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Kinect: currently aimed at Xbox, but coming to PC in February, complete with new features. Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing a Windows PC version of its Kinect motion control device in February. The camera and microphone peripheral was launched on Xbox 360 at the close of last year and has so far sold 18 million units.
"Intuitive."
Ever since the Kinect’s surprisingly lucrative success, independent developers around the world have been writing programs to tap into the device and try to unlock its true potential. When you play Minecraft, what’s the first idea you think of when you think “What could make this game better?” is it the fact that you should be able to place each individual block and mine each square of resource with your own arms?
by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 9th 2010 12:14PM A full Minority Report interface is one of the endgame dreams of Kinect hackers. We've seen plenty of brilliant Kinect hacks so far, but this latest one by members of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is the closest thing we've seen to the dream .
At this week's Montreal International Games Summit, Harmonix's Ryan Challinor discussed the difficult prototyping process for Dance Central 's UI, which is fully-functioned and users preferred to any of Microsoft's own first-party Kinect titles. When it comes to developing a Kinect UI, said Challinor, "things that seemed intuitive were impossible or really difficult to pull off," which disheartened the team working on the game.
Kinect is a new video game system that is fully controlled by bodily movements .
Images preview changes to Kinect Dashboard
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