Kinect

The company hopes to excite consumers with a range of Windows-powered tablet devices and its untested Kinect motion gaming platform.

Although Lee has become something of a hero since publicizing his involvement with the Open Kinect contest, he is reticent.

Indeed, Microsoft's reaction to the entire Open Kinect kerfuffle seems to be: Nothing to see here.

Certain motions can be translated into computer commands or, in the case of Kinect, used to control an on-screen avatar.

Yet personal computers that can see you, hear you and respond would be a breakthrough, bringing artificial intelligence into the mainstream.

The service, the next-generation mashup of IPTV and Xbox Live expected to be available later this fall, integrates the Kinect sensor.

If the Kinect sensor light is still red, make sure your console's software is up to date.

And, if you're one of the millions of people who already own an Xbox and a Kinect, why buy anything else?

One golden opportunity Microsoft has is to expand the reach of its brilliant Kinect technology for games to other forms of computing.

This holiday season, the war against couch potatoes wages on with Microsoft's Xbox Kinect, the latest in motion-sensing video-game consoles.

Kinect can also be used to video chat with anyone who's using Windows Live Messenger and a webcam.

The company has used game-playing software, Xbox 360 console and Kinect motion-sensor technology to create the invention.

If you walk away in the middle of a game, Kinect will sense that you aren't there and will pause the game.

And Microsoft is already preparing its first major Kinect software upgrade, which will capture facial expressions as well as body movements.

This is an even bigger gimmick than Microsoft Kinect and I don't see many technology buyers falling for it.

However, it is likely to result in a much wider variety of games for players to enjoy. Kinect offer gamers rich new possibilities.

Instead of releasing a new Xbox, Microsoft has released Kinect to go after casual gamers as well.

The way Kinect can tell what's your hand, what's your hip and what you're shouting over a game at full volume?

Your Microsoft Kinect can recognize human motion and gestures well enough that you don't need a video game controller anymore.

The Kinect, with its built-in color and depth cameras, promised to make that process much easier and more sophisticated.

Researchers, visual artists, and pornographers have all begun cobbling together home-brewed Kinect projects and posting the results online.

On the day the Kinect was released, Machulis rushed to GameStop, eager to be the first to post open drivers for the new machine.

Kinect uses an infrared light and a camera to create a 3-D image of your play area.

This enables the creation of a depth map, similar to the depth data provided by the Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor.

But Microsoft, maker of Kinect and Xbox, immediately shot down any speculation that the game will pass the certification process.

Kinect uses cameras and microphones to track movement and voice commands as a controller.

Whoever deserves the credit, the relationship between Microsoft and the Kinect hackers has blossomed into an unlikely love affair.

It functions in a similar way to Kinect, the motion sensor gadget for the Xbox, in that the camera senses depth and movement.

The new design also has a new port designed for the soon to be released kinect.

The Kinect game controller, which users operate by using their entire body, helped lift sales in Microsoft's entertainment division.

The company was offering a $1, 000 bounty to whoever posted the first open source Kinect drivers to GitHub.

There are two significant points to be made up front about the MIT group's Kinect-based holographic TV project.

A couple of students at the University of Bundeswehr Munich attached a Kinect to a robotic car and sent it through an obstacle course.

Two students at Germany's University of Konstanz bolted a Kinect to a helmet, creating a bare-bones navigational system for the blind.

But you need some kind of controller to play a game, unless Apple is working on its own version of Kinect, which I doubt.

Earlier this month, it unleashed Kinect, a controller-free motion-gaming device for the Xbox 360 console.

Many Kinect games capture videos of you as you play games and then play them back for you at the end.

Others are combining the Kinect's camera with advanced optics to create an LCD screen that can beam different images to different viewers.

Kinect, its add-on device to the Xbox gaming console, suggests one promising path.

Kinect is launching November 4th in the U. S and worldwide in time for the holidays. We'll update when we hear the price.

Already had a knelt track field comp with the lil men this morning, destroyed them!

Late last year, the company revamped the Xbox's interface, adding a wonderful voice-search feature through the Kinect motion-gaming add-on.

Kinect also has sensitive microphones.

When I threw a discus far enough in Kinect Sports to prompt the game's commentator to shout, 'Is that discus a part of the space program? '

Thanks to Microsoft's Kinect, millions are casting aside their controllers and using their bodies to play games.

Several analysts expect Microsoft to initially sell some 3 million Kinect units, despite what is considered a steep price.

Mark Bolas says this system uses a 3-dimensional camera from Microsoft's "Kinect" system.

In certain games, two people can play simultaneously standing in front of Kinect.

The prototype uses sensing cameras such as Microsoft's Kinect to track users, allowing them to swipe in mid air to move through menus.

This error means the Kinect sensor is very cold and needs to warm up.

There are currently 17 games that work with Kinect, and each costs $50.

In the fall of last year, what seemed interesting to Machulis was the forthcoming Kinect.

Did he have any reaction to the Open Kinect contest?

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