Kinect sure has been to places it wasn't designed for. Such is the power of hacking the devices and using them to your benefit. We have previously seen Kinect hacked to work with PlayStation 3. Not just that, some clever folks took just 24 hours to turn GMail's April fools joke into a working reality using Kinect, and much more.
Forza Motorsport 4 is one of the most highly-anticipated games of 2011, and if a video leaked to Kotaku is to be believed then we're in for a treat. Not only will the game feature more cars and more tracks but also more Kinect.
It's a headline we didn't expect to be writing, but sure enough it's true. One clever hacker has found a way to get the Xbox Kinect to work with Sony's PS3.
Vice president of Epic Games, Mark Rein, in an announcement of Unreal Engine 3 on the iPad, expressed his thoughts on the future of gaming consoles. He thought the future of Xbox gaming console could be a gaming tablet with a built-in Kinect.
After-Mouse.com is the first company to unveil a retail application based on Microsoft's Kinect hardware and Windows 7.
Engadget today has announced winners of the 2010 Engadget Editor’s Choice Awards. And not so surprisingly, just like their Readers’ Choice Awards, iPhone 4 has bagged “Phone of the Year” award, iPad is awarded as “Gadget of the Year” while Microsoft’s Kinect has been awarded with both “Peripheral of the Year” and “Game Accessory of the Year” award.
In his keynote address at MWC 2011 today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed Multitasking, deep Twitter integration, SkyDrive, Internet Explorer 9 and Kinect support, all coming to Windows Phone 7 this year.
Microsoft’s Chief Executive, Steve Ballmer, announced today that they managed to sell over 8 million Kinect units in just 60 days since launch. This figure of course has significantly outpaced the 5 million units the company had expected to sell in 2010.
The year 2010 is now coming to a close. Since I got to play with many different gadgets, I thought it will be nice if I summarized a list of my personal favorites from the year 2010.
The weekend of December 11th saw Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 surpass the 4 million unit sales mark for its motion sensing peripheral. If current sales trends stay constant, Microsoft will be on track to sell 6 million units before the year is through, which is 1 million more than their prediction before release. This bodes extremely well for the future of the Kinect gaming technology and even more so for the potential of great titles that will be released.
