By Mike Elgan

Computerworld | Aug 30, 2014 4:05 AM PT

 

Four years ago, in-the-air gestures were the future of gaming and the desktop PC user interface.

In 2010, Microsoft launched its Kinect product for Xbox 360 and Leap Motion was founded as a company.

For a while, Kinect for Xbox 360 was the fastest selling consumer electronics gadget of all time. And when Leap Motion introduced the Leap Motion controller, minds were blown by the demos.

The excitement around Kinect has fizzled, among both gamers and game developers. Microsoft recently boosted sales of the Xbox One by removing the requirement to also get Kinect. People aren't using it like they thought. Hardly anyone is using the hyped Kinect for Windows product.

And Leap Motion has completely failed in the market.

What happened?

 

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