The Kinect for XBox has been a tinker/hacker dream for a long time. Microsoft sold roughly 35 million of them. People have done a lot of cool stuff with them over the years.

Now you don’t need to steal from your old gaming console to make these projects go. Microsoft has released the Azure Kinect Developer Kit, so you can take your Kinect hacks to the next level.

This Kinect is designed to work with Azure AI tools to help develop great new applications. This is to compete with the AWS Deep Lens that Amazon released last year.