Microsoft Kinect to Help Walmart Get Rid of Cashiers
Channel: Zorch Central
Date: 2018-06-16

The Kinect is not entirely head. As a peripheral for the Xbox, yes, but for other applications not so much. Azure is a cloud computing service by Microsoft that competes directly with Amazon Web Services or AWS. A lot of sites run on AWS, sites like Netflix and Reddit and more. A little over a year ago Amazon opened their Amazon Go stores where you go in, take something off the shelf, walk out, and you're billed on your Amazon account. It isn't a flawless technology so Amazon is trying to perfect it so they can offer it to retailers. Microsoft is competing with Amazon Go by partnering with Walmart to develop a similar technology using Project Kinect for Azure and AI. In a few years, you'll be able to walk into a Walmart and walk out of the store without stopped at a cashier and be billed on your Walmart account. It is coming whether we like it or not.

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