Today Oracle OpenWorld Latin America 2011, now in its fifth year, opened to 11,000 attendees making it the largest gathering of Oracle technology customers, developers, partners and prospects in Latin America. The conference event runs through December 8, 2011 at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“Honestly, what we know about here at Microsoft is but a tiny fraction of what is actually going on,” said Bill Crounse, a medical doctor and Microsoft’s senior director of worldwide health, referring to medical uses of Kinect. “Everywhere I go in the world – every hospital, college or public health organization, people are already doing something with Kinect or they plan to.”
Even as Kinect was enjoying unprecedented consumer success, the device was taking on another life of its own outside the living room as scientists, tinkerers, educators, hobbyists and healthcare workers started dreaming up and creating non-gaming applications for the device.
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