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News: Steel Battalion Gets Kinect's Most Opulent Special Edition
Includes a jacket
The original Steel Battalion is infamous for its enormous controller, but the Kinect-compatible Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor isn't going down the "massive equipment" route with its special edition. No, it's taking the "dress up" approach instead. The game's Japan-only special edition includes a cosplay outfit.. Continue Reading »
News: 18 Million Kinect Sensors Sold Worldwide
Quite a number
Microsoft revealed at CES that 18 million Kinect sensors have been sold around the world since it launched in November 2010. While an impressive milestone, it should be noted that Kinect sales have slowed since launch. Last April, Microsoft reported 10.5 million Kinect sensors had been sold in its first six months; eight months on, and with a successful holiday season behind it,.. Continue Reading »
News: 750,000 Kinect Sensors Sold in Thanksgiving Week
Wow
Selling 10 million sensors around the world in one year is an impressive achievement for Microsoft, but selling 750,000 in just one week in the United States is pretty impressive too. Major Nelson confirms that over 750,000 sensors were shifted during Black Friday week. That figure includes bundles and standalone sensors. It'll be interesting to see if the rush for Kinect has a positive effect.. Continue Reading »
News: When You Wish Upon a Monster, This Happens
In October
It's been a while since that fateful E3 performance of Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, and now we have a fresh trailer showing more of Double Fine's upcoming puppet-'em-up. The children and parents in this video dive into the brightly-coloured world, and you'll be able to join them when the game is released in October 2011. Will you be picking this up for your little ones? 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 »
E3 2011: US Xbox Site Leaks Ryse, Dance Central 2 and More
Someone's having a bad day
The domain names we reported on earlier were interesting but not really solid confirmation of upcoming Kinect titles; companies register domain names all the time, just to be on the safe side. No, what we really needed for solid proof was the US Xbox site to go live with big announcements before the E3 show kicked off. Thank goodness that's exactly what's happened, then.. Continue Reading »
News: Strong Kinect Sales Help Microsoft to 50% More Profit
Shake your money maker
Microsoft has just announced its financial results for the first 3 months of 2011, and its Entertainment & Devices Division (EDD) has reported big increases in revenue and profit, thanks in part to the success of Kinect and the new Xbox 360 S. The division posted a 50% jump in profits, raking in $225m in a three month period. The growth is partially attributed to Kinect,.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Light-Writing Display Spruces Up Shop Window
Nordstrom gets funky
This isn't the first time we've seen Kinect used for interesting things other than gaming — check out some of the previous Kinect hacks — but it is the first time we recall the sensor being used to advertise products in a shop window. Fashion chain Nordstrom recently planted a sensor in the window of its downtown Seattle store, encouraging passers-by to step up to the.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect Input Lag Could Be Cut to Under 5 Milliseconds
Limb-tracking gets faster
When developers take the time to minimise Kinect input lag it's barely noticeable, but the sensor's response time could get even faster in future, according to a newly published Microsoft research paper. Essentially, the current method works out which of your limbs is which and then tracks them, frame-to-frame, says researcher Harry Fairhead: The basic idea is that if you.. Continue Reading »
News: Interactive Kinect Installation to Promote Ghost in the Shell Film
We're not meching this up
Kinect and robots: the Adam and Eve of Skynet. We've already seen the two join forces, with human-controlled robots and room-navigating bots, and now a new installation in Japan is allowing the public to enter the cybernetic world of Ghost in the Shell. The event promotes upcoming 3D movie Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society, which may well have.. Continue Reading »
News: Witness the Incredible Graphics of Milo's World
Shame it's canned, really
It was supposed to be one of Kinect's crown jewels: Lionhead's Milo & Kate, a game about a virtual reality boy and your friendship, was to show off the sensor's prowess like none other. Complex voice recognition, object scanning, sophisticated AI — it seemed too good to be true and so it proved, as the project was cancelled late last year. Since then, fascinating.. 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: This Child of Eden Video Will Remind You it's Beautiful
Makes wait seem infinite
Child of Eden is right up there on most gamers' "most wanted Kinect games" lists, particularly ours here at Kinectaku, and this video doing the rounds at retailers has only cemented its position as the most beautiful game on the way to the sensor. The next title from games industry legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi – the man behind Sega Rally, Rez, Space Channel 5,.. Continue Reading »
News: Every Kinect Should Come With a Robot Like This One
Control a mech with your body at last
We recently brought you footage of how Kinect can turn you into a Japanese superhero, but what good is a superhero without a robot to battle? Thank goodness, then, that you can now control a mech using Kinect and a PC. The video below shows the robot responding to human inputs including balance tests, arm gestures and more. If this makes you want to build a.. 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: Kinect Destroys Sales Predictions to Rack Up 8 Million Sold
Back-patting all around
Microsoft's early prediction that it would sell 5 million Kinect sensors now looks almost reserved, as the company announced at CES it's shifted 8 million of the things to retailers in two months. The news came alongside the revelation of Avatar Kinect, a new virtual chatroom for Xbox Live Gold members that launches in Spring, as well as the announcement of Hulu Plus and.. Continue Reading »
News: It's Really Possible to Be a Japanese Superhero with Kinect
Enterprising hacks strike again
While Western gamers might want to engage in a little Kinect Star Wars action, Japanese coder Tomoto Washio has a very different dream: he wants to become classic Japanese superhero Ultra Seven, so he's harnessed the power of Kinect to make it happen. Cleverly Washio has negated the need to buy or make a superhero costume by getting Kinect to overlay the suit and.. 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: 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 »
News: Kinect Head-Tracking Could do 3D Gaming Without 3DTVs
Get your head in the game
Microsoft has repeatedly stated it's really not that interested in bringing 3D gaming to Xbox 360, despite competitor Sony's biggest titles all featuring stereoscopic 3D support. A new Kinect hack shows the sensor's ability to track heads can create an impressive 3D effect without the need for a costly 3D camera. Gamers with particularly wide-ranging tastes may recall.. Continue Reading »
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