WINDOWS用的Kinect来了~只需要249美元，电脑能用的Kinect抱回家

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Last month, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer announced that Kinect for Windows would be shipping on February 1st.  Well, February 1st is finally here and Microsoft has officially reported that today version 1.0 of the SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in the twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware.

The suggested retail price for Kinect for Windows is $249, but later this year Microsoft has plans to offer a special academic price of $149 for Qualified Educational Users.

Since Beta 2 was released three months ago, Microsoft has made many improvements to the SDK and runtime, including:

Support for up to four Kinect sensors plugged into the same computer

Significantly improved skeletal tracking, including the ability for developers to control which user is being tracked by the sensor

Near Mode for the new Kinect for Windows hardware, which enables the depth camera to see objects as close as 40 centimeters in front of the device

Many API updates and enhancements in the managed and unmanaged runtimes

The latest Microsoft Speech components (V11) are now included as part of the SDK and runtime installer

Improved “far-talk” acoustic model that increases speech recognition accuracy

New and updated samples, such as Kinect Explorer, which enables developers to explore the full capabilities of the sensor and SDK, including audio beam and sound source angles, color modes, depth modes, skeletal tracking, and motor controls

A commercial-ready installer which can be included in an application’s set-up program, making it easy to install the Kinect for Windows runtime and driver components for end-user deployments.

Robustness improvements including driver stability, runtime fixes, and audio fixes

More details can be found here
Looking forward, Microsoft has plans on releasing updates to the SDK and runtime 2-3 times per year, and according to the post the team is already "hard at work"on the next release.
"We are continuing to invest in programs like our Testing and Adoption Program and the Kinect Accelerator, and will work to create new programs in the future to help support our developer and partner ecosystem," Microsoft said in a blog post today. "We will also continue to listen to our developer community and business customers for the kinds of features and capabilities they need, as they re-imagine the future of computing using the power of Kinect."

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上个月，微软的史蒂夫鲍尔默宣布，适用于Windows的Kinect将在2月1日公布 。那么，2月1日终于到了，微软已经正式报道，今天的1.0 版本的SDK和运行所需软件可供下载，将在12个国家开始出货Kinect的Windows硬件。

Windows的Kinect的零售价建议为249美元，但年末时候，微软计划提供一个特殊的149美元的价格来提供给教育者。

由于Beta 2在3个月前发布，微软已经做出了许多改进的SDK和运行的环境，
包括：
最多支持四个Kinect的传感器插入在同一台计算机;
显着改善肢体的跟踪，包括为开发人员能够管理哪一个用户正在通过传感器进行游玩;
更新了Kinect的近景模式，使深度相机模式最近可以捕捉在设备前面40厘米的物体;
大量API更新，在托管和非托管模式运行时增强;
最新的Microsoft语音组件（V11），现在包括SDK和运行时安装的一部分;
改进的“远讲”声学模型，提高语音识别的准确性;
新的的资源加入，如Kinect的资源管理器，使开发人员能够研究传感器和SDK的全部功能，包括音频控制，声源角度，色彩模式，深度模式，肢体跟踪和电机控制;
包含在应用程序的设置方案，使其易于安装Kinect在Windows上的运行软件，完成最终用户端的部署;
稳定性有所提升，包括驱动程序的稳定性，运行时修复和音频修复。

展望未来，微软已经发布更新的SDK和运行2~3次了，并且制作团队仍然在为下一个版本的计划而“努力工作”。

“我们将继续投资于测试程序和Kinect的加速器，我们将努力创造新的系统，以帮助支持我们的开发者和合作伙伴们“微软在今天在一篇博客文章表示。他说：“我们也将继续听取我们的开发者和商业客户所需要的各种特性和功能，使Kinect可以变得向他们想象的一样。“