Kinect Technology To Join HTPCs By 2011

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You saw it attached to the Xbox 360 first, but there’s a growing body of interest in making Kinect technology from PrimeSense the future of controlling most everything.

Word is, several home theater personal computer (HTPC) makers want Kinect technology in their systems by the end of the year. And one as yet unnamed cable company wants likewise for its boxes.

You’ve seen the videos and demos and such by now (they’re even running them in Best Buy!), and frankly, this move makes sense. We’ve seen how well the Kinect works with pausing, fast forwarding, rewinding and playing video, so the thought of patching it into an up-down circumstance for a channel changer function (not to mention a collapse-expand circumstance for channel information and on-screen programming guides) would seem to be a natural fit.

And of course, HTPCs would do exactly what the Kinect was doing with video anyway, so that’s another move that makes sense.

These are still plans, mind you, but from the dates mentioned, they want to have these available in rapid fashion.