According to an earlier-this-week report in The Daily, Microsoft is apparently mulling the possibility of allowing OEMs to include its Kinect technology into their Windows 8 laptops; with the Kinect-enabled laptop users seemingly set to get the advantage of interacting with Windows 8 or playing motion-controlled games just like their Xbox 360 Kinect counterparts!

The likelihood of the Kinect technology coming aboard laptops was first highlighted by the Kinect chip manufacturer PrimeSense in 2010, when it said that it would sign a PC partnership with Microsoft by the year-end.

Despite the fact that the association did not work out at that time, The Daily now claims to have seen a pair of Asus laptops which had built-in Kinect sensors, displayed at the top of their screens.

Though The Daily has also disclosed that the devices have not actually been seen in action, it can still be believed, at least to some extent, that a motion-gesture interface could be used as an substitute for an expensive touchscreen --- more so because of the manner in which the interface of Microsoft's Windows 8 software has been built.

Going by earlier reports, over and above its development around the usual mouse-and-keyboard view, the Windows 8 is also built around a tile-based "Metro" tablet-style, touch-manipulative interface.

Based on the indications, The Daily report has also concluded that device makers are apparently well on their way to manufacture Windows 8-powered laptops - or least some prototypes - which have aboard them the Kinect motion camera hardware rather than the regular webcams.