By Faheem Abz Abrahams In the beginning… A few short years back Microsoft announced their motion gaming Xbox360 peripheral, Project Natal along with what later became a ‘demonstrating’ title by Lionshead Studios entitled Project Milo. If you don’t know what we’re on about… head here to catch-up before this becomes a ridiculous history lesson. What you really need to know…
Microsoft are integrating the entertainment system via Kinect by bringing gaming, TV and social media together in one unit with advanced voice and motion controls. The user becomes the remote control through voice and gesture control and this new feature marks the most significant update from Microsoft for the Xbox 360. TV, video, movies and music will be instantly searchable,…
The U.S. went Xbox 360 crazy the week of ‘Black Friday’ selling 960,000 consoles – making it the biggest sales week in the history of Xbox. That figure included 800,000 units being sold in 24 hours. What’s quite astonishing is that it’s taken seven years to set the record… From Major Nelson: Entering the seventh year of its lifecycle, Xbox…
This is the week that Kinect celebrates its first birthday. The ‘gesture’ controller launched internationally on 4 November 2010 and in South Africa on 10 November 2010 and went on to set a Guinness World Record as “the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in 60 days”. While it may simply be seen as a gaming peripheral, there has been others who…
Ubisoft My Self Defence Coach for Kinect is the first video game of its kind and helps players develop the self-confidence they need to react more efficiently when facing troublesome situations, and allows players to discover ways of protecting themselves from various forms of physical assault. My Self Defence Coach arrives locally on November 4, 2011.
Undead Ed has just jumped up with uncontrollable excitement about this announcement. He is belting “summer loving had me a blast” into what looks like r0gue’s forearm. That’s the kind of crazy that the announcement of the ‘Grease’ game has elicited around the Zombiegamer camp. I’m just wondering which of the two wants to be Olivier Newton-John’s Sandy…
The game will be coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with full Kinect and Move support this ‘Fall’ – which is Spring in the Southern Hemisphere and much closer to the “summer loving”.
During an interview with Gamespot, Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice-president Phil Spencer confirmed that 343 Industries’ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will support Kinect. He did not clarify exactly what Kinect features will be supported, but one can only assume some sort of voice control. Maybe.
A listing of the game on the EA Store and its associated boxart has indicated that BioWare may well have added some sort of Kinect functionality in Mass Effect 3.
The Willow Garage’s PR2 robot has been experimented with by “techi’s” and the bot reportedly keeps acquiring new skills like housework and even handling beer bottles.
CNET report that now engineers at the University of Pennsylvania gave PR2 some literacy skills using Kinect to recognize printed text on paper and signs as well as handwriting on white-board.
Menglong Zhu and colleagues at the university’s GRASP robotics lab experimented with a Kinect-equipped PR2 dubbed “Graspy”, which allows the robot to locate text and recognize the text using Tesseract OCR software.
While the robot’s reading isn’t completely perfect, it can even handle various fonts, text colour and read the words aloud… seriously!
“When a Wily Wizard, Mischievous Monkey and Boastful Barker fit prominently into your family game night, it can only mean 2K Play’s Carnival Games:In Action is available exclusively on Kinect for Xbox 360.” – 2K.