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Microsoft’s Creative Director for the Kinect, Kudo Tsunoda, talked about the sensor for the Xbox 360 and emphasized that a next-generation experience is completely possible with the current version of the device as developers just need to start using its features in new ways. The Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360... |
21 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The development team working on Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor at Capcom believes that it will be the best game to use the Kinect motion-tracking system for the Xbox 360, mainly because of the way Microsoft has updated the gesture recognition in order to accommodate the needs of the team.
Kenjo Katoka, who is a produc... |
15 May 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long touting the great possibilities that its Kinect sensor could provide, especially when combined with the Kinect for Windows SDK and a great idea. Two recent projects have come to light to demonstrate that things are indeed so. The two projects, a Microsoft MirageTable and the Augmented Realit... |
11 May 2012
09:27 GMT |
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It's one thing to play in a normal sandbox and other to have one that lets you build things on a massive scale without any chance of getting sand and water all over you.
Kids, of course, love to play in sandboxes anyway. Some even prefer being dirty to cleanliness, for some obscure reason. Maybe they feel more... |
7 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has just presented its practical implementation of the well-known Doppler effect. The technology is called SoundWave.Everybody that has seen it in action is comparing it to the company’s Kinect movement detection system. Yet SoundWave is much different from Kinect, because it doesn’t use any opt... |
7 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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If last year Hack in the Box participants were challenged to put their imagination to good use by utilizing LEGO pieces and robots, this year the security conference will host an event in which contesters will have to use Kinect’s tracking features to create a system that can translate movements into words. Th... |
7 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Using commonly available components, a team of experts at Queen's University has recently developed a pod capable of displaying holographic representations of objects or persons that are somewhere else. The system largely consists of a series of 6 Microsoft Kinect sensors, a 3D projection unit, a convex mirror ... |
4 May 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Sources inside Microsoft have suggested that the company's video game division is getting ready to announce and launch a new bundle combining the Xbox 360 home console and the Kinect motion tracking system for the initial price of 99 dollars (75.3 Euro) and a two-year subscription plan that will see customers pa... |
3 May 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that it will unveil later today both the Kinect update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as well as the first details on the first downloadable add-on for the massive RPG.
Skyrim delighted millions of players last year when it came out for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Since then, Bethesda has relea... |
1 May 2012
07:49 GMT |
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Bethesda has unveiled some more details about the upcoming update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the Xbox 360, which will bring support for the Kinect sensor, saying that it will be released next week and will also appear for the game's other language versions.Skyrim impressed millions upon millions of RPG f... |
16 April 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Namco Bandai has announced that it will be launching a Kinect-powered version of Dragon Ball Z for the Xbox 360 during October, allowing fans to experience a whole new take on the familiar universe.
Gamers will be able to learn and then use no less than 100 moves, with motion tracking set to int... |
13 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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As much as this might sound like a belated April Fools’ joke, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the Xbox 360 will get a special update in the near future, which brings support for the Kinect sensor.
Skyrim was Softpedia’s game of the year, impressing us with great gameplay, a complex story and a wide variety of t... |
12 April 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly taking a new step towards putting together its products, through packing a series of Kinect features inside the next release of Windows Phone. Rumor has it that the company has started working on integrating the Kinect NUI (Natural User Interface) in the mobile operating system. Windows Ph... |
11 April 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Gears of War creator and Epic Games’ Creative Director Cliff Bleszinski revealed that the studio had a special Gears of War: Exile title in development at some point in time, but it was canceled before its official announcement. The Gears of War franchise is one of the most popular Xbox 360 exclusive ones in t... |
9 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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After many people expressed their mixed feelings while playing, or at least seeing gameplay footage of its Kinect Star Wars title, Microsoft has made an official statement, saying that the game controlled only through the player’s motions, is designed to appeal to all Star Wars fans, not just core gamers. Lots... |
6 April 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Those who are playing Mass Effect 3 on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft have a chance to use the Kinect motion tracking system to control some aspects of the game, and one leading developer working on the game says the integration happened mostly by accident.
Casey Hudson, who is the leading producer working... |
2 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Quite a few video game companies made their own April Fools announcements yesterday, but a really impressive fan-made video has stolen the proverbial cake, showcasing an Assassin’s Creed game controlled only through the Kinect on the Xbox 360.Games in the Assassin’s Creed series have allowed users to perf... |
2 April 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ and Adidas have recently announced that they have settled a dispute linked to the miCoach range of electronic training devices and that a video game based on them will soon be launched for fans of the apparel company, although no dates or platforms have been mentioned.
