Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsofts Kinect has certainly been popular among consumers and hackers a like.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips It seems like a long time ago that I was reporting on a hacker winning a prize fund after he created a driver that allowed him to use Microsofts Kinect sensor with Windows 7. Then not too long after that Microsoft announced that they were officially going to support Kinect on Windows and they released a developers kit for it. Microsoft have since given us a few little bits of information like the fact that the Kinect sensor for Windows will be slightly smaller and better at close range than the current Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Initially it was the hackers who were working hard at getting Kinect working with Windows, but then Microsoft said they’d make it all official and released the Windows SDK for Kinect and also started up a big fund for developers  to kick start development. While it was great to see all this integration coming for Windows, there was one question… Would the Kinect Sensor be suitable for sitting on your average desk where the user would be sitting very close to it? Currently the Kinect Sensor doesn’t work too well unless your standing at least 5 feet away from it