Topic: Project Natal

Microsoft Uses Cirque to "Kinect" With Gamers, and Everyone Else

Microsoft unveiled the final name of their Project Natal motion control at a press event last night—Kinect. Actually, they leaked it to USA Today around the time we press were on line waiting for the event (with cool Cirque du ...READ»

Microsoft's Motion-Controlling Project Natal Is Now Named Microsoft Kinect

This just in from the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles: Microsoft's Wii-without-the-controller Project Natal is now named Kinect. What new announcements came along with the name change?READ»

The Genius Behind Minority Report's Interfaces Resurfaces, With Mind-blowing New Tech

You have to watch this video, to appreciate how fast gestural interfaces are developing.READ»

Life in 2020: Your Dating History on Display and Other Faintly Disturbing Predictions

Frog Design forecasts our wired future--beautiful or HAL-ish?READ»

Microsoft's Marc Whitten on Xbox 360's Project Natal

Marc Whitten heads Microsoft's effort to revolutionize the home-entertainment experience with Project Natal, which tracks your every move.READ»

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Michel Tombroff Uses Gesture Technology for EA Sports, Panasonic

Michel Tombroff is developing software to analyze images captured by 3-D cameras and working with EA Sports, Texas Instruments, and Panasonic to make avatars move based on users' actions.READ»

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Sony's PlayStation Move Ad Snarks on Microsoft's Project Natal, Ignores Nintendo Wii

Sony's new ad takes place six months in the future, in a world in which PlayStation Move has been released and is a huge success. That may be wishful thinking.READ»

Apple Patent Beams Up Pico Projectors Into All Your Future Apple Gear

Apple patent-watching is sometimes surprising, sometimes bemusing, but a newly-revealed patent for built-in projectors into Apple gizmos should be filed in the awesome category--imagine the future iPhone and iPad designs! Apple ...READ»

"Red Steel 2" Director on Motion Control Gaming, Making a "First-Person Brawler"

This month, Western-meets-Samurai Anime game "Red Steel 2" takes a giant leap forward in translating players' movements into epic on-screen swordfights. Creative director Jason Vandenberghe gives us an inside look at the making of an action game with detailed motion controls and shares his enthusiasm for PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Project Natal.READ»

Sony Announces PlayStation Move, Its Wii-Baiting Motion Controller

Sony gave a brief tech demo of its motion controller at the E3 show last year (and discussed it with us just a few weeks ago), but a lot of the particulars were left unknown. Today, they demonstrated the newly-dubbed PlayStation ...READ»

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The Xbox 360. How long is it through its life-cycle?

Microsoft’s sales performances with the Xbox 360 games console continues to impress. Not only is it still selling well but it generally outsells its main competitor, the Sony PlayStation 3, on a regular basis. Despite this ...READ»

Modern Warfare 2 Expansion and Project Natal Coming to Xbox This Year

The blockbuster video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is about to get bigger. Microsoft announced an an exclusive expansion pack for the Xbox 360 at CES this evening, and also confirmed that the Project ...READ»

Intel's Mind-Reading Chips: Replace Your Mouse With Your Brain

You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your ...READ»

The Most (and Least) Inventive Inventions on Time's '50 Best Inventions' List

If someone decided to do a list of innovative magazine lists, it probably wouldn't include Time magazine's "50 Best Innovations" list. The new one's out, and we've sub-selected some of the good items for you. But a broad swath of the ...READ»

Can Microsoft Grab Leadership Role With Mouse 2.0 and Other Interface Designs?

The software giant has produced five prototypes for multi-touch mice--and the stakes are high.READ»

Jenny McCarthy Teaches Fitness on the Wii, with Semi-Annoying Real-Time Feedback

Like working out to exercise videos but wish they gave personalized feedback? Fan of Jenny McCarthy? If you answered yes to both questions, Ubisoft's new fitness game for the Nintendo Wii, Your Shape, could be for you. The key ...READ»

Inside Ubisoft's 'Your Shape' Fitness Game

Video game journalist Stephen Totilo has suggested that we may currently be in the self-help era of video games, with products on the market that promise to help you keep your brain young, quit smoking, and get in shape. The latter ...READ»

Sony Exec Confirms PS3 Motion Control in Spring

Sony's Computer Entertainment head Kazuo Hirai has been speaking to the media about his company's gaming plans, and one little nugget slipped out: The PS3 Motion Controller is due next year. Is Xbox 360 beginning to lose to the ...READ»

Sony Announces PS3 Slim

At  a press event at the GamesCom convention in Germany today, Sony announced that the long-rumored slimmer PS3 will be released September 1 for $299, a $100 price drop from its current PlayStation 3. The console will have a 120 ...READ»

Why Games Are So Expensive, and Staying That Way

Recent earnings reports from Sony and Nintendo prove that the video game industry is not recession proof. So why do games still cost so much money?READ»

StarCraft 2 Latest Game Delayed--Why Are So Many Being Moved to 2010?

Blizzard has announced that the highly anticipated StarCraft II will be delayed this holiday season, to the first half of 2010. According to Blizzard, the extra time is needed to upgrade the multiplayer network Battle.net, "This extra ...READ»

Microsoft's Shane Kim on Project Natal and the Xbox 360 Road Map

Microsoft continues to push the social networking and entertainment capabilities of the Xbox 360--games on demand and group movie viewing are two such features due in the next system update (due in August). We asked Shane Kim, Microsoft's VP of Strategy and Business Development for Interactive Entertainment, about the evolution of Xbox Live and what the launch of Project Natal means for the business.READ»

Samsung Unveils Gesture-Sensing Hologram, but It's Not World's First

We've got holograms. We've got motion sensors. And now we've got a hologram gestural interface.READ»

Is This a Microsoft Renaissance?

New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance? Microsoft's ...READ»