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Microsoft adds Kinect support for Netflix
- The Netflix app on the Xbox 360 has been updated with Kinect support. The next time you start up Netflix, you'll be prompted to accept the update (43MB download).
Kinect SDK sign up available, public beta coming this spring
- At its MIX11 conference, Microsoft Research announced that the Kinect for Windows SDK beta is coming this spring. Developers can sign up to be notified of the release at research.microsoft.com/kinectsdk.
Researchers convert Google's Gmail Motion joke into reality with Microsoft Kinect
- On April 1, Google introduced a new Motion feature to its Gmail service. Gmail Motion is supposed to let you access and control your Gmail account using gestures, but the demonstration video made it quite clear that it was an…
Kinect hacked to work on the PlayStation 3
- Hacker Shantanu Goel has got his Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect accessory to work with the Sony PlayStation 3. He achieved the feat by connecting the Kinect to his laptop, which is running PrimeSense's Kinect drivers (as well as the OpenNI…
Microsoft sells 10 million Kinects: fastest-selling consumer electronic device
- Microsoft has announced that it has sold 10 million units of its Kinect motion controller. At the same time, Guinness World Records has officially named Kinect for Xbox 360 the "fastest-selling consumer electronics device." Microsoft sold an average of 133,333…
Microsoft announces plans for Kinect SDK
- When the Kinect first launched back in November it took the hacking community mere hours to develop unofficial PC drivers and start toying with numerous alternative uses for the device, showing off stuff like Minority Report-style interfaces and holographic video…
Microsoft shows off WP7 integration with Xbox Kinect
- At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft not only unveiled what was coming for Windows Phone 7 this year, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer decided it was time to lift the curtain on a Technology Preview featuring WP7 and…
Rumor: Microsoft preparing Kinect SDK, drivers for Windows
- Microsoft will announce official Kinect support for PC in the coming months, and will allow third-party developers to create titles that utilize the sensor when plugged into a PC. Microsoft is currently preparing an official Kinect SDK and driver support…
Kinect does real-time 3D holographic video chat
- Oliver Kreylos, one of the many Kinect hackers, first managed to connect two Kinects together and calibrate them in a way to combine their two data streams into one continual video of a particular object. Now he is pushing the…
Microsoft CEO: Kinect to support PCs when the time is right
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has promised that the company will support Kinect for PCs sometime in the future. This is news that should make Bill Gates a very happy man. The motion controller is currently only officially supported for the…
Microsoft sells 8 million Kinect units in 60 days
- Microsoft has announced that it has sold 8 million units of its Kinect motion controller in the last 60 days. The company also took the opportunity to declare it has sold 50 million Xbox 360s to date and that the…
Asus, PrimeSense intro Kinect-like controller for PC
- Asus and PrimeSense, the Israeli firm behind the 3D sensing solution in Microsoft's Kinect, have partnered up to develop a motion controller for PC. The Asus-branded "Xtion" looks remarkably similar to the Xbox 360 add-on, and although it utilizes the…
KinEmote brings Kinect to Boxee and XBMC on Windows
- Here is a Kinect hack that not only has a wow factor but can actually be useful. KinEmote is a free public beta that lets Windows users navigate Boxee and XBMC menus using nothing but hand gestures.
Rumor: Kinect to support PC games
- Microsoft is officially going to support the Kinect motion controller on the PC, at least that's what the rumor mill is saying. The information comes from Korean developer GamePrix, which says its upcoming PC-only MMORPG, Divine Souls, will support gaming…
Rumor: Microsoft to quadruple Kinect accuracy via update
- Microsoft is working to quadruple the accuracy of the Kinect motion control system. The improvements will come in a forthcoming dashboard update, according to Eurogamer.
Kinect sex game coming to the PC
- It was only a matter of time. A new sex game for the Kinect motion controller has been demonstrated on YouTube by a company named ThriXXX, maker of 3D SexVilla 2. Less than two months after release, the controller-free experience…
Kinect does Minority Report interface, Air Guitar prototype
- Many Kinect motion controller hacks have teased a Minority Report interface, but all of them have only shown that it could be possible with a bit more work. Until now: not only is it possible, but it's been done. The…
Quadrotor uses Kinect as an obstacle avoidance system
- The number of hacks you can do with the Kinect motion controller keeps growing and the beauty of it all is that they are all unique in their own ways. Researchers from Project STARMAC and the Hybrid Systems Labs over…
Microsoft: Kinect shortage is not a strategy
- Ever since the Kinect motion controller launched, there have been rumors that the reason it is selling out in stores is because Microsoft made it so. Supply has been clearly lower than demand. Many have speculated that Microsoft managed the…
Kinect hack makes the user invisible
- When you were a kid, did you ever wish you could turn invisible, if only for a day? Scientists are already working on making an invisible cloak, according to the BBC News, but maybe you won't have to wait for…
Kinect sells 2.5 million units in 25 days, twice as fast as the iPad
- Microsoft has announced that it has sold 2.5 million units of its Kinect motion controller in the last 25 days. The Xbox 360 accessory is now available at more than 60,000 retailers in 38 countries.
Kinect used to control the original Super Mario Bros.
- In order to celebrate 25 years of Mario, a gamer who calls himself Yankeyan posted a video titled "Kinect as a Nintendo controller on the PC." In it, he shows himself playing the original Super Mario Bros. game using Microsoft's…
Weekend tech reading: Why Sony turned down Kinect
- Sony: Why we turned down Kinect Is PlayStation Move merely an evolution of the Wii? Is it a poor substitute for the controller-free Kinect? Or is it the beginning of the future of motion controllers? For Anton Mikhailov, a software…
Chrome extension and Kinect control the browser with gestures
- A group of students at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, devoted to move UI design past the typical keyboard-and-mouse interface, has turned the Kinect motion controller into a tool for Web browsing. They wrote an extension for Google…
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