Microsoft Announces Kinect For Windows v2

The second version of Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows is nigh, and the company has shared images of the final hardware design.

There’s nothing too revolutionary here, but Microsoft has made the Kinect for Windows v2 to be slightly more inconspicuous by moving the “Kinect” label to the top of the device and swapped out the glowing “X” logo for a simpler, lower-profile indicator.

There’s a hub which accepts input from the sensor and the power brick and also has a USB 3.0 output to a PC, and of course there’s the power brick itself.


Microsoft says to stay tuned, and that it’s getting closer to launching the next generation of Kinect for Windows.