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Comment by drallison | Hacker News Reader

I organize the Colloquium and so have some visibility into why the video is not going to be made available. Microsoft made it a condition for the talk to be presented that it not be webcast live or archived for on-demand viewing. I believe that Johnny Lee's talk will provide new information about the Kinect, information which Microsoft is willing to reveal in a closed forum, not open one.

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In other words, you'll get the closed-forum information... just 90 minutes later on Twitter, not real-time video.

drallison, you posted the link in the first place??

The talk hasn't taken place yet, so I assume he posted it so people who are interested can attend.

<EDIT> Huh, guess that must have been a typo, as the date at the top says Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Colour me embarrassed. </EDIT>

Ahh... FTA:

> Students who are taking EE380 for credit and cannot attend the class live may view (and comment upon) another talk by the same speaker given in EE380 on Feb 13, 2008.

The talk took place almost two years ago, so it's a shame that Microsoft think that any information about Kinect is still under wraps, especially when you consider that it has several open source libraries and drivers now (iirc).

The alternative talk describes some controllers that Johnny Lee did for the Wii when he was a graduate student at CMU.

That is correct. I posted the abstract because I felt that there were members of the HN community in the Bay Area who might find the talk useful and interesting.

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