Developer Kinect leaves Microsoft for Google

To new adventures Shortly after helping to create the new device Kinect for Xbox 360, a key figure behind the project, Johnny Chung Lee, decided to leave Microsoft. This was announced in an official himself on his blog: "Lately, I left Microsoft to join a team of interior designers at Google," said Lee, "after more than two and a half years as a core contributor to the detection algorithms human Kinect, it was a very difficult choice to make and I have left many older workers in Redmond.

" About what is working now at the "special projects team" Google is currently not known. Source: Engaadget

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