News Tagged: Kinect
News: Kinect "More Accurate Now Than at Launch" says Microsoft
Getting better all the time
It's official: Microsoft has boosted Kinect's accuracy in the past six months. Xbox senior product manager David Dennis confirmed the software powering the sensor has been updated recently, paving the way for the likes of Kinect Fun Labs and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. I think like we showed at E3, like Kudo showed with Kinect Fun Labs – a lot of that.. Continue Reading »
News: Mother Nature Uses Kinect to Change the World
Well, sort of
We've seen a lot of wish-fulfilment Kinect demos, from lightsabers to invisibility, but the sensor can be used for more conscionable activities too, as Mother Nature proves. A PC game using Kinect for gesture recognition, Mother Nature puts you in the hemp sandals of the deity herself, letting you cultivate life on Earth from the smallest seed upwards. The official description puts it.. Continue Reading »
News: Summer Saturdays Serve Up Fun at Rough Trade East
Britain's top two female table tennis players kick it off with Kinect Sports
This past Saturday saw Kelly Sibley and Joanna Parker, the top ranked table tennis players in Britain, face off at London's Rough Trade East record and media store with Kinect Sports. The event launches Summer Saturdays, to run until 27th August, at which Rough Trade East invites customers to: Come down and enjoy.. Continue Reading »
News: Fruit Ninja Kinect Release Date and Price Confirmed
Coming to fruition in August
We love Fruit Ninja Kinect here at Kinectaku — that much should be obvious from our exhaustive Fruit Ninja Kinect preview. Thankfully, the rest of you will be lucky enough to experience this amazing title on the 10th of August, because it's being launched as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade 2011. The Big M has just confirmed the release date, along with that.. Continue Reading »
News: Thanks to Kinect, Xbox 360 Could Be Around Until 2017
Microsoft man optimistic
The original Xbox only mustered four or five years at retail, but Xbox 360 is heading towards a sixth year on shelves with plenty more to come. The reason behind its continued success, according to Xbox VP of EMEA Chris Lewis, is Kinect. In an interview with UK trade magazine MCV, Lewis called Kinect "a shot of adrenaline" for the console, with the family audience.. Continue Reading »
News: Join The Black Eyed Peas Experience Later This Year
Become Fergie, Will.i.am or the other dudes
Having paid tribute to the King of Pop with Michael Jackson: The Experience, Ubisoft is about to bring another authentic artist experience to Kinect with The Black Eyed Peas Experience. The first teaser trailer is below and already the game seems very different to MJ: TE, looking more like a Dance Central affair at this early stage. We've got a feeling.. Continue Reading »
News: We're Sweating Just Watching this UFC Video
We're going for a sit down
UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System is released this week, and just in time too — we're out of breath just from the look of this video. Scott Ramsdell of the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) explains what makes the new UFC game for Kinect such a good workout in the video below. We've got a copy in our (very) sweaty possession at the moment, and.. Continue Reading »
First Impressions: Fruit Ninja Kinect
Ripening nicely
If you happen to own a modern smartphone then you’ve probably already sampled the delights of Halfbrick’s amazing Fruit Ninja. The game has now registered over 20 million downloads across mobile formats, and rightly so — it’s one of those unique titles that takes a very basic premise (in this case, the slicing and dicing of fruit) and makes it totally and utterly.. Continue Reading »
News: Your First Look at Kinect's Interactive Adverts
This is how they'll work
Kinect is getting interactive adverts, and they look a lot like this. The NUads — that's Natural User Interface Ads — will let you interact with adverts, sharing them via Twitter, receiving more information via email and text and generally doing all sorts of futuristic-style things. We'll let Enrique de la Garza explain. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Will Get Interactive Adverts Next Year
Xbox, buy buy buy!
