While HoloLens 2 is undoubtedly the aspirational star of Microsoft’s augmented-reality (AR) offerings, the company isn’t putting all its eggs in that particular basket. Alongside the new HoloLens headset, the company also announced the Azure Kinect development kit: a new version of the Kinect sensor technology.
Though Kinect first shipped as a gaming peripheral, the accessory immediately piqued the interest of researchers and engineers who were attracted to its affordable depth sensing and skeleton tracking.
