PrimeSense and ASUS team, bring Kinect-like Wavi Xtion to your HTPC
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PrimeSense is the brains behind Microsoft’s Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an important twist — it connects to the ASUS Wavi box you see immediately above, which wirelessly streams its data to your living room PC, eliminating a cord or two. Oh, and should ASUS attract enough developers, it will even pull down applications from an Xtion online store. ASUS says we’ll see the package commercially available around the world in Q2 of next year — with a UI and selection of apps and games on board — but they’ll release an Xtion PRO developer kit in February to tempt all you Kinect hackers into coding magical things for the platform. No more details for now, but there’s an event in Vegas this week where ASUS is all but guaranteed to show it off. PR after the break.
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