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Kinect robot control hack gives you an aerobics buddy [Video]

, Jan 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

With all the Kinect hacks we're seeing, it probably doesn't matter whether gamers are leaving their motion-control sensors to gather dust or otherwise; there are enough DIY-addicts buying it to make the peripheral a success. Latest is Asura's V-Sido remote app for the G-Robots GR-001 'bot, which can follow your movements for some aerobics-style mimicry. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

My Kinect Is Already Collecting Dust

, Jan 13th 2011 Discuss [40]

Not too long ago, I wrote on these pages that the Nintendo Wii in my house was collecting dust. I explained that Wii games aren’t as appealing to me as they might be to other gamers. I also told you that I wasn’t all that impressed by the Wii Remote itself. Suffice it to say that I’m perfectly content with a traditional controller.

So, when I purchased Microsoft’s Kinect after a few weeks of deciding whether or not it would be a sound purchase, I was a little concerned that the unique motion option would fall flat in the same way.

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Kinect hack motion-controls Flash UIs [Video]

, Jan 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

The awesome Kinect hacks continue, and BLITZ have delivered what could turn out to be one of the more interesting adaptations of Microsoft's motion-gaming peripheral. They've figured out a way to get the Kinect sensor-bar to work with Flash-based interfaces via Node.js, opening the door to Flash, Silverlight and Unity apps being directly controlled by Kinect-recognized motions. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Kinect PC support in near future tips Ballmer

, Jan 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has reiterated the company's plans to add Kinect support to Windows, suggesting that the motion controller will gain some degree of integration with the PC platform "in a formal way in the right time." The news follows Bill Gates' comments last year, when he confirmed that both the Xbox and Windows teams had "latched onto" the motion-tracking camera system. Read The Full Story

Avatar Kinect for Xbox LIVE tipped for Microsoft CES 2011 reveal

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Further details about Microsoft's CES 2011 announcements have leaked, with a new Xbox 360 social communication system called Avatar Kinect expected to make its debut this week. First spotted by Glimpsedog as a leaked snapshot of Microsoft's keynote run-through, according to WinRumors Avatar Kinect uses the motion-gaming peripheral to control gamers' Xbox LIVE avatars as they interact with each other. Read The Full Story

ASUS WAVI Xtion borrows Kinect tech for HTPC motion-control

, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

ASUS has announced a new entertainment peripheral, the ASUS WAVI Xtion, which promises gesture-based control for PCs in the living room. The new boxes uses PrimeSense Immersive Natural Interaction technology, and hook up via UWB to connect your TV to your computer. PrimeSense, lest you've forgotten, are the motion-perception brains behind Microsoft's Kinect for the Xbox 360. Read The Full Story

Kinect UI gets usability breakdown: plenty of weaknesses

, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [3]

With plenty of households now getting to grips with a new Kinect to hook up to their Xbox 360 consoles after the holidays, it's fair to say there are a lot of odd gestures going on in living rooms across the world. Just how odd is something usability expert Jakob Nielsen has been looking at; he reckons that while Kinect is "fun to play" it's also inconsistent, full of awkward dialogs and poorly-communicated warnings, and relies too greatly on gamers memorizing instructions. Read The Full Story

Kinect Sign-Language hack is work-in-progress [Video]

, Dec 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sign language recognition support was one of the surprising potential use-cases for the Kinect beyond simple motion gaming in the run up to the peripheral's release, and a team of researchers at Georgia Tech College of Computing are hard at work making it a reality. They're looking to use Kinect in their ongoing CopyCat project, a video game intended to teach young people American Sign Language (ASL). Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Microsoft firm on Kinect sex game ban

, Dec 20th 2010 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has put the dampeners on the possibility of Kinect sex games, insisting that "adults only" titles that used the motion-tracking peripheral for erotic purposes would neither be certified nor condoned on the Xbox 360 platform. The somewhat puritanical stance follows Austrian developer ThriXXX's demonstration of a 3D adult game making use of the Kinect, which allowed a gamer's hand to be tracked and mapped onto the body of a scantily-clad on-screen avatar. Read The Full Story

Kinect Quadrocopter is your autonomous AR.Drone [Video]

, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Parrot's AR.Drone - which we reviewed over the weekend - is clever, but it still requires a meat pilot; strap on a Kinect sensor bar, meanwhile, and a quadrocopter is capable of going it alone. The autonomous 'copter is the handiwork of the Hybrid Systems lab at the University of California at Berkeley, with the Kinect feeding positioning data to an onboard 1.6GHz Atom Ubuntu computer. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 30 2010

, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

You sassafrass you, NOOKcolor! Last night we spoke about how NOOKcolor had been rooted and presented to you the final chapter in our "A Week With" reviews of that device, but what's this?! I snuck another one in on ya! A Week with NOOKcolor: The Missing Link – Viewing Manually Loaded Books and What a Root Means for the Future. Then there's news about how NOOKcolor saved B&N's butt financially this year, and the iPad responds with a magazine - it's got TRON on it! Maybe not a direct response, and I know it's released by Richard Branson, but, you know, but I don't think iPad is worried about the B&N competition. Then we've got some Farmville news and some NASA news about what might be aliens - this expressing the range of information we present here at the R3 Media Network. ALL THIS AND MORE on the SlashGear Morning Wrap-up! Read The Full Story

Microsoft Kinect shredded at iFixit

, Nov 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Those geeks over at iFixit took their shiny new Kinect for the Xbox 360 and started tearing the thing apart as soon as it hit the office. It's a dirty job, but someone has to gut all the cool new gadgets and iFixit does it with mucho gusto. Read The Full Story
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