So the rumor is that Microsoft is killing the Kinect motion detector. Or at least, not building a connector for a Kinect into their next gaming console, which will mean that its future is looking shady. Which is too bad, because people are doing interesting work with the Kinect. For example, see the video above where they essentially use three Kinect cameras to bring someone’s full body into virtual reality with them. The interesting part is where he changes the view and basically gets a virtual out of body experience. Hopefully, this won’t mean the end of projects like this – think if you could set down some 3-D cameras at a historical site on the other side of the world and load that up instead of the office in this picture? Virtual out of body field trips.