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Although Microsoft would point to the games, the hardware, and the marketing as what made Kinectthe success it is, I would point to the hacker community who embraced it and made it cool as having a major influence on sales too.
Off the back of that Microsoft has already announced it is going to officially support experimentation with Kinect through an SDK release. Now Sony is set to do the same for PlayStation Move.
A new page has appeared on the PlayStation.com website introducing a forthcoming software tool called move.me. Sony is describing it as a software server application allowing for the development of innovative applications by anyone. Sony list academic researchers, university instructors, college students, programming hobbyists, and HCI developers as potential users of move.me. Sony also list the following as expected areas of development:
- Games and tools that support kids’ physical fitness and nutrition
- Kid-friendly programming interfaces for computer/technology classes or individual learning
- Physical therapy and rehabilitation
- Sports physiology or fitness training
- Music and the creative arts
For now you can sign up to be informed of when the product launches. There’s also a separate sign-up for showing interest in actually downloading the toolset, although you have to specify if you are affiliated with a school, university, or workplace.