{"id":121613,"date":"2017-10-26T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121613"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:30:53","slug":"the-kinect-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/121613-the-kinect-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"The Kinect is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has admitted the death of the Kinect and stopped manufacturing the device, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90147868\/exclusive-microsoft-has-stopped-manufacturing-the-kinect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Co.Design<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kinect was a camera and microphone created for use with the Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft told Co.Design it will continue to support the device for Xbox users, but will not manufacture more Kinect units.<\/p>\n<p>Kinect was once hailed as the next big revolution in living room gaming, and was intended to be a big part of the Xbox One. It quickly faded, however, as customers sought a traditional gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Kinect will live on through its technology, which is used in Microsoft\u2019s Hololens headset.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/234286-microsoft-surface-book-2-not-coming-to-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Surface Book 2 not coming to South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has admitted the death of the Kinect and stopped manufacturing the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":121615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,91],"class_list":["post-121613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-kinect","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}