Microsoft is planning to integrate its Kinect motion sensor into next-generation television sets, The Daily has learned.
Sources familiar with the subject told The Daily that the tech giant wants to aggressively push the Kinect into as many living rooms as possible, even those without its Xbox 360 gaming systems.
Microsoft is said to be in the early stages of licensing its Kinect technology to television hardware manufacturers like Vizio and Sony.
A Kinect-enabled TV would most likely network with local PCs running the next version of Windows and also allow for gesture-based TV control (think: waving your arm to turn the set off). It’s also possible the system would be able to recognize individual people and automatically resume programming where it was left off.
This move would place Microsoft squarely in competition with Google TV and possibly with Apple, if reports of a forthcoming Apple TV are true.
Sources familiar with the subject told The Daily that the tech giant wants to aggressively push the Kinect into as many living rooms as possible, even those without its Xbox 360 gaming systems.
Microsoft is said to be in the early stages of licensing its Kinect technology to television hardware manufacturers like Vizio and Sony.
A Kinect-enabled TV would most likely network with local PCs running the next version of Windows and also allow for gesture-based TV control (think: waving your arm to turn the set off). It’s also possible the system would be able to recognize individual people and automatically resume programming where it was left off.
This move would place Microsoft squarely in competition with Google TV and possibly with Apple, if reports of a forthcoming Apple TV are true.
