Kinect May Support PC Games After All

i wudn't be surprised if.... WHEN kinect gets official pc support, it will be used more than it would be for the 360

If M$ doesnt hurry up and release official PC support for it, its only a matter of time before someone else does i think.

Microsoft is just being lazy, they see the hacking community doing what they would have to pay developers to do, as soon as someone makes a commercially viable product microsoft will buy them and Blamo! Kinect PC is born...

why wouldn't microsoft want this? This is roughly another 10 Million+ potential customers.

Most people probably can't support it hardware wise. There's still a massive number of computers out there with p4 and Win XP

I do like the idea of using the Kinect on PC games.

Imagine playing WoW with the Kinect? (btw i don't play wow...)

Is it me or am I the only one that doesn't mind just parking there behind in a chair and playing games... I don't want to have to flail my arms and legs around to make movement on a screen. Because usually the movements the characters are doing are moves or stuff I would never (or nobody would ever be able to) be able to do, or want to try because I would probably end up dead lol. Even with the Wii I still sit on my butt playing the games from my couch, I never look like the idiots in the comercials lol. My 2 cents

awesome, i get to punch my 22" lcd by accident because i decided to mele a bad guy in black opps. fail!

Most of the 'gaming PCs' can support it

It sounds to me as though the Microsoft software developers either can't, or don't want to create software for the PC platform, so they're going to buy the software from whichever "hacker" makes the best...or steal it.

thanks but no thanks, i still like to use my keyboard and mouse

If they manage to do something nice with it i'd have to get one along with a proyector lol

This site has gone to hades, they ban certain users whom they don't agree then allow all these SPAMs to get posted.

I prefer the Razer and Sixense approach, which is, imo, the best motion you will find. Its gonna be crazy!!

have a look on the razor site under product, licensed product, motion sensor

Why would that be a problem? Microsoft would sue them for every dime they had. Only they can license it's use.

So Microsoft might actually treat they're original home that made them what htey are to day...without PC's and PC gaming...MS would have never been able to step in the console arena..Guess they care about us after all...*rolls eyes* ..well ur supposed to think the best of people...so maybe they do care..but they feel we dont care about them since a lot of us like to pirate.

This is what every MMO should incorporate. Get people up off their fat butts and exercising. You want to tank? Be ready to shake your booty. The main reason I quite playing MMOs was because they were making me fat. If I was forced to jump around and fight it would keep me in better shape and I'd start playing them again.

if you mount lenses on both the cameras and sensors to condense them and make them focus much closer to the pc monitor, with software calibration and all that won't it be able to have closer range, and a much higher resolution?

This isn't news Tom's. If you actually stopped listening and siding with all the "I hate consoles" banner and actually did your research and listened when kinect was first announced you would know that the original plan was to develop it first for consoles and eventually PC support.

Peace out noobs.

It would be smart to release it with ONLY Windows 7 support. Would be another way to sell more licenses.

you have no idea how correct your words sound , microsoft not only ahs shafted PC in recent years , but originalkly when teh 2 goons behind the originam xbox took the idea of doiung a console to Bill Gates , he turned them down on it. Bill gates changed his mind when sony started directly runing ads that compared the ps2 ot pc's (at apress confrence Sony's CEO even went as far as sayign ps2 will kill PC' s )

and truth be told the original xbox was only half heartedly supported but teh company as a whole and most upper employees never thought they would make a second one, fast forward to today, and now the entire company seems to be reversed , support xbox 360 mostly in games with little to no game support for the pc , jsut look at games for windows , it's a hal;f a-- attmept to make it look like MS still cares about pc gaming. if it was a serious effort they would have already fixed the down laod bug for win xp users ( which is stil a heavily used OS)

llo.

I wouldn't say lazy, that's more like genius.
How do you get the world's best unsigned software people to write code without paying them?
Tell them they shouldn't, cast the rod and wait for those fishies to bite.
Whilst simultaniously tech websites, (like this one), provide them with hundreds of millions of dollars of free advertising.
Absolute genius.

too bad most users on Tomshardware and most people that develop 3rd party apps and users of 3rd party apps can support. All you need at most is a dual core and a graphics card.