Microsoft has announced that it plans to cease sales of the original Kinect sensor for Windows during the coming year.
The move come following the arrival of the sensor's second iteration and its PC adapter in October. Microsoft says that companies relient on the tech should contact them soon for final orders of the original sensor, and warned that "no more original sensors will be manufactured after the current stock sells out."
Kinect Version 2 for Windows is more or less the same technology coupled with the Xbox One when Microsoft launched their latest home console in November 2013. There are two changes over the original though, the Xbox logo has been removed, and there's now a serarate power supply and hub used to operate it. The PC adapter for Kinect on Xbox One connects the new sensor to a Windows 8 device via USB 3.0 and costs $50.
Microsoft launched the original Kinect for Windows systems in February 2012.
