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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by polpo on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:53PM (#15551757)
Occipital still produces the Structure Sensor [1], which uses similar technology to the 1st generation Kinect. They've also recently introduced the Structure Core [2], a new generation, miniaturized depth sensor designed to be embedded into anything that needs that kind of sensing.

[1] https://structure.io

[2] https://structure.io/core

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by teraflop on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:28PM (#15552092)
It's not a true replacement if it costs 10-20x as much, though.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by jandrese on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:45PM (#15552256)
I wonder how much the face sensor on the new iPhones is going to cost? Will people be able to buy it as a separate part? I have to think that for repair purposes it will be available, but the price point will no doubt be inflated.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by thesmok on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:14AM (#15556966)
> Will people be able to buy it as a separate part?

Eventually, yes. I'm not sure there'll be a cloned part on Aliexpress next year, but there will be parts from broken phones for sure.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by blindfly on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:24AM (#15557227)
Did I miss something? It's $379 on the site. Was the kinect actually only $18.95-37.90?! Now I wish I had picked one up. I thought they were north of $100.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by Qworg on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:01AM (#15558385)
They are referring to the Core above - $5000 to start, $1000 for each additional sensor.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by akoncius on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:02AM (#15556727)
it is, if all agree that original Kinect price was subsidized based on plan to get the rest of the money through purchase of games
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