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Re:Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobil... by RockRobotRock on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:28PM (#38005018)
Out of all the examples, why Kinect? They did the right thing and made it accessible for developers, but why would the Kinect ever work for Xbox players who are on average 33 year old males? It was gimmicky and fraught with bad silliness from the beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Milo
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Re:Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobil... by eichin on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:34PM (#38005126)
The Kinect (and especially the cheap knockoffs that followed) changed the field of amateur robotics, just not gaming... in robotics, there was a lot of "it was great for us but we really have no idea why they did that" :-)
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