthiest can do it.

In the end, the death of Kinect is somewhat sad, this motion detection system has been more popular than the Nintendo Wiimote and more than the PlayStation Move. It has also been more accessible to developers, producing interesting experiments in the field of human-computer interaction.

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