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ChaLearn Challenges You To Teach A Kinect Instant Gesture Recognition
There’s seemingly no end to the clever things that people can do with a little know-how and a Kinect camera, and now it seems like the machine learning enthusiasts at ChaLearn want to use the Xbox...
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Fly Or Die: The New Xbox “Metro” UI
Erick isn’t much of a gamer, which is why he’s particularly suited at assessing the new Xbox 360 UI, dubbed Metro by those in the know. Aside from the obvious changes in design, the UI actually makes...
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Come On, Microsoft: Siri Is Making You Look Terrible
Last week, Microsoft overhauled the Xbox 360. The update brought dozens of new features, but there was one I was particularly excited about: when paired with a Kinect, the new interface was said to...
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Kinect Comes To Windows On February 1st
We knew that Microsoft’s hit motion-control accessory for the Xbox 360, Kinect, was coming to Windows eventually. They’ve been hinting at it, people have been hacking it, and they even released an SDK...
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Now You Can Control Your Galaxy Nexus By Groping A Wall
The Galaxy Nexus’s 4.65-inch display may make it a handful for some, but a nifty new project from a developer known as DDRBoxman allows users to interact with their Galaxy Nexus on an even grander...
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Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your Laptop
The Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won’t be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an...
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Microsoft Updates Kinect Hardware For Official Windows Release
We’ve known for some time that Microsoft would be bringing official Kinect support to Windows this week, but one thing they kept quiet was the fact that they’d be debuting a new version of the hardware...
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Lip Reading, 3D Desktops, And NUI: Microsoft Plans To Reinvent User Interaction
Deep in the skunk works of its Research and Labs divisions, secreted around the Seattle area, Microsoft is working on totally reinventing the way people interact with their computers. Very little is...
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Draw Your Way To Salvation In The Kinect-Powered Doodle Defense Game
I’ve played through my share of tower defense games in my day — and have gotten hopelessly addicted to a few of them — but none really approach Andy Wallace’s Doodle Defense when it comes to execution....
View ArticleThe Kinect-A-Sketch: A Homebrew Robotic Sketcher
This video from Waterloo Labs shows a bunch of young, excited interns building what amounts to a computer-controlled Etch-A-Sketch. The project uses an Xbox Kinect sensor to find the nearest point in...
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At Last, Kinect Can Size You Up For Jeans
The Kinect’s powerful depth- and position-sensing sensors have been put to many a noble purpose: basic artificial vision, translating sign language, controlling humanoid robots, and real-time 3D...
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Microsoft’s SemanticMap: After Project Glass, Another Take On How To Make The...
Augmented reality seems to be all the rage this week: Microsoft earlier today got in touch to give us the heads up on some technology it’s been working on — its designs for how to make a user’s...
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Wreckateer: Microsoft Aims For Angry Birds With New Casual Game
We haven’t been paying much attention to new games this E3 but a new title, Wreckateer, should be interesting to casual gamers who have a passing familiarity with another title involving avians who are...
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Purported Xbox 720 To Cost $299 With Blu-ray Support, Kinect 2 And Virtual...
The current gen Xbox may be a year past its halfway point but a purported “leaked” document dating back to August 2010 from a Microsoft presentation details the next gen Xbox 720 in great detail....
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Hacker Uses A Kinect To Help His Mom Email After A Stroke
Here’s a heartwarming story for a Hackathon Saturday: Chad Ruble’s mother suffers from aphasia due to a stroke. She hasn’t been able to use a keyboard for years because she is simply unable to...
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Kinect For Windows Arrives In China; SDK Update Brings Improved Sensor...
Microsoft has rolled out a notable update to its Kinect for Windows SDK today, while also announcing the availability of the Kinect for Windows sensor in China. The new version of the SDK introduces a...
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The New Internet Explorer For Xbox May Be Clumsy, But Wait Til It Gets Kinected
Internet Explorer suddenly became one of the most widely available Internet TV browsers today as it starts rolling out to Xboxes. And early reports say its joystick-based interface is awful. Whatever....
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Kinect Fusion, Microsoft’s 3-D Modeling Technology, Is Coming To The Kinect...
Kinect Fusion, the Microsoft Research project which uses the Kinect sensor to create 3D models of objects and environments, will be made available in the Kinect for Windows SDK, Microsoft announced...
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Personify Live Uses Microsoft Kinect Or Other Depth Cameras For A Video...
A video conferencing startup called Personify, Inc. (formerly Nuvixa) is launching its first product next week, which will allow users to take advantage of the motion sensing technology in Microsoft...
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Inside Microsoft’s Cauldron Of Ideas: From Kinect, Bing And Killing The Blue...
If Steve Wozniak is worried Microsoft is now more innovative than Apple, the root cause for that concern undoubtedly lies within Microsoft’s network of research labs. Dotted around the globe, from...
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