Microsoft skeleton to bring its Kinect technology to bear on personal computers subsequent to its unusual success with the gesticulate and voice-recognition sensor in the Xbox 360 game console.

“I’m on cloud nine to publicize that Kinect is forthcoming to Windows on February 1,” Microsoft arch senior manager Steve Ballmer mentioned in his last keynote residence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), that opens in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

“We’re already using over 200 companies on unique Kinect for Windows applications,” inclusive American Express , Mattel, Telefonica, Toyota and the United Health Group , he told a full dance hall at the Venetian road house on Monday.

“The extent of what they’re carrying out is mind-blowing,” Ballmer said, without providing serve details.

Microsoft has shipped more than