Microsoft today launched the Nat Geo TV game in India that promises a “2-way TV experience.” The game includes eight 30-minute episodes of Casey Anderson’s “America the Wild” and enables children to play the role of various animals from the show. The game takes advantage of the Kinect hardware by scanning the living room […]
Microsoft launches White Xbox 360 Kinect Sports Value Bundle in India
Microsoft has launched a new Kinect sports value bundle for the Indian market. The new Xbox 360 bundle comes with a white 4GB Xbox console, Kinect sensor and two games – Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports and three months subscription of Xbox Live Gold. Its priced at Rs. 24,990. Kinect for the uninitiated, makes […]
Indian Engineers integrate Kinect to create a Haptic Belt for Visually Impaired
Kinect-powered hacks are not new but this Kinect hack developed by a team of Indian engineers is pretty unique and helpful to the visually impaired. Dubbed as viSparsh, it’s a haptic belt that detects obstacles and vibrates so as to signify oncoming obstacles to the visually impaired. Basically, the Kinect sensor attached to the […]
Microsoft releases Kinect for Windows SDK
As promised, Microsoft has released the Kinect for Windows SDK, which is a free beta release for researchers and enthusiasts. The SDK will allow developers to take advantage of the Kinect technology to create immersive applications for the PC. The Kinect for Windows SDK is compatible with Windows 7 that includes drivers as well […]
Microsoft Kinect sales surpass 10m units, enters Guinness World Records
Kinect’s way of making ‘user as the controller’ has worked for Microsoft. The Redmond giant has confirmed that its revolution gaming sensor has sold more than 10m units worldwide also driving Kinect-standalone games to more than 10m. Another interesting thing about this milestone is that it has bagged the award for becoming fastest selling […]
Kinect for Xbox 360 sales pass 1 million mark in just 10 days
Here’s a fact that recently released Kinect is doing better than Sony’s PlayStation Move. Microsoft has announced that Kinect for Xbox 360 has sold more than 1 million units worldwide in just 10 days. With the holiday season arriving soon, Microsoft has also upped its sales forecast for this year from 3 million to […]
Microsoft Kinect apparently hacked
Microsoft’s Kinect is barely out in the market for a week and we’re seeing reports about Microsoft’s Xbox 360 controller getting hacked. Adafruit had offered a $2000 bounty to develop an open source Kinect driver and looks like someone has already achieved it. However, the hackers NUI Group that managed to hack it are […]
Microsoft Kinect gets dissected
Most new gadgets are subjected to a teardown and Microsoft’s new Kinect for Xbox 360 is no exception. Folks over at iFixit did the honors and have found some interesting things in this compact game controller. Few noteworthy things found in the teardown are that the Kinect sports two cameras and one IR projector […]
Microsoft announces Kinect Pricing and all-in-one Kinect Console bundle
E-tailers have been flaunting Kinect’s pricing for quite some time and now Microsoft has officially confirmed the price of the motion-sensing controller. The Kinect for Xbox 360 will go for $150 that will include the Kinect sensor along with a Kinect Adventures game. Kinect will be available from Nov 4 and will work with […]
Microsoft renames Project Natal to Kinect
What the world knew as Microsoft’s Project Natal will now be known as Kinect. At the E3 gaming expo, Microsoft unveiled the new name, which they reckon is more marketable than the former name. Other than that, we’re still looking at the same peripheral in a more polished design that has a RGB camera, […]