News Tagged: Kinect
News: UFC Personal Trainer to get Gamers Fitter on April Fool's Day
No pain, no game
Kinect might be able to make gamers feel like they're Tom Cruise in Minority Report, but it could also make gamers feel like they're competing in a Mixed Martial Arts fight too. Well, maybe not fight like an MMA fighter, but certainly train like one. As revealed in THQ's fiscal report, the upcoming UFC Personal Trainer is set to be one of the publisher's key titles during the March.. Continue Reading »
Talking Point: What Future Features Do You Want From Kinect?
The sky's the limit!
Kinect's been out worldwide for a while now, long enough for many of us to become accustomed to the technology and what it can do. Voice recognition, automatic signing into your profile when it recognises your face, video chat online – it's not just a game controller, it's a brand new interface, and it's only going to get better. Kudo Tsunoda, Kinect's creative director,.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect's Core Offering to Blast Off in 2011
Lots on the way
There's no two ways about it: Kinect's current software line-up isn't aimed at the core gamer. That won't be the case forever though, Microsoft's UK marketing maestro Stephen McGill assures us. Referring to the Tokyo Game Show revelations of the return of Steel Battalion and Suda51's codename: D, McGill says Microsoft has plenty more titles like that up its sleeves: We'll start.. Continue Reading »
News: Aaron Greenberg Enjoys a Chuckle at Kinect "Sales Figures"
VGChartz providing the mirth
Solid hardware and software sales figures are hard to come by for any machine or game, but website VGChartz claims to have the most accurate figures due to several scientific methods including surveying gamers, statistical trend-fitting and studying resale prices to estimate supply and demand. How accurate are these figures? Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg finds them.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect on PC Offers Multi-Touch Inputs
Sensory depth
Kinect's launch "scratch the surface" of its potential according to Kudo Tsunoda, and enterprising engineers have already coded several interesting applications for the sensor for PC and Mac. Navigating the 360 dashboard and in-game is done by using the hand closest to the sensor, but as this video below shows Kinect is capable of tracking two hands at once, a little like.. Continue Reading »
News: How Much Do Kinect's Components Cost?
You might be surprised
Considering the first Kinect prototype cost $30,000, you might be surprised to learn how cheaply Kinect can now be manufactured. According to a teardown by UBM TechInsights, the cost of Kinect's components is just $56, impressively affordable when you consider the amount of technology inside the sensor (see our list at the bottom of this post). Microsoft has stated that.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Helps to Liberate Women, the Living Room Gatekeepers
Too cool for Zuul
Kinect is a little something for everyone, but it represents Microsoft's biggest push yet to make the Xbox 360 the centre of the living room in a similar way to Nintendo's tactic with the Wii at launch. Who better to convince that Kinect belongs in the living room than the living room gatekeeper: the women of the family. That's what Belinda Parmar of ladygeek.com reckons, saying.. Continue Reading »
News: Sense Kinect Star Wars' Christmas Presents in 2011
Dark Christmas next year
When the Kinect Star Wars trailer was shown at E3 2010, it provided a glimpse of what's in store for gamers who are partial to a bit of lightsaber-waving. It's still launching in 2011 and Kinect's creative director, Kudo Tsunoda, has confirmed to BBC Newsbeat that a Christmas 2011 release is on the cards. We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect's Launch Features "Scratch the Surface" of its Potential
Expect evolution
If you've been toying around with your Kinect sensor you're hopefully pretty impressed with what it's capable of, but Kinect's creative director Kudo Tsunoda wants you to know things are going to get even better in the future. Speaking at the Kinect launch event in London last night, Tsunoda said: Xbox Live is a much different service today than when it first launched through.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect's European Launch is Hours Away
Will you be going to a midnight launch?