Frank Thomas, a repres... |
28 March 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is working on pushing its Kinect for Windows software and hardware to more markets around the world in the coming months.
The company has just announced that its product will arrive in nineteen new countries soon, including Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan in late May.
Countries like Austria, Belgium,... |
28 March 2012
05:58 GMT |
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When it comes to the personalization options that Windows 7 users can benefit from, new themes available from Microsoft are always great options.
Lately, we had the chance to have a look at a variety of new such customization options, including some that brought landscapes from Germany straight to your Windows 7 P... |
27 March 2012
17:11 GMT |
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With a week separating us from the official release of Kinect Star Wars, Microsoft has unveiled the launch trailer for the game, showing off the sheer popularity of the Star Wars franchise as a whole and the special experience delivered by the new game.
Kinect Star Wars has been a long time coming, with Microsoft an... |
27 March 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Tim Schafer, the leader of the development team at Double Fine, has pleaded with video game developers to use comedy more often in their titles both as a way to connect with players and as a means to transmit emotion.
The developer was speaking at the New York University Game Center and he acknowledged that comedy w... |
26 March 2012
16:41 GMT |
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One source inside Microsoft claims that at the moment the gaming-oriented division of the company is working on two new consoles, one of them being a stripped down version of the current Xbox for the casual market and another a true successor device that will be aimed at the hardcore fans.
Writing on the Reddit plat... |
23 March 2012
06:48 GMT |
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“Immersion” is something companies like to drone on when advertising a new monitor or graphics card, or whatever else. Basically, “immersion” has come to mean that sensation of being inside a game or movie while playing/watching it. A certain gamer with some knowledge in electronics and/or g... |
19 March 2012
11:42 GMT |
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Crytek has confirmed that its Ryse project for the Kinect is still in development, despite the fact that no other details have appeared about the game since its reveal at last year’s E3 conference.
Ryse was among the variety of Kinect games for the Xbox 360 that were revealed by Microsoft back in 2011, impress... |
16 March 2012
04:11 GMT |
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KinectJS is a JavaScript library for supporting motion gestures in HTML5. The motion gestures are acquired from a Kinect device via a custom built Adobe Air app. For now KinectJS support is limited to Google Chrome 15+ and Firefox 10+, but as more browsers implement the needed HTML5 features, they'll be able to... |
15 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux recently announced that he was leaving both video game publisher Microsoft and developer Lionhead after the completion of the most recent Fable video game. However, before that he seems determined to make gamers believe in the superiority of the motion-powered Kinect over traditional controllers. ... |
12 March 2012
04:01 GMT |
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A rather embarrassing gameplay video from the upcoming Kinect Star Wars game has appeared on the web, showing off footage from three of the main activities, including the Pod racing, the Jedi duels, and the Dance battles.Kinect Star Wars has been in development for quite some time and, although many people are eagerl... |
10 March 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is opening new doors towards the creation of robotics applications that can fit a wide range of scenarios by releasing the final version of its Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4.
Generally available, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS 4) –which is downloadable from Softpedia as well, vi... |
9 March 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Video game publisher Capcom has confirmed that Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor will be officially launched on June 19 in the United States and June 22 in Europe, exclusively for those who own both a Xbox 360 home gaming console and the Kinect motion tracking system from Microsoft. The publisher has also revealed a trai... |
6 March 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 home console managed to beat both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii when it comes to overall sales in the United States during 2011, and Microsoft has even bigger plans for its gaming platform for this year.
Steve Beinner, the director of marketing for first-party games working at Microso... |
5 March 2012
10:33 GMT |
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The video game retail chain GameStop has announced that it plans to open up 3,600 of its stores in the United States in order to host midnight launches for the BioWare-made action and role-playing game Mass Effect 3.
The events will include competitions, early sale of the game and a special live stream which will fe... |
2 March 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has just unleashed a brand new Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle that’s now on sale, which includes special glossy white editions of the two devices, as well as a white controller and two games in the form of Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures. The Xbox 360 has been selling very well in recent years, with ... |
29 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has officially confirmed that the project known as Draco is actually called Crimson Dragon and that overall development is being handled by Yukio Futatsugi, who is best known for creating the Panzer Dragoon series.
