I want one to play with and I'm a Linux OS user. I should have picked one up at $99 over the holidays.
The comments from the msdn blog are interesting in indicating the lifetime customer value of XBox users with a Kinect to Microsoft.
The extra cost might be worth it, if the documentation and examples were much more than simple library descriptions. I am thinking more of being able to grok the hardware/software driver interface than the higher-level calls.
Any fellow HN'ers with early insight to how good the Microsoft Kinect SDK extras look?
If you're worried about the cost of Windows and the development tools as part of that, if you're in a startup then it's likely that you qualify for BizSpark where you can get full Windows licenses and copies of Visual Studio for free: http://bit.ly/uBC9Ol
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I want one to play with and I'm a Linux OS user. I should have picked one up at $99 over the holidays.
The comments from the msdn blog are interesting in indicating the lifetime customer value of XBox users with a Kinect to Microsoft.
The extra cost might be worth it, if the documentation and examples were much more than simple library descriptions. I am thinking more of being able to grok the hardware/software driver interface than the higher-level calls.
Any fellow HN'ers with early insight to how good the Microsoft Kinect SDK extras look?
If you're worried about the cost of Windows and the development tools as part of that, if you're in a startup then it's likely that you qualify for BizSpark where you can get full Windows licenses and copies of Visual Studio for free: http://bit.ly/uBC9Ol
You can't use the Kinect SDK with Linux.
If you're interested in learning more about the driver interface, OpenKinect is FOSS and runs on any platform: http://openkinect.org
Still available for $99 at some places.
E.g. http://www.buy.com/prod/xbox-360-kinect-sensor-holiday-bundl...