A hack for the Xbox 360 Kinect may result in players of World or Warcraft actually getting off their behinds to cast spells and controlling the game with the gesture based controller. The team from the University of Southern California (USC) has created an interface that they hope will bring movement into games that traditionally require no more than the use of a gamers...
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A few days ago the blogosphere was buzzing with news that Kinect Porn would land before the year is out and it seems there was actually truth in the rumours as today it has actually appeared. Obviously it’s a hack and not an official game but does fully use the Kinect movement interface to control, well the users actions. The adult themed game has been released by ThriXXX...
It seems that the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops and the Xbox 360 Kinect has made little impact on Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii console sales this week, despite a huge increase in the number of people buying Microsoft’s movement based controller. In fact the week before Kinect’s release the Nintendo Wii outsold the Xbox 360, this trend reversed when the Kinect...
Anyone that doubted the prowess or popularity of the Xbox Kinect will be in for a shock today as the latest figures suggest Microsoft have sold an average 100,000 units per day over the past ten days in the UK and US alone – that’s 1 million Kinect units sold already. An official statement was posted on Microsoft’s website which explained the companies target...
Over the past week many people have been speculating about the Xbox Kinect and the profit Microsoft is likely to make from its latest gaming creation. However it seems those with concern needn’t of worried as each unit only costs £35 to manufacture. The EETimes report appears to show that the £130 charged in the UK turns quite a profit, however the report does not...
A consumer survey of 3000 UK people has revealed that Apple products will be at the top of more peoples Christmas lists than any other gadget this year. According to the vouchercodes.co.uk survey 37% of the people questioned voted the Apple iPad to be the most desirable gift that they would like to receive. The chart topping iPad was closely followed by the iPhone 4 with...
With all the buzz and praise flying around for Microsoft’s XBOX Kinect we find it shocking how different it could have been if Apple had got hold of the technology first, CultofMac has revealed that Apple was actually offered it before any other brand and basically talked themselves out of a deal by being “a pain in the ass”. For those of you who don’t know the...
Christmas is quickly approaching with gadget battle lines drawn across all sectors, one of the biggest will be Sony Vs Microsoft with their PS3 and XBOX 360 consoles, however if a survey by Kelkoo is accurate it seems that the result is a forgone conclusion. According to the survey 1.8 million consoles will be sold on the run up to Christmas, of the 1.8 million an estimated...
Yesterday rumours where rife when an article by Gamespot seemed to show that the new XBOX Kinect motion sensor controller found it difficult to interact and pick up movements of people with darker skin tones – some bloggers started to try and stir up a hornets nest by suggesting the system was racist. Gamespot themselves even admitted that it wasn’t a conclusive problem,...