By Dr. Evelyn Reed | January 01, 0001 | 7 min read
The Xbox 360’s fancy motion-sensing camera Kinect may cost you $149, but according

to a report from UBM

Tech Insights, it costs Microsoft a whole lot
Yono all app less. UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was that each of the cameras costs

Microsoft approximately $56, of which the single biggest expenditure is Israeli company PrimeSense’s “reference system” of cameras, microphones and processor, which clocks in at $17.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({
Yono all app playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); When Microsoft said it would be selling every single Kinect at a profit, it sure wasn’t kidding. https://kotaku.com/the-first-ever-kinect-cost-a-lot-more-than-149-5673312 We’ve asked Microsoft to comment on the report, and will update if we
Yono all app hear back. Kinect’s BOM roughly $56, teardown finds [EE|Times]