Chatting with the Kinect Team's Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Channel 9)

Chatting with the Kinect Team's Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett

Posted: Mar 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM

By: Tina

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I had a chance to spend a few minutes with some of the Kinect team's key members. Most of what they are working on is under lock and key, but it was nice to chat with them for a little bit and get a little insight into the Kinect.

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jamesashley mostly harmless

Mar 26, 2011 at 9:51 AM

I think it's cool they are letting the unibomber work on the kinect team.
whathelldood

Mar 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM

as heartwarming as letting a fake degree "Doctor" work on Ps movi.
petaganayr

Mar 27, 2011 at 10:46 AM

I should have paid attention to the title. I thought Tina's chatting with Kings of Leon.
Max

Mar 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM

Kinect has a great future, for example MS has already reduced the lag of Kinect down to 0.002 seconds in recent research (see: http://123kinect.com/ms-kinect-research-lag-reduced-to-0-002-seconds-video/ ). Cool stuff! Well done guys :).
Charles Welcome Change

Mar 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM

The journey that Alex describes has only just begun. Where will this new age of computers that can see and reason about what they learn take us? What does it mean for the future of human-computer interaction and natural user interaction with computing devices?
Nice interview, Tina.
C