News Tagged: The Future
News: Rare Talks Kinect's Past Problems and Future Promise
Where is it going?
No matter what you make of Kinect's current games line-up or its future potential, you can't argue the past 12 months have been anything but fascinating: watching developers create new concepts to fit a button-free body-tracking control system, with all the success and struggle that brings with it. One studio that's been integral to Kinect so far is UK developer Rare, and its.. Continue Reading »
News: Xbox 360 Celebrates One Year of "The Kinect Effect"
What's next?
It's hard to believe, but Kinect has its first birthday this week. Released in North America on 4th November 2010 and Europe on 10th November, the sensor has shifted over 10 million units worldwide and generated more body sweat than the Wii Remote every dreamt of. Microsoft is keen to stress that the future of Kinect is even more exciting than the past, and has put together a video.. Continue Reading »
News: More Interactive Kinect TV Details Surface
Learn more about magic
Last week we reported on Microsoft's plans for interactive TV with Kinect, and now we have updated fact sheets for the Sesame Street and National Geographic projects. It's worth saying this isn't strictly interactive television as the video content will come on DVD, but we're just splitting hairs now and "interactive DVDs" isn't quite right either. Semantics aside,.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Expands to Interactive TV and Books with New Deal
Is there nothing it can't do?
After the roaring success of Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, it's not surprising to learn that the collaboration between Kinect and Sesame Street is far from over. Microsoft has just announced a wide range of new interactive applications for Kinect, exploring all-new frontiers including interactive television and storybooks based on a range of media including.. Continue Reading »
News: New Patent Suggests Kinect Can Tell Your Age
Blocks inappropriate content too
Kinect has no end of patents connected to it, but one of the more interesting registrations has just surfaced online, suggesting that the sensor can work out a player's age. Using its skeletal maps, Kinect could be able to discern the likely age of anyone in its viewing range, and block inappropriate content accordingly. We don't just mean not letting little Jimmy.. Continue Reading »
News: Your Next Fun Labs Add-On is Air Band
Get your fake instruments
We've just reviewed Kinect Sparkler but as Kudo Tsunoda said, Kinect Fun Labs is just getting started. The next step up the virtual gameplay ladder looks like being Kinect Fun Labs: Air Band, if a USK rating is anything to go by. Siliconera spotted the rating the other day, though the rating carried nothing more than the game's name. We reckon it'll be a musical experience.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Fun Labs Designed to Ease Pain of Waiting for Games
So says Tsunoda
Kinect creative director Kudo Tsunoda is famous for two things: talking about Kinect and wearing sunglasses all the time. In a recent interview with Edge he's combined his two favourite pastimes to discuss the future of virtual toybox Kinect Fun Labs. Tsunoda revealed that he main reason behind the service's release was to take the edge off waiting for full games for the sensor:.. 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: 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 »
News: Analyst: New Xbox and New Kinect May Be Unveiled in 2012
Gaze into the crystal ball
Recent rumours suggested we'd see a new Xbox console at E3 next month, but these were quickly squashed and thrown away. But next year? That's much more likely, according to M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon. The brilliantly named analyst believes the new machine could be shown off at next year's E3 if Xbox 360 sales begin to slow down over the next six months. Central to.. Continue Reading »
News: Microsoft Already Building the Future of Kinect Hardware
Next Xbox in the works too
Having spent millions of dollars developing Kinect you won't be surprised that the company is keen to keep advancing the technology, with a recent job posting pointing towards new versions of the device. While the advert doesn't give any solid information as to what the future of Kinect may be, it does confirm that it plays a big part in Microsoft's plans for the future.. 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 »
