微軟最新推出的Azure Kinect DK怎麼樣？

昨天在巴塞羅那MWC 2019大展上召開的HoloLens 2新聞發布會上，在雲端服務Azure的基礎上對Kinect進行了重新設計，並將用於計算機圖形和語音模型領域。在發布會結束之後，外媒The Verge現場體驗了微軟最新推出的Azure Kinect DK，令人驚訝的是在內部硬體升級的同時，它的尺寸要比Kinect for Windows感測器更小巧，而且重量也更輕（440g vs. 990g）。

與之前的Kinect中的4麥克風陣列相比，Azure Kinect DK內置7個麥克風陣列，以及支持3840 x 2160圖像的升級版RGB相機，此外還裝備了同HoloLens 2相同的深度感測器。

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微軟計劃為這款新的Azure Kinect DK發布一系列SDK，由於無法兼容新的Kinect型號，開發者需要將為Kinect for Windows開發的應用移植到新平臺上。Azure Kinect DK有一個新的感測器SDK，身體跟蹤SDK，視覺API和語音服務SDK。微軟尚未發布所有這些SDK，但這款399美元Kinect已經開始接受預訂，並計劃6月下旬向開發者發貨。

微軟官方也提供了一系列示例，展示了開發者如何使用Azure Kinect DK進行零售、生產甚至醫療領域的應用開發。在零售領域，開發者可以使用新款Kinect來追蹤產品和管理庫存，與最初的Kinect非常相似，用例將取決於創意開發人員如何使用這款最新型號。