[Utilizer]

I'm wondering why no one has thought of doing this already?

[knittnmom]

It’s extremely sensitive - a slight bump and it needs recalibrated. If they can resolve that, it would be much more useful in the real world.

[RJS1950]

I read several articles about this a few years back when the Kinect was in Beta and when it first came out. The technology is being used for a lot of interesting things im many areas including medicine. Not new, just becoming more common.

[adorno]

...but for some reason it hasn't really caught on

I've read and heard of many different applications which are being designed to use Kinect.

For example: Medical researchers are finding incredible uses for Microsoft’s Kinect

http://news.yahoo.com/medical-researchers-finding-incredible-uses-microsoft-kinect-213152507.html

[Uncle Miltie]

Why wouldn’t one create a series of passive listening posts outside your perimeter composed of commercially available security system cams with good microphones?

You could run the whole thing wirelessly, silently, with few humans, etc.

Then, all you need to do is hook each up to a claymore, and ....

[huldah1776]

How about they create mini cameras on those i-spy bees and fly them around for real time intel.

[OldNewYork]

Interesting.