Microsoft’s Lync platform aims to “integrate the family room into the board room”.

At a Microsoft event yesterday, the company unveiled plans to integrate its Lync video conferencing platform with its Kinect device.

Lync is intended to provide cross-platform video conferencing for mobiles, PCs and browsers.

During a presentation at the event, Chris Capossela, senior VP of Information Worker Product Management, said a team was developing a “seamless update” that will bring Lync compatibility to Kinect.

Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate VP of Office Lync and Speech, said: “what we've done is really connected the game or the family room, living room scenario with the work scenario”.

Though a date was not disclosed for the Kinect update, Singh Pall said it would be “coming out shortly” and added: “The fact that there are a million Kinects sold within the first few days, there's clearly a lot of excitement around that. We're very happy to bridge the Kinect network, the Windows Live network, the Lync enterprises, Lync Online together to form a really rich, federated network.”

We recently looked at the various ways that Kinect has been hacked by users since launch earlier this month.