All the stories tagged with kinect
Fruit Ninja for Kinect now available on Xbox Live
08/09/2011, Fans of Half-brick studio’s addictive fruit-slashing game, Fruit Ninja, will be glad to know that the game is finally available for download on their Xbox 360 consoles. Starting this week, Kinect owners will be able to use hand motions to [...]
Tecmo Koei Champion Jockey looks ridiculous
08/09/2011, Are you a fan of horse riding, but don’t have enough space in your house to keep or horse, or you don’t have the money to buy one? Well, like almost every hobby, there’s a digital version of it available [...]
Kinect for Windows SDK Beta Updated
08/03/2011, Developers who want to build Kinect applications under Windows can now download the latest Kinect for Windows SDK (Beta) from Microsoft. The update gives developers access to a new set of data that includes raw sensor data, which open the [...]
Xbox Kinect to be used in archaeological survey
08/03/2011, We’ve reported before on how the Xbox Kinect was used in the health care industry and now it looks like thanks to a hacked Kinect, it has managed to find its way to an archaeological survey in Jordan which will [...]
Just Dance 3 Kinect trailer uses no controller
08/02/2011, The day is fast approaching when you no longer need a traditional video game controller to get your game session going, thanks to Nintendo who paved the way with the Wii and its innovative motion sensing controls, and Microsoft did [...]
Avatar Kinect arriving on Xbox LIVE today
07/25/2011, The long-awaited Avatar Kinect that was introduced at CES earlier this year is now available to all Xbox LIVE users starting today. In case you forgot about it or you haven’t been paying much attention, Avatar Kinect is a new [...]
Limited edition droid-themed Xbox 360 unveiled
07/21/2011, What do Motorola and Microsoft have in common? Not much at the moment, but come this fall, both companies will have Droid-themed products up for sale. Droid-themed, you say? To be more specific, we’re talking about the droids from Star [...]
Xbox Kinect finds a use in Sunnybrook Health Services Center
07/14/2011, A while back we had reported that Microsoft saw a future where the Kinect could be used within the healthcare industry, and it looks like that future has arrived. It seems that the doctors at Sunnybrook Health Services Center in [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to get a R2-D2 edition?
07/08/2011, Star Wars fans, are you ready for this? It seems that there have been some whisperings that Microsoft may be prepping a limited edition R2-D2 themed Xbox 360 console for release either towards the end of this year or in [...]
Microsoft warns consumers about the Nyko Zoom Kinect Lens
07/07/2011, Remember the Nyko Zoom Kinect Lens we wrote about last month; the Kinect add-on accessory that allowed users to enjoy the Kinect in a smaller than usual room? Well, it looks like Microsoft isn’t too pleased about the Zoom despite [...]
Kinect mod lets you simulate holding a steering wheel for driving games
07/07/2011, Usually when it comes to driving games, using a steering wheel controller is generally more preferred than using a gamepad, as we’re guessing it feels more “realistic” and offers up better control. If that is true, then how do you [...]
Microsoft’s secretly been updating Kinect’s accuracy
06/29/2011, We knew something felt different at E3 when we bopped around swinging our arms and legs in various Kinect game demos, but we couldn’t quite pinpoint it. Sure enough, Microsoft’s Xbox senior product manager David Dennis has let it be [...]
Fruit Ninja Kinect Will Make Its Way To Xbox Live Arcade Later This Year
06/29/2011, Whenever someone gets an iOS device, it’s sort of like an unspoken rule that one of the games that they have to get, apart from Angry Birds which is a given, would be the popular fruit slashing game Fruit Ninja, [...]
