A Career of Thriving on ‘Impossible Projects’ – Including Kinect for Xbox 360

guest · Jun 14, 2012

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Microsoft said:

In June 2010, Alex Kipman sat in Los Angeles’ Galen Center as Cirque de Soleil performers helped introduce the world to Kinect...

...Sitting in the darkened arena, he reflected on the journey that began with a question: Can we make technology disappear? “People haven’t realized that technology is actually luring them away from humanity,” said Kipman, now a general manager of hardware incubation in the Interactive Entertainment Business unit at Microsoft. “They have started to disappear into their devices, real life is passing them by and they don’t even know it! This marks the dawn of a new era, and it’s the key to getting us back to the human path. Allowing people to do what we do best; create, collaborate, play and love. People will once again enjoy the life that breathes all around them..."

...“All computers at the end of the day are binary things – you’re either a one or a zero. Black or white,” Kipman said. “But the real world is analog, not digital. We’re not machines that think in ones or zeros but we deal in terms of signals and noise. We look at the entire world and think in terms of signals and push out the noise.” Kinect is sophisticated enough to understand that fundamentally. As a result, Kipman says it’s the first step to transitioning from a world where we have to understand technology to a world where technology understands us. "Kinect is an inflection point in that journey,” he said. “It’s the first step in making technology disappear – and the start of a shift that will put our industry on a more human path.”

Read more: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2012/jun12/06-12AlexKipman.aspx
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Cudni · Jun 14, 2012

There are several clever and fun projects going on using MS Kinect. Good stuff.

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