Microsoft Kinect Turns One Year Old, Ushers in New Interface Era
Microsoft's gesture interface Kinect turns one year old this weekend; it was the 4th of November 2010 when it was first publicly available. The device has taken the world by storm, from casual gamers to device hackers around the globe and it's breathed new hope into a lagging tech giant. Perhaps most importantly, it's helped create an entire new category of human-computer interface. After the Command Line came the Graphic User Interface – and after that has come the Natural User Interface (NUI): the human-computer interface that is transparent or invisible.
Along with the iPad, which itself is just over 18 months old after launching in the Spring of 2010, the Kinect has helped turn ideas that were once science fiction into developments that seem imminent. See, for example, the video below made by Microsoft to celebrate the innovation occurring on the Kinect platform.
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