According to the New York Times, Microsoft is set to unveil a set of interactive Kinect adverts on Tuesday. The paper reports the project, titled NUads, will let gamers use voice commands to share the adverts online: "Xbox Tweet" would send it to Twitter, "Xbox More" would send more information to the user via email and "Xbox Near Me" could display.. Continue Reading »
News: Binary Domain Video Shouts a February 2012 Release
Kinect commands are confirmed
SEGA's all up in the shooter business these days, with this year's superb Vanquish showing others how it's done. The company will be hoping creative lightning strikes twice when Yakuza man Toshihiro Nagoshi's next title Binary Domain releases in February next year. SEGA sent over a new trailer setting the scene for the shooter's story, which also revealed the game's.. Continue Reading »
News: Molyneux - "Kinect has Real Problems"
Lionhead boss spells it out
Peter Molyneux's Project Milo will never make it to gamers, but his studio's next effort Fable: The Journey is pacing its way to Kinect next year. Molyneux recently spoke to Gaming Union about getting to grips with recreating Fable's traditional freedom in a hands-free setting. Speaking with his trademark candour, Molyneux was quick to admit there are serious issues to.. Continue Reading »
News: This Kinect Poker Video Might be Bluffing
We can't tell
Online poker combined with Kinect sounds like a rich goldmine of gameplay experiences, but the video below only gives you a slight whiff of what might be possible when the sensor is brought to the game. Rather than using Kinect's body-tracking to control a human avatar's actions, which would be infinitely useful over the Internet — though potentially very dangerous — the hack.. Continue Reading »
News: SEGA Reaffirms Commitment to Kinect
Still on (hover) board
SEGA's sole contribution to the Kinect catalogue so far is Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, with Rise of Nightmares out soon, but don't expect the publisher's support to stop there. SEGA West president Mike Hayes recently confirmed to Games Industry that the company will continue to release Kinect-compatible games in future: And on Kinect we've definitely bought into that with.. Continue Reading »
News: It's Official, Master Chief is Coming to Kinect
Wave Halo
There's been no end of talk on the Internet about when or if Master Chief or his fellow Spartans would come to Kinect, with 343 Industries suggesting a Halo Wars sequel and a rich discussion about how you would bring Halo to Kinect. Now it's official: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will support Kinect. Phil Spencer of Microsoft Studios made the announcement in an Continue Reading »
Out Now: Kinect SDK Lets You Create Your Own Kinect Apps
And for free!
The Kinect software development kit (SDK) is now available for PC users to create their own applications for Kinect. Here's the official description straight from Microsoft. To start creating your own Kinect applications, download the Kinect SDK here. If you manage to create something cool, be sure to show it off to us! The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a programming toolkit for.. Continue Reading »
News: It's Your Time to Shine with Victorious on Kinect
You're a star
As if High Voltage Software didn't have enough Kinect games on the go, what with Nicktoons MLB and Nickelodeon Dance, the studio's creating another licensed game for the sensor in the form of Victorious: Time to Shine. Based on — you guessed it — a Nickelodeon show, the game lets players act, direct, sing and dance, so it should be just the ticket for parents of precociously.. Continue Reading »
News: Forza 4 Developer: "We're Years Away from New Kinect Genres"
Ideas in the works, though
Peter Molyneux said Kinect will bring new genres and controllers last year, but Forza Motorsport 4 developer Turn 10 Studios thinks we're a way off from new game types just yet. Dan Greenawalt from the studio explained the difficulty in getting new ideas to the Kinect table. Getting an idea to market, especially on a big title, takes years. So it's not a matter of seeing.. Continue Reading »
News: Players in Eye-Tracking Glasses Find Kinect Confusing
What's it all about?
Using Kinect is supposed to be easy for experienced and new gamers alike, but user experience consultancy User Vision has just finished a study that shows the sensor still has work to do. Using eye-tracking glasses, User Vision studied how users played Reflex Ridge in Kinect Adventures, claiming that vital instructions were ignored or misinterpreted: Players found that the.. Continue Reading »
News: Microsoft: Eventually All Our Games Will Use Kinect
This is just the start
Big publishers are already backing Kinect in a big way: Peter Moore took to the E3 stage to announce that, starting next year, all EA Sports games will support Kinect, and Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's games will all get sensor features too. Where does Microsoft stand on the issue, though? Head of Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer has hinted that one day, all the publisher's games will.. Continue Reading »
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