Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it's pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap Motion for just $70.
Most of us wouldn’t own an iPhone or Android smartphone if a carrier like AT&T or Verizon wasn’t subsidizing some of the cost. Now it looks like gamers may be able to expect similar deals — at least with the Xbox 360, if the rumors are true.
Hold onto your Daedric helmets kids, because things are about to get real nerdy. Today, Microsoft announced that it is releasing Kinect support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim later this month.
A long time ago at a convention center far, far away, Microsoft promised gamers a Star Wars adventure using the Xbox 360′s Kinect motion-sensing camera. A new video shows just how far Kinect Star Wars has strayed from that ideal.
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid motion, and the lag can be application-breaking, but in a rudimentary sense, it gets the job done. Wouldn’t it be great if future versions could juggle more body parts simultaneously?
Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Here’s my wishlist.
Bodymetrics lets you try on clothes without actually trying on clothes by leveraging the technology behind Microsoft’s $150 Kinect camera to create a precise 3D model of your body that mimics your movements as an on-screen avatar. When a particular item of clothing has been mapped in the same way, you’re able to see exactly how it would look on you in real life.
Sorry, party photographers, you’ve been replaced—by a robot. Microsoft’s new EDDIE (short for Expandable Development Discs for Innovation and Experimentation) can now roam a crowded room, focus on people’s faces and snap photos with a fancy DSLR camera.
Price drops. They can be handy. Just ask Nintendo. The company’s challenges with the just-launched 3DS have been well-documented, but their recent price drop on the handheld has spiked sales.
Child of Eden is currently my favorite Kinect game. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s latest masterpiece makes me feel artsy and connected and like I’m floating in the future. All good things, to be sure.
I’ll be honest with you, Techland readers: I haven’t played a Kinect game in months. Yes, motion-control titles have continued to roll out since the blockbuster launch of Microsoft’s skeletal-tracking camera but none of them, to me, offered anything to get excited about. And, yes, I mean you, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Carnival Games [...]
