Kinect is the new release from Microsoft for the Xbox 360. It is a new twist as it 'Takes the controller out of your hands' by allowing you to make a physical movement and it appear on screen.
"Kinect works using an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and a custom processor running proprietary software.The camera looks for your body, locks onto it, measures the three-dimensional positioning of 48 key joints in your anatomy and ignores everything else. Simple. So you can forget about the annoyances of poor lighting or furniture messing up the image calibration, which was perhaps the greatest disappointment with Sony's PlayStation Eye technology. It also supports up to four players, so once you've bought it, you won't need to upgrade or buy multiple versions of the device."-Techradar.com
There’s no denying that Kinect is a fascinating piece of technology that has the potential to help continue the evolution of gaming into new and exciting frontiers. The retirement of the standard controller is inevitable, so other ideas such as Kinect look promising but in my view Kinect simply isn’t ready for prime time right out of the box. Right now there aren't many games out that work with Kinect. Playing some staple games of the Xbox 360 such as Halo or Call of Duty would be a more exciting turn of events that a buyer like me would be very interested in. Perhaps in the near future, we’ll see some more games come out for it and some software improvements but only time will tell.
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kinect isn't made for hardcore games like call of duty, battlefield, gears of war, etc.
kinect is a motion sensing technology used with the xbox360 and its control panels.
kinect's role in first person shooters is for more minor stuff. some things microsoft said game developers might offer in the feature for hardcore games could be things like headtracking, signals, etc.
and btw, kinect does not use an RGB camera. it uses infared light, and captures the information from the infared light. it has its own infared light source built inside.
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