Kinect and the Controllerless Interface
Microsoft's Kinect ditches the controller for a depth-sensing camera, and the real story is the cheap 3D sensing that makes spatial computing thinkable.
Windows, Surface, Xbox, Azure, and a Copilot strategy being wedged into every one of them. A company sprawling enough that its consumer face and its cloud-and-AI ambitions barely look related, which is exactly what makes it worth watching right now.
Microsoft's Kinect ditches the controller for a depth-sensing camera, and the real story is the cheap 3D sensing that makes spatial computing thinkable.
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