How Top Entrepreneurs Are Using Microsofts Kinect

Most people know Microsoft's Kinect as a the motion sensing device you can hook-up to your Xbox to track your moves onscreen while playing virtual tennis or bowling. An accelerator program at Microsoft challenged budding entrepreneurs to create innovative ways to use the Kinect technology -- and they created a lot more that just games.

Eleven teams of entrepreneurs worked 13 weeks with $20,000 to fine-tune their creations and presented their ideas to a room full of investors on Thursday in Seattle. The companies were selected from 500 that applied from around the world.

Microsoft accelerator presented by TechStars is a startup incubator that nurses innovative ideas. For this round of…
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