kinect

Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal, is a USB-connected peripheral, like a web camera but with extra goodies, for use on Microsoft's XBox 360.

XBox Kinect uses infra-red technology to track game players in 3D space. It comes equipped with a microphone, and also has the ability to record players in full RGB color. It has face recognition capabilities to automatically sign players in to the system.


Kinect comes with chat software called videokinect to allow users to have video chat with friends and family over Xbox Live or Windows Live Messenger.


Kinect is dubbed as a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience."

You'll find bloggers talking about Kinect at sites like 123 Kinect and The Kinect Blog.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “kinect”

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “kinect”

 

• Harry Potter for Kinect will exclusively conjure Kinect owners in 2012 (video)

  
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXizEuYzLRI After the deception – in terms of Kinect support – that was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1, and the removal of [...]
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• Get a Limited Edition Star Wars Kinect Xbox 360 bundle

  
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  Pocket-lint offering for their readers the chance to win a fantastic limited-edition Star Wars Kinect Xbox 360 bundle. Become a true Jedi with the new Xbox 360 Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars console, featuring a custom design and sounds from R2-D2, a C-3PO inspired wireless controller, an all-white Kinect sensor, a ...
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• Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Now Available For Download

  
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  Steel Battalion first hit the Xbox shores in 2004, with an epic mix of mechs and general combat. Now it has been totally remastered in the form of Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, which brings Kinect functionality to the battlefield. The new Kinect functionality allows you to finally immerse yourself into the game, and ...
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• TV Kinect Sensor Mounting Clip Holder for Xbox 360 only $5.99 Shipped Free!

  
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  The Kinect Sensor Mounting Clip for the Xbox 360 is the optimized solution for mounting the Kinect Sensor above your flat panel HDTV. I have one of these on my Vizio 42” 3D TV and works great and was extremely easy to mount! (Gunn Approved) TV Sensor Mounting Clip Holder for Xbox 360
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• Crank, twist and pull down a Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor demo on Xbox Live

  
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  Most of us will never know what its like to pilot a gigantic, bipedal mech in real life - that technology is years off - but the next best thing can be experienced if youve got an Xbox Live Gold subscription and a Kinect sensor. A demo for Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is available for download on Xbox Live ...
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• Hey Look, Its a New Trailer For That New Panzer Dragoon Game [Video]

  
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• NBA Baller Beats to Come With a Real Spalding Basketball, In-Game Trading Cards

  
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  Last month, when Majesco announced its Kinect motion control fusion of basketball dribbling skills and rhythm gameplay using a real basketball as a peripheral, I joked about how the game, NBA Baller Beats , should come bundled with a nerf ball on a string for safety reasons. Instead, Majesco has partnered with ...
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• The Leap: Gesture control like Kinect, but cheaper and much higher resolution

  
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  The Leap is available to pre-order now for $70It seems Minority Report-style computer interfaces might arrive a whole lot sooner than we expected: A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of “interaction space,” which detects your hand gestures down to an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters — ...
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• Future DJing Technology? Leap Motion Control

  
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  From the "this would be awesome to DJ with" department, we couldnt help but feature this soon-to-launch technology that allows for three dimensional control over your computer using just your hands. Its called the Leap - and its a iPod-size... Read more
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• Here Now, A Guy Playing a 4-Story Pipe Organ With Kinect [Video]

  
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  Ive seen plenty of people playing a theremin, but never someone playing an organ with Microsofts Kinect motion-controller Yet thats just what Chris Vik does, reprogramming a Kinect to control a 4-stroy pipe organ. More »
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• Robots who tidy up your room learning to handle new objects

  
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  Researchers in Cornell’s Personal Robotics Lab have developed a new algorithm which enables a robot to rely on its artificial intelligence to look at a group of objects instead recognizing single objects placed in front of its sensors. The algorithm enables the robot to  survey its surroundings, identify all the ...
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• Video: Controlling pipe organ with the Kinect

  
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  Click on the picture above to play the video Dmitry Burov used Kinect to play the four stories Melbourne Town Hall Organ. Burov software called  “Kinectar” ,  allows him to use Kinect to control MIDI devices as playing notes through simple gestures . Burov and vocalist Elise Richards composed Carpe Zythum ...
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• Next Skyrim update adds mounted combat

  
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  Bethesda is making good on all of the features seen in the Skyrim sizzle video, like the Kinect stuff added earlier this month and those snazzy new kill cams. The next addition to the game will be mounted combat, the Bethesda blog has revealed. Finall...
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• Leap Motion: Kinnect style 3D Gesture based Hands free PC Control

  
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  LeapMotion has just announced by Leap, the Gesture based motion sensor controller, with which you can control you PC hands free, like Kinect for Windows. Leap Motion PC Controller may not be the... Please visit www.iTechWhiz.com for more details and a lot more.
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• Crimson Dragon & Babel Rising for Kinect release at same date

  
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  Highly anticipated Kinect game Crimson Dragon, and outsider Babel Rising happen to have the same release date: both games will land on Xbox Live at the [...]
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• Steel Battalion Hybrid Kinect demo on Xbox Live (video)

  
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeJ3UDdBwrc Today sees the playable demo for Steel Battalion Heavy Armor hit Xbox LIVE! The touted experience is a replication of  ’taking control of a [...]
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• Joy Ride Turbo Review – Giving Control Back to the Player

  
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  2010 saw the release of Microsoft’s Kinect, and one of the games that launched with it was Kinect Joy Ride, a controller-free kart racing game. It was not particularly well received , mostly due to imprecise motion controls and a general pervasive blandness. It didn’t help matters that it was a $40 retail game ...
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• This dude can control a pipe organ using Kinect

  
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  Last year Dmitry Burov modded a Kinect to play the Melbourne Town Hall Organ, and he did it with way more style than any of those sweet Dance Central moves weve attempted to throw down in front of our own little camera boxes. The Melbourne Town Hall Organ is four stories tall, but Burov used his own software, ...
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• ‘Steel Battalion Heavy Armor’ for Kinect lets you control a robot tank

  
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  I love the Kinect, but not so much the majority of games available for the platform. Sure Dance Central 1 & 2 are both excellent, but there has to be more than just dancing if it’s ever to... [[ This is an article summary only. Click the link to check out the full story on Guyism. ]]
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• Samsung’s saucy Smart TV ad: “Look, don’t touch”

  
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  Samsung has a recent history of mocking others in its ads — some poked fun at iPhone users — but now Samsung is using humor to tout its gesture controlled line of Smart TV sets. Thanks to an integrated web cam atop the display, consumers can control video playback, volume and other functions without touching the ...
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