Microsoft bringing Kinect to Windows Phone 8

Erm ICS already support it.

All Linux 3.0 + kernels have drivers for Kinect build-in
 
isie said:
Seriosly?
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From Mauro Carvalho Chehab <>
Subject [GIT PULL for v3.0-rc1] media updates


Hi Linus,

Please pull from:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git v4l_for_linus

For the patches for the next version, hopefully Linux 3.0 :) of the kernel.

This series:
- Extends the DVB API to support the new European terrestrial
standard (DVB-T2);
- Adds support for Kinect color camera;
- Adds new drivers for cxd2820r and drx-d frontends;
- Adds support for a Remote controller from a vendor called Redrat (with r);
- Adds a driver for a new NXP tuner (tda18212);
- The rest is usual driver enhancements, new boards, fixes, etc.

Thanks!
Mauro
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From the Kernel GIT thread.

Found a lot of mail between the developers, not gonna exactly post all of em.

A quick Google gave me: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linu...dds-Support-for-Microsoft-Kinect-212844.shtml

Finally! We are proud to announce today, July 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 3.0, announced by its father, Linus Torvalds.

Among the new features included in Linux kernel 3.0 we can mention Btrfs data scrubbing and automatic defragmentation, Berkeley Packet Filter JIT filtering, unprivileged ICMP_ECHO, XEN Dom0 support, wake on WLAN, lots of new drivers and support for many hardware components.

"So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.< bignum > days, and 3.0 is out. This obviously also opens the merge window for the next kernel, which will be 3.1. The stable team will take the third digit, so 3.0.1 will be the first stable release based on 3.0."

"That said, judging by past experience, the summer merge windows often tend to be quieter, so maybe I worry needlessly. Much of Europe is starting to go on vacation, and parts of the US are being fried to a crisp, so maybe 3.1 will be calm too." - said Linus Torvalds in the announcement.

Highlights of Linux Kernel 3.0:

· Automatic defragmentation, performance improvements and scrubbing for the Btrfs filesystem;
· sendmmsg(): batching of sendmsg() calls;
· XEN dom0 support;
· Cleancache;
· Berkeley Packet Filter just-in-time filtering;
· Support for Wake on WLAN;
· Unprivileged ICMP_ECHO messages;
· setns() syscall: better namespace handling;
· Alarm-timers;
· Support for Microsoft Kinect;
· Support for Apple iSight webcam;
· Support for AMD Llano Fusion APUs;
· Support for Intel iwlwifi 105 and 135;
· Support for Intel C600 serial-attached-scsi controller;
· Support for Ralink RT5370 USB;
· Support for several realtek rtl81xx devices;
· Lots of new drivers;
· Many bugfixes and improvements.

These are just a few of the new features available in Linux kernel 3.0. For a complete list of all the newly supported devices, newly added drivers, etc., please visit the official changelog.
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arneduppi said:
It was released in February after being announced at the CES 2012.
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excellent. More reason to go the XBox route. I just love it when all these technologies can be integrated. Hope there's good development support.
 
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