The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting

Kinect, Microsoft’s defunct Xbox camera, lives on in surprising ways

(Credit: Microsoft)🙌 Kinect is still alive today, but not for gaming🤔 The Xbox camera has been repurposed in several interesting ways since it was discontinued📷 For example, it powers a New York Hall of Science exhibit called Connected Worlds📈 Kinect is still the fastest-selling gaming peripheral of all timeRemember Kinect? It turns out Microsoft’s body-tracking camera that sold one million units in 10 days is still alive and well – but not …

The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting

Geoffrey Bunting / The Guardian: The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting  —  Fifteen years since Microsoft's motion-sensing gaming camera was released for the Xbox 360, artists, roboticists and more are still finding new ways to use it