With the idea of offering a more investing gaming experience, Microsoft launched the Kinect, in 2010, a time when both Nintendo and Sony had made a type of games based on the movement of people fashionable, a fashion it didn't last long. Revolutionary as it was, it never found enough of a buzz in the marketplace that Microsoft had wanted. In recent years, the production of this device, as well as the demand, had dropped considerably, mainly due to the fact that the developers were not betting on it. Finally, Microsoft just announced that it stops making Kinect, which we do not know if temporarily or permanently.
And I say temporarily or permanently, because it is likely that the guys from Redmond are working on an improved version dedicated to the professional environment, as at the moment it seems that the Microsoft Hololens have finished. As is customary at Microsoft, the company swill continue to offer support for this deviceWe do not know for how long, even though the manufacturing has finished. The last update that Kinect received was last year to be able to use it in the ecosystem of universal applications of Windows 10, but even so it has not managed to resurrect it from the announced death that it had practically since it reached the market.
Kinect technology will continue to be available on other devices, but in a perfected way such as the iPhone X's Face ID. Apple acquired PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created 3D technology in the original version of the Kinect, in 2013 and has been exploring the possibilities offered by this technology ever since. The iPhone X will use the PrimeSense algorithms in the depth-sensing camera's Face ID system. In fact, the Microsoft Hololens also use this technology.