Kinect Like Technology Comes to the PC via Asus

PrimeSense, the Israel based technology company that developed the Project Natal motion tracking concept, which has been turned into the Kinect for the Xbox 360, has announced that it has teamed up with Asus, one of the leaders in PC manufacturing worldwide, to deliver a device for the personal computing space. It allows a user to perform motions that will be turned into input for various applications, some of them video games.

The new device will be called Wavi Xtion, which is a bit incomprehensible, and will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show that takes place in Las Vegas this week.

It seems that the release date will be set for some point later during this year and neither Asus nor PrimeSense offered clear information on the exact specifications of the Wavi Xtion.

Their announcement from PrimeSense and Asus says, “The WAVI Xtion media center for the PC leverages ultra-wide band wireless link and PrimeSense 3D sensing solution to provide controller-free interaction experiences in the living room.”

They add, “Users can browse multimedia content, access the Internet and social networks, and enjoy full body interaction in a more user-friendly and natural living room experience.”

The two companies are also creating a 3D sensing professional development solution, called Xtion Pro, which will be aimed at developers who are looking to integrate motion tracking in their projects.

Kinect has so far been a success for Microsoft, managing to move about 4 million units before the end of 2010 with the company saying that its entire video games related strategy for this year is based around it.

A lot of buyers of Kinect have taken to hacking the device in order to make it work with PCs, where it was quickly adapted to play games, from R.U.S.E. to World of Warcraft, but it has also been adapted to work with vacuum cleaners.