Kinect
New Star Wars Xbox 360 bundle has been finally revealed. Last week at Comic-Con, Microsoft and LucasArts unveiled a limited edition Star Wars-themed Xbox 360 Kinect console.
Boasting a 320GB hard drive system skinned in R2-D2’s iconic blue and a white, a custom white Kinect sensor and a C-3PO-themed wireless controller, the kit itself… Continue reading
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Verizon Wireless’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, HTC Trophy, is soon to arrive this May 26. This will cost you $149.99, after rebate. Nationwide talk and a data plan will start at $70 a month.
What sets this phone apart?
Windows Phone is the only phone that lets you play games with Xbox LIVE. Customers… Continue reading
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Netflix on Xbox 360 has got a major update, which now includes support for controlling the experience using Kinect for Xbox 360 peripheral.
Now you will be able to control Netflix user interface by various gestures, such as waving of hand, and voice.
“Today we released an update to the Netflix experience on Xbox 360. The
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A free public beta has been released, called KinEmote, which would allow Windows users to navigate XBMC and Boxee menus using nothing but hand gestures.
I guess the Kinect hacks were not alone enough on a daily basis, so the release would be useful. KinEmote is built around OpenNI and NITE middleware from PrimeSense, the company behind… Continue reading
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The day xBox Kinect got hacked the developers are tying their best to bring a new use to the controller. Today a team from Robot Locomotion Group and learning Intelligent Systems at MIT has managed to make Kinect detect all the ten fingers, along with palms to make Minority Report style interaction with the display.
As in the video below, they’ve attached the hacked setup to a little picture-scrolling… Continue reading
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Visualization researcher Oliver Kreylos has hacked into the xBox 360 controller and turned it into a true 3D video camera. The developer used a custom software that interpolated and reconstructed the video stream fed from the controller and color cameras. The result is an awesome 3D virtual reality than can be manipulated by the user at will.
Here is the video:
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The new $150 just released Kinect allows you to do certain complex stuff which you simply couldn’t do with a Wii remote or PlayStation Move. It’s a true Controller-free motion gaming; full-body motion sensor; with solid game library and voice control.
So what are the top five games released for it yet, let’s have a look.
- Dance Central
Is your body ready for some exercise? Microsoft finally pulls off the curtains from its new $150 Kinect, which is an extraordinary piece of futuristic technology.
The new motion controller for Xbox 360 makes use of a range of cameras and microphones to let a player control videogames using only body and voice, promising a new level… Continue reading
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Here is some good news: Xbox Live fall update targets voice chat. As reported by UK news site Eurogamer, Xbox Live Studios general manager Jerry Johnson said as part of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that the publisher plans to update Xbox Live’s audio codec to provide better voice communication through the service as part of this… Continue reading
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Here we have captured something interesting for you from the house of Microsoft! Yes, a patent application details leaked reveals that soon Microsoft’s Kinect will recognize American Sign Language (ASL). To add more, Kinect will build a dynamic wireframe representation or the so-called “skeletal mapping” of the player’s body, and then tracks that to recognize various gestures and… Continue reading
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