Microsoft’s Kinect was announced at a huge performance at the 2010 E3 trade show. The Xbox Kinect is the official name for the Natal project Microsoft announced last year. The Xbox Kinect uses full-body motion capture to control games. As an add-on package to the Xbox 360 gaming system, the Kinect can be sold in November or October of this year.
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How the Kinect works
A two-camera system is built into the Xbox Kinect. Depth is captured by one camera, when an additional takes RGB color photographs and video. Combined, these cameras can re-create full body motion.This user interface system will eliminate the need for a hand-held controller.
The games available for Kinect
The Microsoft Kinect, as an add-on to the Microsoft XBox, is slated to debut with a fairly wide range of games. These games will contain a Star Wars game from LucasArts. There are six games the Kinect system is already being demonstrated with. The most exciting thing, for numerous gamers, is the possibility that Xbox games like Halo Reach may migrate over to the Kinect as well.
Will Kinect be the only live controller
The success of the Nintendo Wii has encouraged other console makers to work on hands-free control systems. The Microsoft Kinect is not the only system like this, though. Sony’s Move system will sell for about half the price of the Kinect. With the Wii's commercial success, it has been proven that interactive gaming is the way to move gaming to a wider - and therefore more profitable – audience. Though the Xbox proved very popular when it was first released, it commercially lost over $ 1 billion - - proving that games have to be sold to more than just hard-core game enthusiasts.
Sources:
Engadget.com
edition.cnn.com
VG247.com