Following its successful launch across North America last week, Kinect prepares to storm Europe from midnight tonight, with thousands of stores across the continent opening at the stroke of 12 to let gamers get their hands on the sensor. Many stores are operating on enough stock for pre-orders only, so it might be a wise idea to contact your local store.. Continue Reading »
News: GameStop Expects Kinect to Triumph in Motion Controller Wars
Sensor exceeds expectations
With a few days of sales under its motion-sensing belt, how's Kinect doing according to GameStop, North America's biggest chain of game stores? Very well indeed; in fact, so well that the chain is backing the sensor to come out on top against rival system PlayStation Move. Bob McKenzie, Gamestop's senior VP of merchandising and marketing is gave his thumbs-up to the.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect is "As Accurate as a Control Pad" says David Braben
Motion control final for Frontier
You may think Kinect can't offer the kind of precision afforded by analogue sticks, triggers, buttons and bumpers, but according to Frontier bossman and industry legend David Braben you'd be wrong. Braben, whose cutesy pet title Kinectimals is a launch title for the sensor, says the perceived accuracy of shooters on console is due to the way they've been fashioned,.. Continue Reading »
News: Share Your Experiences in Our New Kinect Forums!
Chat with fellow fans of 360 motion
Now that Kinect is available in the US, with a European launch just days away, let us present to you the ideal area in which to discuss your hopes, dreams and experiences with Kinect: the KINECTaku forums! Full of lively banter, thought-provoking discussion, wild conspiracy theories and folks just out for a good time, the forums are the place to be. Got a Kinect.. Continue Reading »
News: That Didn't Take Long! Kinect Claims its First TV Victim
You can imagine the tears
You'd think with no controller there'd be no chance of breaking your TV using Kinect: nothing to fly out of your hand, right? You'd be right but oh so wrong. Writer Phil Villarreal has outed himself as the first self-confessed moron to suffer an audiovisual malfunction at the controller-free hands of Kinect. His story, brief and wrought with anguish, is a lesson to us all:.. Continue Reading »
News: Video Kinect Connects With Your Windows Live Messenger Buddies
Best displayed with a cheesy video
Video Kinect isn't just for linking two faraway Kinect-owning Xbox 360 players: it can also be used to video chat with computer users of Windows Live Messenger. This latest video from Microsoft shows the software in motion from the perspective of the PC user as well as the Kinect owner, as well as showing off more exciting features including the camera's.. Continue Reading »
News: Get Your First Look at the Insides of a Kinect Sensor
See where the money goes
You'd expect Kinect to be housing some serious technology, perhaps even an invisible wizard, and you'd be right (maybe not about the wizard), as website iFixit has torn a sensor to pieces for your study and curiosity. With no fewer than 12 microprocessors handling everything from voice amplification to processing 3D images, four downward-pointing microphones for speech.. Continue Reading »
News: Reports of "Racist" Kinect Down to Poor Lighting
Sensationalism balloon: deflating
We intentionally avoiding joining in the storm-in-a-teacup started by Gamespot's suggestion that Kinect struggled with dark-skinned users, but now the rumour has been disproved by Consumer Reports, the site that overcame a similar rumour about racist HP laptops last year. Ignoring for a moment the fact that computer equipment can't be racist, the problem is due to.. Continue Reading »
News: Expect Surprises at the Official UK Kinect Launch Party Next Week
Hosted at London's Oxford Street store
It'll have to go some way to top Kinect's New York launch party, but the UK's official celebration of all things Kinect kicks off on Tuesday night at Game's flagship Oxford Street store. In a bizarre twist, Video Kinect will be used to talk to the first person in the queue at the chain's Leeds store, with "mystery special guests" attending to chat to.. Continue Reading »
News: Not Every Kinect Game Will be Button-Free
"Hybrid" games for pad exist too
The overwhelming message from Microsoft's multi-million pound advertising campaign for Kinect is "you are the controller", but the Xbox 360 pad is also a controller. Couldn't the two be combined? Yes, yes they could. Alex Kipman, creator of Kinect, revealed in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that so-called "hybrid" games that utilise Kinect.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect is Just Hours Away from Hitting the US
Are you getting excited?
If you're in North America, just a few short hours stand between you and owning your very own Kinect for Xbox 360. Midnight launches are happening up and down the country tonight, with a very special launch event in New York's Times Square Toys 'R' Us store just having kicked off. What's so special about it? The first 3,000 gamers to buy Kinect receive free copies of Kinect.. Continue Reading »
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