Microsoft Showcases a Kinect-Windows Phone Integration That May Entice Game Developers

While Microsoft’s Windows Phone has a ways to go before it starts to seriously entice developers, the company did show off a promising integration between the OS and Kinect today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It could bridge the longstanding gap between the console and mobile worlds.

Joe Belfiore, the corporate vice president and director of the Windows Phone program, showed off footage of a woman commanding an Xbox game from her phone. She created an obstacle course on the fly for her partner, who had to duck and dive to avoid incoming balls through the Kinect.

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