{"id":47624,"date":"2012-04-12T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47624"},"modified":"2012-04-12T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:33:20","slug":"kinect-coming-to-windows-phone-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/47624-kinect-coming-to-windows-phone-8.html","title":{"rendered":"Kinect coming to Windows Phone 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> Kinect, a motion- and voice-based controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console will work with <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> Phone 8 devices according to VR-Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The technology giant is apparently working on integrating the Kinect Natural User Interface with its upcoming mobile operating system refresh.<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft is dedicating \u201ca number of resources\u201d to the project, the biggest hurdle seems to be the lack of room for Kinect cameras on smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKinect has three cameras, one of which his infrared. We can\u2019t put an IR camera on a smartphone, and without it, NUI won\u2019t work in dark,\u201d said the unnamed source speaking to VR-Zone<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is integrating the technology hoping that the feature will spur consumer demand for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/04\/11\/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-bring-kinect-to-windows-phone-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s motion-base controller for the Xbox 360 is coming to Windows Phone 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":47506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7963,123,807],"class_list":["post-47624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-kinect","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47626,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions\/47626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}