Here is some AWESOME stuff that some enterprising eggheads have been doing with next gen gaming peripherals!
Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal),[7] is a “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience” by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform, and may later be supported by PCs via Windows 8
Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands, or presented objects and images.
The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360′s audience beyond its typical gamer base.[10] Kinect competes with the Wii Remote with Wii MotionPlus and PlayStation Move & PlayStation Eye motion control systems for the Wii and PlayStation 3 home consoles, respectively.
Kinect was launched in North America on November 4, 2010,[7] in Europe on November 10, 2010,[2] in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore on November 18, 2010[4][11][12] and in Japan on November 20, 2010.[13] Purchase options for the sensor peripheral include a bundle with the game Kinect Adventures and console bundles with either a 4 GB or 250 GB Xbox 360 console and Kinect Adventures.
As of November 29, 2010, 2.5 million Kinect sensors have been sold.
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@adds102 Really?
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is this show for stupid people can’t we see the original video instead?!!! morons!
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@adds102 I’m probably gonna need his name for that
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@wellguesswhatIthink yeah google it
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yeah google it
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@adds102 you sure?
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this was a pretty trailerless tuesday
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Don’t they know that asian guy helped develop kinect?
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I hope they don’t use this in the future for 1 reason: They’re going to charge for it even if it’s just something you can rig together at home :B
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I’m sure when the Wii2 hits we’ll be seeing some crazy 3D stuff such as this. ;D
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woah! that it is some pretty cool stuff!
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Why do stupid asses with Canadian accents have to say “oot” all the time ??? It’s “aoot” you idiot …
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What great advances in porn technology the future brings! But, there seriously isn’t better hardware to use for that than the Wii’s?
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@LUNAPOLICE We have a money back guarantee on all videos that do not reach the level of awesomeness that you have come to expect from free content on YouTube! Please write us at Our House, Couch for a full refund!
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a fucking advert? pushing things with your LACK of awesomeness nowadays and these silly adverts
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I found the Wii video from 2007 has a stronger and fresher approach to playing around with the motion capture than the kinect video from this week,hopefully nintendo was watching a few years ago,btw you guys rule show that Canadian Pride!!!
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CBC is nothing but liberal media bias. Just joking.
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or CBC in english canada…
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Radio Canada t-shirt!
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@untellableEpiphany Your link is no good.
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After making those videos, Johnny Lee was actually hired by Microsoft to work on Project Natal (now Kinect).
The virtual 3D head tracking effect is actually used in the bundled Rallyball game. It doesn’t have much impact though because the tiles are so far away and spaced together. The bouncing balls have much greater depth separation but the effect is lost because the balls are moving so quickly. It’s too bad you can’t slo-mo or pause the game while keeping the head tracking active.
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@untellableEpiphany Moreover, the real appeal here is what this sort of tracking can do as a component of an already solid game. It does not make for much of a game on its own, this is where the Wii’s already established functionality comes in and the Kinect fails for this particular endeavor.
Mind you, I am not claiming superiority, the Kinect is a damn fine piece of tech that has functionality that the Wii simply doesn’t, and frankly I love variety.
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@untellableEpiphany Seeing as the connect accomplishes this by a completely different method in a completely different price range and that motion tracking is the kinect’s entire intended function instead of an inventive application of pre-existing hardware for a function not originally intended. I mean if the end is all that matters than the developers of the absolutely fantastic arcade game Police 911 beat these guys to the punch by nine years.
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that couch pop-in, were you trying to do Pickles the Drummer voices? Cause it really sounded like that
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Oh yeah, some canadianity there
CBC t-shirt..
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