
The Kinect port's removal from the Xbox One S might have lead some to believe that the accessory has reached the end of its life, but a recent Microsoft blog post suggests otherwise.

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
Seems to me it could be really good for use as a room tracker as well as work in tandem with hand controls to better track positioning. I don't think it would good just on its own though.
what dlacy said.
I see why not. I mean Sony brought back move with PSVR so I don't see why Microsoft can't do the same.
Doesn't seem to be a bad idea if they can get the latency down even more and improve stuff like finger tracking.
Yes I think it would! In fact a while back I assumed MS would be using Kinect for VR in the future!
Also, I've read the original article a few days ago and it seemed they found a way to track your hands and fingers so they could actually show up on screen accurately. Though it's still heavy in the R&D phase and I had kinda hoped, when I saw the article's title, that they were ready to release it in the wild so we might still be a few years off before this will be ready for consumers but the idea of not needing special controllers and such sounds awesome to me!