Microsoft officially declared Kinect

After years of sympathy, but for Kinect to continue to exist, Microsoft eventually died for this one-time invention.

Microsoft told the site specializing in inventions of Fast Co Design that after 7 years of development, it will no longer support the Xbox. Kinect is a motion sensor peripheral device that allows gamers to stand up from the chair and immerse themselves in the game with jumping, punching movements .

Kinect uses a method of creating maps from infrared points to take the 3D image of the room as well as the movement of people in that room.

There are still about 35 million Kinect devices worldwide. In 2011, Kinect was the world's best-selling device with more than 130,000 units a day for 2 months.

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Microsoft Kinect uses infrared sensors to determine movement

However, game developers are not interested in creating games with lots of body movement. Because they are used to designing games based solely on traditional handles and there is no compelling reason to change. So very few games came out using Kinect's motion capture feature.

Big games, such as Halo, never want to create the Kinect-style action style, or at least to the extent that developers need this device's feature.

From a broader perspective, Microsoft wants to use Kinect to play video and audio via Skype and Twitch, but this obviously doesn't guarantee Kinect's existence.

Even though it's a hardware device, Kinect's depth-sensing is still used, for example, Microsoft uses the technology of Kinect camera on Hololen virtual reality headsets.

Kinect's 3D sensor technology is not only used by Microsoft. It is also available on the upcoming iPhone X phone with Face ID, infrared face detection technology.

Kinect, though dead, its applications still exist and extend much more than the scope of video games that failed to exploit.