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ASUS collaborates with one of the founders of PrimeSense Kinect put together a PC-based version of Microsoft in depth detection game controller. Thought, I think it was that PC gamers and hackers wanted native device and an open platform for games based on gesture and OPERATING controls.
Creating them around a bit, but we haven't heard much about it, perhaps because it's not a very accurate copy Kinect at all, but the quality of the product. Asus is releasing a new version (Xtion Pro live, detailed here in the VR), but can't help to recall their ill-fated "Eee Stick, another clone of the game controller that never took off.
Eee Stick was a knockoff of the Wii is no Wii headline IR bar. Accelerometers teardrop-shaped controllers, and several demos tech masquerading as a game. They had a hundred people team at one point, so it was just a concept. This is Xtion differently?
I think they've got the right idea in advancing a unique angle as a gesture controls for the PC, but so closely mimicking the competition was a mistake. Kinect is a gaming device, designed for the living room with a large amount of space, where it clearly perch on top of the TV or Cabinet. It was never intended for PC peripherals (although of course, Microsoft is working on a version like that), basing one off that design is wrong jump from the very beginning.
The new version is more powerful than the old, but still does not meet all of the features Kinect — and yet worth hundreds of dollars more. Asus, a company from time to time (but not in any case often) flashes brilliance in a notebook and PC design, should be focused on miniaturizing and embedding it or technology implementation ideas PrimeSense in OpenNI, using existing technology.
If people want they purchase Kinect Kinect. Asus Barking up the wrong tree here.
[via Electronista]
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