The one message that Microsoft drove home during their E3 2011 press conference is that they’re going to give everyone–from hardcore gamers to avid TV watchers to casual players–reason to turn on their hyper-successful motion-sensing peripheral.
Xbox exec Marc Whitten claimed that the goal is to “get the technology out of your …
Adding to Sony’s ongoing hack-attack tribulations, Microsoft’s taking a victory lap today, claiming its Xbox 360 games console outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 during the first four months of 2011.
Microsoft claims that, life-to-date, it’s sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide (out of 38 countries) and that “sales are accelerating.” …
Once again, leave it to hackers to turn something trivial and fun into something useful. A group of French hackers have repurposed a Kinect to become, as they call it, “a gesture recognition system” – in other words, something that can potentially read and translate sign language.
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You know all that slightly eerie but kinda cool stuff you learned in grade school about the body’s latent electromagnetic energy field? Turns out your house generates something similar (no surprise) courtesy everything with an electrical pulse contained both within, from gizmos and gadgetry to the wiring in the walls.
Forget …
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Hulu Plus comes to Xbox Live toady, and Microsoft let me have an early look along with a Kinect loaner unit to check out voice and motion controls.
If you’re not familiar with Hulu Plus, it’s an $8 per month streaming movie service focused mainly on …
It took long enough, but Kinect support for Netflix is finally with us–you can download it now, and I’m typing this up from my living room where it’s been running the past few hours.
I haven’t plugged the Kinect sensor into my Xbox 360 for months (sorry, not a fan of motion-tracking tech that tends to lag and misinterpret me half …
Right, you’re saying, because tooling around in a plush La-Z-Boy has so many practical uses, but extrapolate from this Kinect hack and you might imagine all sorts of serious medical applications–say motion-controlled stairlifts, or wheelchairs that respond to twists of your head. Also, less serious ones, say trips to the fridge for a …
Did you stare droolingly at last Friday’s Gmail Motion news? The idea was that you’d use your computer’s camera to capture your own gestures, which would in turn be translated into commonly-used Gmail commands. Did you cry at your desk when you found out it was an April Fools’ Day joke?
Makes you wish you had an office with a door …
Microsoft has a hit on its hands with Kinect, a motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360, but it’s not keeping the secrets of the technology to itself.
A new video, courtesy of New Scientist (and embedded above), shows how Kinect’s camera first grabs a rough outline of the person standing in front of it, and then evaluates every pixel …
The ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan’s eastern regions have video games companies temporarily shuttering online game servers and delaying imminent releases.
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix said it would shut down online roleplaying games Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI, as well as its PlayOnline service, to help …
Microsoft’s “Kinect” hands-free motion control peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.
Kinect “sold through an average of 133,333 units per day, for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale,” says Guinness. The “sold through” part …
Microsoft’s made history with the record-setting launch of the Kinect sensor for their Xbox 360. While the games released at launch were generally a bit twee, much of the buzz around the device came from hackers who made Kinect useful in ways that weren’t necessarily intended. Everything from holography to Super Mario interoperability to …
