March 28, 2013
Kinect may not be the best way to play games on an Xbox 360, in spite of the fact that some games for the platform are pretty good. However, one place Kinect does shine is in controlling the Xbox interface. It features all kinds of cool gestures that make it easy to control the console without touching the controller. Wouldn't it be awesome if you could get functionality like that on your Mac? With Flutter it's actually possible.
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April 2, 2012
Last month I was at Blip Fest in Melbourne, watching a bunch of musically talented geeks using their Game Boys and ZX Spectrums to make pounding yet tuneful electro beats. A projector accompanied the music, showing glitchy visualizations, vintage console classics and a real-time processed stream from a Microsoft Kinect. It was the first time I had seen a hacked unit in the wild.
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December 16, 2011
The latest update to the Xbox system has been released, bringing tighter integration with Kinect and voice control, a shiny new Metro look, and a slew of new media capabilities (with more promised in the coming months). Read on for a full and honest review of everything it brings to the table.
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June 20, 2011
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) comes and goes each year with new games, hardware, planned releases and the occasional freebie. This year Microsoft announced Kinect Fun Labs, a collection of “gadgets” that somewhat resemble highly polished Kinect hacks, free for your Xbox 360.
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May 27, 2011
Last time, I introduced you to Kinect hacking on the PC and the drivers involved, as well as a basic zombie survival game demo. While killing zombies is awesome, it's time we moved onto doing something actually useful. So I'd like to show you the Kinemote application, as well as how to use it to control both your mouse for general Windows tasks, and Xbox Media Center.
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May 25, 2011
Microsoft Kinect development has moved on to a more user friendly state now, and the drivers have been released for all to download and play with. One studio has even gone so far as to make a little tech-demo zombie game for the PC, so today I thought I'd walk you through the process of setting up the Kinect on your PC and getting the game running.
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