OREANDA-NEWS. February 14, 2012. Tallinn University of Technology researchers are linking up with Microsoft to develop services based on the company's Kinect technology.

A competition that wound up this week at the University aimed to generate innovative ideas in the field of telemedicine and teleconferencing, navigation systems, indoor navigation, health care, facial recognition and manufacturing process management.

Kinect is is a motion sensing device for the Xbox 360 video game console.

The competition winners were Olev Martens of the University of Technology's Thomas Johann Seebeck electronics institute, associate professor with the information science institute Innar Liiv and student Henri Hallik.