Kinect, with style. Playing dress-up with Microsoft. Will Kinect be the new Mall of the America?

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Is this the prefect fit? The Kinect and online shopping?

The ability to scan real-world images is being taken to new dimensions thanks to devices like Microsoft's Kinect. And thanks to the recently released Kinect SDK, we're beginning to see the Kinect grow in all sorts of directions.

So, here's an interesting use case for Microsoft's Kinect: the virtual dressing room for augmented dress rehearsals. Try on clothes, have them sized, and have them dyed -- all in the comfort of your living room.

Kinect, with style.

Is Kinect, the future of business? The future of research. The future of TV? The future of WOW?

via Microsoft’s Blog >>

There hasn’t been very much WOW around these days. Perhaps Siri, but we’ve really seen that before in various forms. Look at the smartphone market and it’s a game of follow the leader in which each vendor tries to create a more rectangular, blacker, touchscreen device. Nope. Tech vendors talk about the pursuit of WOW. And they bring us more of the same.

Oh, other than this: Microsoft’s Kinect. If senses, it listens, it looks, it responds. And it’s only one year old.

But even at that young age, Microsoft sees that Kinect is ready to grow in all directions. With a new commercial SDK for Windows, Kinect might soon be sitting at the adults’ table: it could be a solid prototyping tool, an involved teaching aid, an enabler of the immobile, and the future of the future living room.

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