All the stories tagged with: kinect
The Avengers: Battle for Earth arriving on Xbox 360 and Wii U this fall
05/11/2012, Remember the other day we reported that a domain for The Avengers: Battle for Earth had been registered? Evidence pointed at Ubisoft as being the one behind the game and now it looks like it has been made official. If [...]
MLB.TV Premium launches in 18 more international markets
05/08/2012, Are you a huge fan of baseball? Well, good news for you – it seems that MLB.TV Premium has just rolled out in 18 other new international markets on Xbox LIVE, so that baseball fans who do not live in [...]
Microsoft Turns Gestures into Commands Using Audio Waves
05/08/2012, It seems that the success of Microsoft’s Kinect has driven the company to branch out further into the gesture-related sciences given that one of its latest projects offers gesture control with just a computer’s speakers, a microphone and some inaudible [...]
Kinect Star Wars demo is now available
05/07/2012, Ever wondered just how the Kinect Star Wars would look like? Well, in the true spirit and tradition of a “try before you buy” model, the Kinect Star Wars demo is now available as a free download, although you would [...]
Microsoft unveils Union Jack themed Xbox 360 bundle
05/01/2012, Citizens of the UK, if you’re feeling particularly patriotic over the upcoming Olympic games which will be held in London, or the Queen’s diamond jubilee, or if you simply like the art in general, you’ll be interested to learn that [...]
Kinect and PlayStation Eye turns coffee table into a 3D augmented reality display
05/01/2012, We’ve all seen the television shows and movies where they use tables that have touchscreen functionality. Such technology does exist in the form of the Microsoft Surface and while that’s admittedly pretty cool, Bastian Broecker has managed to come up [...]
Kinect lets you fly through London via Pigeon Simulator
04/30/2012, The Kinect from Microsoft has had its fair share of hacks in the past, and this time around, we have what has been dubbed as the Pigeon Simulator. A team of researchers from the University College London have devised a [...]
Wiipop brings Kinect camera and Wiimotes together
04/18/2012, The video game family can be said to be a big, happy one – especially when you have enterprising minds who want to cobble what was deemed anathema in the past to a totally new hybrid experience. Case in point, [...]
Kinect integration update for Skyrim coming soon
04/12/2012, Heads up Skyrim players, it looks like the game will be receiving an update that will allow players to interact with the game via Kinect commands. If that sounds familiar, it’s because this was a feature demonstrated during Bethesda’s “Game [...]
Microsoft Plans to bring Kinect to Windows Phone 8
04/11/2012, As far-fetched as it sounds, the folks over at VR-Zone claim to have had a chat with some Microsoft employees who mentioned the next step in Kinect-related technology. Apparently Microsoft has been working on fitting the Kinect Natural User Interface [...]
Future versions of the Kinect will be able to detect tone of voice and body stance
04/10/2012, We had reported before that some people had come up with a user interface that allows the Kinect to detect movement of the tongue, but what else could the future of the Kinect hold? Well in an interview conducted by [...]
Padzilla Too: The iPad meets the Kinect
04/10/2012, While Fruit Ninja for the Xbox Kinect already exists, there is a certain novelty about being able to play it on a super huge display, such as the Padzilla Too. If the name sounds familiar, it is because earlier last [...]
User interface detects tongue movement with Kinect
04/03/2012, I must say, the Kinect system that was introduced to the world for use with the Xbox 360 console has certainly spawned far more hacks compared to the PS Move or the Nintendo Wiimote. Today, we shall look at yet [...]
