Kinect hacks have been popping up all over the place since Microsoft launched their motion based controller late in 2010 and now Microsoft has revealed they will release the non-commercial development kit in late spring 2011. This doesn’t mean free for all hacks but instead will allow academic institutions and communities to create “richer experiences using Kinect...
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There’s no doubt that the Microsoft Xbox Kinect has been a wild success story so far with one of the most popular titles being Kinectimals. The game encourages children, animal lovers and general gamers alike to play with and develop relationships with animals from all over the globe. Your surrogate pet responds to your commands, comes running when you call it and can...
An email from Microsoft has suggested that a rapid increase in XBOX 360 sales over the festive period could result in a shortfall of the consoles in the next few months. The increase in console sales was predominantly down to the release of Microsoft motion based controller Kinect. In fact December saw Microsoft shift 1.9 million XBOX 360 consoles, a record for the device...
A presentation at the CES 2011 by the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer aimed to prove to consumers that Windows has the “breadth and depth and flexibility” to maintain its reputation for excellence and stay at the head of the computing market for years to come. His display, which was streamed live on Facebook and on the Microsoft site, was largely based around how in the...
News has arrived on the fourth instalment of the epic racing game Forza Motorsport 4, it has been revealed that the game will use the brand new Microsoft Xbox Kinect controller for some of the games movements, but don’t let you put that off because the good old hand-held controller will still be used for most things – it might be a little weird otherwise. Solid details...
The chief engineer of the insanely popular Playstation Move has decided to up the ante by proclaiming that the Microsoft XBOX Kinect is a system is ‘not quite up to spec”. All of this comes at the same time that Sony releases their sales figures so far – 4.1 million units apparently. Anton Mikhailov revealed “We’re not necessarily against Kinect or against...
Last week we spoke about this year’s top Christmas gadget, a survey suggested that Apple would rule the roost with their iPhone 4 and iPad tablet. The third party survey was taken in October, way before the Kinect was released and before the thought of Christmas had really taken hold. Over the last week we have talked about demand out stripping supply on both the Playstation...
Anybody that’s owned a cat will tell you that training it anything it doesn’t want to learn is virtually impossible. Sure, it’ll soon learn that food is in the cupboard and that breakfast time is always ten minutes before you wake up. They’re also quite adapt at learning that scratching will stop you from stroking their bellies and hissing will...
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