News Tagged: PC
News: Kinect for Windows Available Now
Sensor gets serious support
Microsoft's Kinect for Windows project has finally reached the outside world, as the new hardware and software is released in 12 different countries. The enhanced Kinect hardware includes a new near-focus mode that lets it pick up objects 40cm from its cameras. It also comes with a year's access to software and firmware updates for around $249.99. Beginning today,.. Continue Reading »
News: New Kinect Hardware for Windows Launches on 1st February
New SKU on the way
We told you back in November that Microsoft was creating Kinect hardware just for Windows, and it'll be out on 1st February. The PC-specific sensor has the ability to focus on objects 50cm from its cameras, but it comes at a cost. Kinect for Windows will cost $249 — that's $100 more than the standard Kinect sensor, though the software development kit and runtime will be.. Continue Reading »
News: Microsoft Creating Kinect Hardware Just for Windows
Ready for its close-up
Kinect's had as much use on PC as it has on Xbox 360, and after embracing the possibilities with an official software development kit earlier this year, Microsoft is now putting together a version of Kinect specifically for Windows users. New components and firmware mean the sensor will be able to focus on objects just 50cm from its cameras, greatly increasing its close-up.. Continue Reading »
News: Indie Kinect Game Evade is Strangely Spiritual Looking
Blocks are bad
We're just going to come out and say it: independent PC developers have come up with some of the best stuff for Kinect so far. While we're expected to pay for the likes of Let's Dance with Mel B, anyone who's hooked their Kinect up to a computer can enjoy free indie software just like Evade. The game's premise is pretty obvious: evade blocks that attempt to push you off a platform,.. 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: 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: Kinect Erotics is a Sexy, Sensual, Sensory Overload (NSFW)
Translation: Bit steamy
Carnivals, pets, minigames: these are all fine uses for Kinect's limb-tracking ability, but when the kids have gone to bed you might want to play a slightly different kind of party game. Ubisoft recently caused a bit of a fuss with We Dare on PlayStation Move and Nintendo Wii, but it's nothing compared to the saucy happenings on Kinect title Kinect Erotics. The brainchild of.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Web Browser Beats Michael Phelps at His Own Game
Called SwimBrowser
Water sports simulator Michael Phelps: Push the Limit is coming to Kinect later this year, pledging to bring with it a new way of gaming, but SwimBrowser is using the same sport to create a new way of browsing the web. What sounds like another useless Kinect hack actually looks extremely engaging in the video below, with breaststroke gestures used to go forward and backward.. Continue Reading »
News: Forget Robots, Kinect's Purpose is to Play Angry Birds
Sensor proves its worth
So Kinect can control robots, Japanese superheroes and World of Warcraft characters, but even those three worldwide fantasies pale in comparison to this next Kinect hack: Angry Birds. The App Store phenomenon is now on PC, making it the perfect candidate for an unofficial Kinect makeover. It's not all hands-free though, Continue Reading »
News: Kinect and Wii Combine to Create Call of Duty: Motion Warfare
It was only a matter of time
Kinect will almost certainly never crack the first-person market on Xbox 360, but that hasn't stopped smart coders from adapting the sensor to work with genre classic Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with the use of a very familiar white controller. The combination of Wii Remote and Kinect means precise control over firing, with body movements to dodge, reload, pick up.. Continue Reading »
News: You Never Know, Official Kinect Support May Come to PC
All in good time
The combination of Kinect and PC has resulted in countless interesting applications, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft has taken notice of what's possible when the two are combined. Does that mean the technology giant will release official software allowing you to use Kinect on your PC? Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but some day, if Steve Ballmer's.. Continue Reading »
News: Control Your Level 75 Shaman with World of Warcraft on Kinect
Stay in shape as you grind
We know what you're thinking: there's not enough hours in the day to exercise and feed your World of Warcraft habit, but now you can combine the two with another Kinect hack. Taking a game based on hundreds of hours of key-tapping and mouse-clicking and turning it into a full-body action adventure sounds impossible, but the team at the University of Southern California.. Continue Reading »
News: Throw Away Your Remotes and Control Your TV with Kinect
Take charge of Hulu too
In the home of the future we'll all be able to control our electronic devices with our gestures and voices, but it may come sooner than expected if the wave of Kinect hacks continues at its current pace. We've seen it controlling everything from remote-controlled cars to giant pianos, and now you can use it to control Hulu and live TV. Navigation is done with gestures and a.. Continue Reading »
Rumour: Kinect Support Could Come to PC Games
Ready? Salt it
Kinect is already doing a thousand-and-one interesting things on PC – check out some of our favourite cool Kinect hacks – but it's not done much gaming-related. That could all change, however, if a press release surrounding a new Korean MMO is to be believed. Divine Souls is an MMO for PC scheduled for release in 2011, with developer GamePrix saying: [Divine Souls] is scheduled.. Continue Reading »
News: Gesture-Based Head-Tracking Tetris a Great Mash of Old and New
Weird, though
The other day we showed you a video of Kinect headtracking that could make 3D gaming possible without 3DTVs, and now we have one of the first videos of that technology being put to good use in time-honoured fashion: with a game of Tetris. Taking a top-down perspective not unlike Welltris, you can manipulate the blocks with gestures, sending them flying towards the bottom with a flick.. Continue Reading »
News: Want to See Kinect Driving a Remote-Controlled Car?
Of course you do
Remember the early video of Kinect controlling a miniature robot, responding to human directions? This new application of the sensor takes the idea just a little further, putting Kinect on a remote controlled car and getting it to drive itself around, with no human interaction other than a gentle starting push. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen Kinect driving a car.. Continue Reading »
News: It's 2054 and Minority Report's Interface is Now Operational
Next stop: jetpacks
This isn't the first Minority Report-style interface created with Kinect, and we'll wager a large sum of money on it being far from last, but it is one of the best efforts we've seen so far. Created by MIT students, the hack shows off some of the interface's more complex features including grabbing, rotating and trashing objects with specific gestures, with the sensor even.. Continue Reading »
News: Make Your Christmas Lights a Little More Interactive with Kinect
Beats the clapper any day
It must be admitted that this is hardly the most practical of uses for Kinect, but it's more about spreading festive cheer than a huge leap forward in mankind's scientific understanding. The hack below uses the OpenKinect software to interact with light-dimming hardware to produce a beautiful light show when connected to these custom LED arrays. You can turn them on or off.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Can Cover Your Modesty in a Range of Fashionable Styles
Bras, CDs and more
You've probably heard – or even been the subject of – stories in which people play Kinect, get a little sweaty and decide to disrobe, unaware of the camera's keen interest in recording such embarrassing moments for ever. What if there were a way to superimpose modesty-saving clothing onto your body? Well, there's a Kinect hack for that. Dan Wilcox's canny Kinect code tracks.. Continue Reading »
News: Become Tom Hanks in Big with Kinect's Giant Piano Hack
Heart and soul
Kinect can be used to create art but what about music? Yep, that too, with this Kinect piano hack letting players tickle the ivories with no keyboard required. As well as being able to project a piano onto a desk it can also be used to create enormous keyboards on the floor, not unlike the classic scene from Big. This is another application with interesting potential, though there's.. Continue Reading »
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