A research group from MIT’s Media Lab has leveraged commercially available technology to transmit holographic video over the internet.
And like any hologram demo worth its salt, one of the group’s members donned full Princess Leia garb to re-enact the fabled “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope,” scene from Star …
Hulu Plus is continuing its slow journey towards being available everywhere, with the announcement that the paid streaming television on demand service is now available on Vizio Internet-connected HDTVs, and will soon be available on Vizio Blu-Ray players and select Android phones. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced the partnerships at CES …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a keynote address on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, focusing on his company’s Xbox 360 entertainment initiatives, the new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform, and what we can expect to see from future versions of Windows PCs.
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Get ready for more motion sensor controlled gaming. PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created the depth sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect, announced today that they will be bringing that technology to a device for the PC. The WAVI Xtion Media Center for the PC will use the PrimeSense Immersive Natural Interaction technology – you know, …
We all know Santa knows magic and that’s how he’s able to visit every kid’s house in the world on Christmas Eve, but today’s Santa might be able to make his biggest working days of the year easier by investing in some of the latest technologies.
From a translator so he can read every kid’s Christmas list to a high-tech sleigh that GE …
Whoever says that video games don’t sell anymore just needs to look at November’s stats.
“November sales represent the best November on record in terms of new physical retail sales,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier wrote in the company’s latest report according to Ars Technica. “It bests November 2008 by roughly $30 million, and that time …
So much for your parents telling you that staying in to play video games was bad for you. A new study has shown that acute pain is adults and children can be reduced by just playing on your console.
(More on TIME.com: Top 5 Uses of Your Kinect Besides Gaming)
“Acute pain is shown to be noticeably reduced in children and adult …
The Kinect might be Microsoft’s new add-on to their Xbox 360, but many gamers are finding other uses for it. Kinect hacks are growing in popularity and showing that the technology might be useful for more than gaming. Here’s some of our favorite modifications for the Kinect that we think will revolutionize your life.
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In the never ending battle of Microsoft versus Apple, score one point for the PC giant. Many consumers thought that Microsoft was making bold claims when they said the Kinect would outsell the iPad by moving over 1 million units in 28 days. Kinect sold that amount in about 1/3 of the time – just 10 days.
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So what does Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-control camera really do as it’s capturing your movements? One enterprising individual turned to the magic of night vision optics to find out.
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The result looks like an eerie blanket of stars from far away, and a mono-colored Lite Brite …
Millions of dollars and man-hours have gone into making Xbox Kinect a revolutionary input device that points the way to the future of gaming. Microsoft would probably like to keep the Kinect recipe all to itself, but this is 2010 and things like that just don’t happen any more.
The iFixit website’s the home of open-source, …
Microsoft’s been trying to position Kinect as not just a new peripheral for their resurgent Xbox 360, but as a new console. The way they’ve handled the marketing and the dissemination of information about Kinect bears all the hallmarks of carefully managed ambition. But, ultimately, its impact will get driven by how developers and …
