Kinect
by John Biggs on January 4, 2011

Someone sneaked past security and took a picture of something called Avatar Kinect, a system for XBox Live avatar interaction in a separate “chat room” where players talk to each other outside of the games. Considering the 3D scanning capabilities of the Kinect, it’s a pretty cool idea.

by Kyle Thibaut on January 3, 2011

Kinect, for the most part, is pretty neat. While it’s enjoyable to dance around in front of your TV, my favorite part is being able to “Minority Report” the menus. I feel so cool, demoing that. Now, PrimeSense, the company behind the motion control tech on the Kinect are bringing that experience to the PC with what they call WAVI Xtion.

Name jokes aside, this is a big change in the way we interact with our machines. Even if it doesn’t work that well at first, you can bet that in only a few years it will be…….

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