Kinect System News Today

Them into products. bill gates was talking about tablet computers a decade ago but it took apple with the ipad to make them take off. windows smartphones have been around for ages but now google with its android phones is taking over the market. >> theyre really good at the hard science and really good at physical devices like xbox kinect. theyre totally missing the pleasing and delightful technology, the user interface people want to use. apple have that. microsoft dont. >> reporter: and there ...

>> you can steer the planes -- >> reporter: a system that allows a virtual handshake with someone on the other side of the world or software that allows an ordinary camera to take 3d pictures. many of these ideas from microsofts research labs will never take off, but heres one that has. the xbox kinect system turns a players body into a games controller and transforms anyone into an avatar. it does whatever i do and i can talk to another avatar, which can be a real person thousands of miles away...