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Kinect for windows is finally available to purchase in UK

Although released on February first. Major E-commerce sites like amazon.co.uk didn’t have it advertised until just a few days agolast week, and even then it was a pre order. Ebuyer.com had pre order status of February 29th and only 20 … Continue reading

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Kinect for windows coming February, BUT all is not peachy

Microsoft have announced over at their blog that Kinect for Windows is coming this February 1st in 12 countries including the UK, Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, USA, canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. Though i can see no … Continue reading

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xbox, play, play PLAY!, PLAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

XBOX Dashboard update, going metro like windows phone 7 and the upcoming windows 8. Once you get passed the agreements, you can almost use kinect for the interface, maybe you could do that before? i don’t know, i mean who … Continue reading

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Need to buy a new Kinect, don’t use the one you got?

Well folkes, here’s the skinny, over at the Microsoft Research Kinect for Windows blog, there’s news that next year will see a new kinect that will have “optimized certain hardware components and made firmware adjustments which better enable PC-centric scenarios”. … Continue reading

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Kinect for Windows SDK beta 2 is out

It’s great that Microsoft have put efforts in helping the community utilize the power of kinect, and now we’re seeing proof that they are continuing that commitment. Today i saw a news item in my rss feeds from Microsoft Research … Continue reading

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Woah, this KinectFusion vid is Amazing!

This truely is incradible, they’re taking the 3d depth feed and converting it to model, the camera pans round and a model is created, they’ve evem got some cool multi touch drawing and interactions happening, check it out.

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Kinect SDK Beta is here, and i’ve already played, short tutorial for basics

well it’s the eve of “zelda: ocarina of time” to be released on the 3ds, and Microsoft finally released the Kinect SDK beta, totally unrelated i know, but just to get the context of time here. GMT that is, as … Continue reading

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Microsoft research is doing some interesting things

Well boys, this video was out days ago but things are slow at cassa de lartens. But this video has some very interesting works in rogrss for using cameras like the kinect for tracking and some other fandangled technology for … Continue reading

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Kinect SDK confirmed by Microsoft for this spring

The kinect is this very cool peripheral for the xbox 360 that most can’t use in their tiny bedrooms/livingrooms thanks to the US user testing, not that it matters becaue there hasn’t been a great buzz for official usage for … Continue reading

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