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Kinesis Brings Gesture Control To App Developers

August 1, 2012

Indian startup Kinesis is working to build a native framework to bring gesture and depth-based modeling developers, on the Kinect and likely soon other platforms.

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Prepare For The Mars Rover Landing With NASA’s Free Kinect Game

July 18, 2012

This week NASA and Microsoft teamed up to release a free-to-play Kinect title based around the “seven minutes of terror” of the latest mission to Mars.

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Custom Logic Turns Kinect Into A Complex Motion Controlled Instrument

July 17, 2012

New Zealand design company Custom Logic’s details the challenges of building an ambitious motion-controlled Kinect instrument.

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Kinect-Enabled Grocery Cart: Hitting A Store Near You?

June 29, 2012

Currently under development, the kinect-enabled grocery cart follows shoppers around the store and detects what items are placed in the cart and matches them to a pre-made shopping list.

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Can’t Find Your Keys? Ask Your Kinect Where They Are

June 11, 2012

If you’re prone to misplacing items around the house and also a Kinect owner, computer science researchers at the University of Virginia have an interesting new solution for you.

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Ubi And Kinect Will Turn Your Office Wall Into A Touch Screen

May 29, 2012

The Ubi technology utilizes Microsoft’ Kinect camera to track hand movements over a display and input motion commands into existing platforms.

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Kinect SDK Update Adds Face Tracking, Language Support, Overall Improvements

May 24, 2012

This week the Kinect for Windows team released a blog post detailing many new features available to developers in a new 1.5 software development kit update.

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Skyrim Kinect Update Lets You Shout People Over Cliffs

April 12, 2012

[youtube id=”5aKZHJZfUGs” width=”600″ height=”350″] Bethesda has already been good about implementing updates and patches to its western role playing epic, Skyrim, which was last year’s game of the year. With.

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Microsoft Accepts 11 Startups Into Kinect Accelerator Program

April 3, 2012

Microsoft has chosen eleven startups – all using the Kinect in interesting new ways – to participate in its Kinect Accelerator Program, which begins this month. The eleven startups were chosen from.

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Microsoft Announces Kinect Accelerator

November 21, 2011

Microsoft is teaming up with Techstars to turn Kinect hackers into a startup founders. Microsoft will choose ten finalists to be a part of “Kinect Accelerator” – a three month incubator.