All the stories tagged with: kinect
Kinect technology used to build nanosatellites
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 [...]
Harry Potter for Kinect officially announced
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 [...]
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor playable demo on Xbox LIVE
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 [...]
Kinect for Windows 1.5 released by Microsoft
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 [...]
Leap Motion brings gesture interaction with computers
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 [...]
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, [...]
