Kinect and Windows are set to release new design samples next month.
Kinect will hit Windows desktop apps, which will pose challenges to developers designing austral controls. Microsoft released a set of guidelines to help developers who create the Kinect Windows apps, reported VentureBeat.
In a Microsoft blog it was revealed that a new Kinect for Windows run time and SDK were to be released by the Kinect for Windows team. The release is set for October 8. 2012. The blog post mentions some highlights, while it says full details won't be available until the official release.
The company intends to add new features like "expanded sensor data access-including color camera settings and extended depth data."
This platform will be easier and more helpful for developers with the release of new tools and UI. Microsoft wants to extend it to different Windows platforms. The October update will support Windows 8 desktop applications, Microsoft .NET 4.5, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.
The post also said that Kinect for Windows is already available in 38 countries and in seven months it will be available in 12 more countries.
"Microsoft has had a multi-decade commitment to natural user interface (NUI), and my team and I look forward to continuing to be an important part of that commitment," said Craid Eisler, general manger, Kinect for Windows in the blog post. "In coming years, I believe that we will get to experience an exciting new era where computing becomes invisible and all of us will be able to interact intuitively and naturally with the computers around us.
"This is this just the beginning," he adds.
