Tag: kinect

We Have Finally Reached the Real Minority Report with Kinect

It didn’t take long for programmers to get from making the Kinect open sourced to creating a real life version of Minority Report. In the video below, you’ll see that another programmer from MIT has made his Kinect learn where both palms are as well as track each of his ten fingers.  This is a

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Science and Tech
Nelson Abalos

MIT Group develops Web Browsing with Kinect

You have to hand it to those kids over at the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT for creating some of the coolest inventions to date. On 25 November, Fluid released a new video, which can be seen past the break.  In this video, the group demonstrates using a web browser with a Microsoft Kinect unit.

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EA Sports Active 20 Arrives for Wii PS3 Kinect
Gaming
Josh

Motion-Sensitive Controllers: Leveling Up to the MMO?

Nintendo was the first to introduce the concept of motion-sensing controllers to the gaming world and as of late it has taken off. Motion-sensing technology has become such a hit, all major platforms have imitated the Wii with their own perspective on it; Microsoft came out with the Kinect and Sony with the Move. With all

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Gaming
Chris Toruno

Reach…for Kinect?

The XBOX 360 Kinect launches in a little under a month and will have 15 games available at its launch date. But what about the biggest game of the year, Halo: Reach?  Even though Reach isn’t compatible with the Kinect, it isn’t stopping zaxy.com to imagine the possibilities of gunning down other Spartans, assassinating them,

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