The new game will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 home console and will be... |
28 February 2012
05:43 GMT |
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A number of sources from the video game industry have told Kotaku that the codename for the next Xbox home console project from Microsoft is Durango. It also seems that the company will soon make the codename public and will refer for the platform as such before it settles on an actual name that it will use for the ... |
17 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Kinect for Media Center (priced $6.99/€5) is a new program specially designed to allow you control over Windows Media Center’s interface through hand gestures and voice commands. The set of hand gestures is pretty basic, but covers all movements required to navigate through the menus as well as skip to a ... |
15 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Despite delivering fewer hits during the last few years former employees still believe that the Rare development studio still has the ability to deliver video games that are at least as good as those launched during its Nintendo years.
Ed Fries, a former leader of the Microsoft Game Studios, has told Eurogamer as pa... |
9 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has finally unveiled a new release date for the eagerly awaited Kinect Star Wars game, as well as for the Star Wars-themed Xbox 360 bundle, which will both arrive at the beginning of April all around the world.
The Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360 has sold tens of millions of units since its release more tha... |
9 February 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Microsoft might not be ready to talk about its next home console, but at least one analyst believes that the company is very well positioned to dominate the coming hardware generation as long as it plays its cards right. Scott Steinberg, a marketing expert and an analyst watching the video game industry, tells Indus... |
2 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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The Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console has been a success for Microsoft when it comes to sales, but one leading video games developer believes that companies are still struggling with creating tailor-made experiences for it.
Tim Schafer, who is the leader of development at Double Fine, told ... |
1 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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The final version of Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 is now available for download, offering support for applications built using C++, C#, Visual Basic, and Visual Studio 2010.
Some of the main changes that the new tool iteration packs include better skeletal tracking, along with enhanced speech recog... |
1 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Today, true to a promise made on January 9th, Microsoft made available for download the final flavor of its Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit. Officially announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the development tools arrive in addition to commercially available hardware. Kinect for W... |
1 February 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Looks like all those reports about Windows 8 laptops featuring Kinect are true, though our dreams of having technology like in spy movies may not become reality as quickly as people hope.
People may or may not remember the recent reports about a pair of ASUS laptops on which Microsoft's Kinect sensor was insta... |
31 January 2012
10:38 GMT |
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After registering an impressive success with Kinect on Xbox, and the over 18 million sold units are proof of that, Microsoft is gearing up for making a splash with Kinect for Windows as well.
Back in January, the company announced plans to release Kinect for Windows SDK as soon as tomorrow, and to have the sensor ... |
31 January 2012
10:03 GMT |
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We already knew that Windows 8 was going to bring a slew of new features to the table, but we hadn't heard of Kinect-supporting laptops until today.
Nevertheless, that is exactly what recent reports say ASUS is working on.
To be a bit more specific, ASUS supposedly has two prototype netbooks with Windows 8 and... |
27 January 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Kinect has already been announced for Windows PCs, yet it appears that some vendors out there might be set to take it to a brand new level.
Rumor has it that ASUS is considering the release of a Window 8-powered laptop that would also include the Kinect sensor inside.
In fact, The Daily claims that they have alr... |
27 January 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a first-person shooter that will use the Kinect motion tracking tech from Microsoft for some game features, although it will not be introducing it to the core gameplay mechanics.
And Adrian Lacey, who is the intellectual property director working on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, told Sp... |
27 January 2012
07:07 GMT |
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Star Wars fans and Kinect owners will finally be able to enjoy the long awaited Kinect Star Wars game in April, at least according to a listing mentioned by large UK retailer Argos in one of its newest catalogs.Kinect Star Wars has been in development for quite some time, with Microsoft trying to really deliver a qua... |
25 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to expand the use of its Kinect sensor by including it inside a set-top box capable of delivering multimedia content streaming capabilities.
Supposedly called Kinect HD, the set-top box would be included in Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE TV plans and might emerge on shelves in 2012.... |
13 January 2012
09:20 GMT |
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The CES 2012 show has not been particularly video game oriented, with most companies concerned more with the next in television technology and smartphone development, but Microsoft included the Xbox 360 in its presentation.
Steve Ballmer, who is the current chief executive officer of Microsoft, and Ryan Seacrest, wh... |
11 January 2012
02:50 GMT |
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