05/28/2012, Scientists at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing a docking system that is based on Xbox Kinect technology. The twin-satellite mission, called STRaND-2, is a follow-up mission of the STRaND (Surrey Training, Research and [...]
05/25/2012, If you thought that the gestures and flicks of the wand in the Harry Potter movie and story books would be a great idea if it came onto consoles like the Xbox Kinect, Wii or PlayStation Move, you’re in luck [...]
05/24/2012, If you have a penchant for war games, then you might want to check out the playable demo of Steel Battalion Heavy Armor over at Xbox LIVE. Using the abilities that come with Kinect, gaming in the war zone has [...]
05/21/2012, Software giant Microsoft has just rolled out the Kinect for Windows 1.5 update to the Kinect for Windows platform, where it will be accompanied by a totally new set of tools, in addition to upgrades that is hoped to kick [...]
05/21/2012, So you think that the touchscreen display is the next best thing since sliced bread? Well, I have news for you – Leap Motion might just want to change the way we use computers, where their new motion control peripheral [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]