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Razer Trumpets the Hydra Motion Sensing Controller For PCs

Razer is known for having invented a great many gaming peripherals and it appears that its latest invention doesn't exactly qualify as a keyboard, mouse, steering wheel or anything of the sort.Users with basic knowledge of the gaming and PC industry will know of those things called motion controllers.Nintendo&#...

22 April 2011
06:14 GMT

Linux-Based Kinect “Killer” Developed by SoftKinectic

While the Microsoft Kinect is, without a doubt, the most popular motion controller out there, it's by no means the only one, especially since a company called SoftKinectic has developed a 3D gesture recognition platform based on Linux a lot earlier, but didn't really manage to push it onto the market, due t...

20 December 2010
14:11 GMT

The 'Predator' Camouflage Effect Recreated Live with Hacked Microsoft Kinect

We've said time and time again that the range of uses for the Microsoft Kinect knows no boundaries, apart from those of human imagination, and it really looks like those boundaries are being pushed further and further on a daily basis, with crazier and crazier implementations being made available on quite a regu...

3 December 2010
13:51 GMT

Panasonic Develops Kinect 'Killer', the D-IMager

It seems that the buzz created around Microsoft's Kinect motion controller is major enough in order to prompt other companies to try to come up with a few such solutions of their own, and one of the first to do so is Panasonic, who's just presented to the world its new 3D image depth sensor, called “D...

30 November 2010
03:24 GMT

Super Mario Bros Gets Full Body Control via Hacked Microsoft Kinect

The Kinect motion controller from Microsoft was originally developed in order to bring Xbox 360 into a whole new world of gaming, so, from time to time, it's actually quite nice to see it being used for controlling some of the world's best-known titles, albeit not running on Microsoft's console. So, a...

26 November 2010
09:33 GMT

Hacked Microsoft Kinect Turned into a 3D Holographic Camera

After Microsoft's Kinect motion controller was hacked last week, the drivers required for connecting the device to a computer running Linux, Windows or Mac OS X being already freely available online, we were sort of expecting all sorts of interesting applications for this very promising (hardware-wise) prod...

15 November 2010
01:23 GMT

Hacked Microsoft Kinect Turns Into Multi-touch Controller

As we were expecting, once the fact that Microsoft's Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 was relatively easily hackable (for experienced “security researchers” that is) has become official, we've seen plenty of people coming up with all sorts of software solutions that allow users to hook this th...

12 November 2010
00:26 GMT

Motion Controllers Would Have Been 'Too Exhausting' for Final Fantasy XIII

Motion controllers are the brand-new rave, the gimmick that every game needs to support so that people will see it as the title that's coming from tomorrow, which has that glossy shine of the new. However, some developers tend to be either a bit skeptic about the new input method or simply not impressed by it, b...

17 February 2010
03:21 GMT

CES 2010 Details Project Natal, Accurate Enough for Gamers

After getting a official word from the management, Project Natal's launch has been announced as coming before Christmas, and with this, more details have started flowing. Most of them come from the CES 2010, and some are more interesting than others. New Scientist has been awarded the honor of an actual demonstr...

8 January 2010
08:38 GMT

The PC Gets Third-Party Motion Controllers

When Nintendo released its Wii to the hungry gaming masses, it managed to prove that, without a doubt, people loved the idea of motion controllers. So, naturally, other companies soon started investing money into this kind of research. The big competitors on the console market for Nintendo are Sony and Microsoft, and...

8 January 2010
06:39 GMT

Sony's Wand Is Actually Sony's Gem

After Nintendo managed to build an entire console on the motion-sensing controller concept, it didn't take long before the competition wanted to cramp its style and get in on the market. Both Microsoft and Sony got to work on their own motion controllers, and, while Microsoft seems to have gotten pretty far alon...

10 December 2009
06:16 GMT

Ubisoft Quebec Plans Huge Releases

Ubisoft may have two studios in Quebec, but Ubisoft Montreal is far better known than the other one. Still, the second studio won't let the big shadow cast by Ubisoft M. cloud their growth and are planning a brand-new game. The product is presented by the company as a ground-breaking game in need of talented dev...

1 October 2009
06:00 GMT

Project Natal and Its All-Seeing Eye

During all of last week's Tokyo Game Show presentations, Microsoft's new motion controller Project Natal had the most outside representatives speak on its behalf. The show was put in motion by Microsoft Game Studios Kudo Tsunoda, which tried to give the public a better understanding of the new technology. F...

29 September 2009
08:01 GMT

A New Wii Could Come by 2011

During an August statement Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated quite clearly that the company was not ready to release a second version of its most popular product, the Wii console. He said that it wouldn't "happen any time in the near future" so the competition is making a move to undermine Nintendo's s...

22 September 2009
07:31 GMT


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