The Xbox Kinect - Microsoft's New Motion Controlled Gaming System
By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2010-06-26 12:47:21 | Word Count: 708
Avid gaming fans who have discovered about "Project Natal" have perhaps heard that it was lately re-christened to now be termed Xbox Kinect. This is a new development from Microsoft that will introduce a whole new level of gaming for all Xbox users. This gaming console will use a innovative 3D camera and even gesture recognition software that will carry game enthusiasts into a progressive gaming world, by mimicking their physical activities in the true world, that will then transfer directly into the game. Now, gaming will require not only your fingers and eyes, but your entire body's movement and groove. This details was released when the Xbox Kinect made its introduction in Los Angeles in front of an invitation-only individuals.
By personalising the services of the well-known circus group, Cirque du Soleil services, Microsoft introduced this incredibly new product with an amazing extravagance. The event was attended by VIP's, the press and even numerous Hollywood superstars and was held last June 13, 2010, Sunday. Cirque du Soleil's performance lasted a mere 45 minutes but the circus troupe spent months of planning and hundreds of hours of practicing to perfect the program. 76 music artists and bands, acrobats, clowns and even dancers were added in for the event. Other highlights include huge projection screens spanning the length of an entire football field as well as a 40-foot logo of the Xbox. The event planners also created an elephant that was 25 feet high. This is where they housed more projectors.
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The event was held inside the Galen Centre. A little imitation forest was created inside the area as well where hypnotic and even unusual drumbeats started. All the guests present for the event were offered incredible features that included highly advanced living rooms with rotating base and sharp shinny meteorites striking the Earth's surface as well as Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect presented an enticing puppet show especially for all who were there for the event .
Microsoft won't say much more about the system, that is thought to be a smart marketing move in order that followers of the Xbox 360 and even other games consoles will be left wanting more. What they did tell the public was that the Xbox Kinect is purely a device that will simply plug into an Xbox. This is very good news for those individuals who are already quite pleased with the range of games that they own for the old Xbox, and even do not actually prefer to acquire a totally new gaming system simply to be able to try out this new one.
Microsoft's announcement came at a really good time since Sony also declared the release of a new action tracking controlling device for the effective Sony Playstation 3. This means that the two systems will be in direct competition with each other as well as with Nintendo's phenomenally successful wii console. The Xbox 360 connect is different amid the 3 devices in that it doesn't require a controller or any other peripheral besides the camera to track action. This means that Xbox 360 Kinect games can, quite possibly, be very different from the motion-controlled games in other consoles.
Although a specific price was not provided, analysts estimate that the Xbox Kinect will be released within the price range of around 50$-200$ Executives from gaming organizations have also revealed that an approximate number of fifteen titles will be accessible upon the release of the game come this November.
If you're thinking that the Kinect is going to be just another novelty gadget that is not worth investing in, you should also know that the world's leading video game makers are also planning to release various hardware products that a player can use with the Xbox Kinect, further enhancing the experience of total gaming immersion .
No further information were revealed, since it seems like everyone is serious to hold it hush-hush. If you are really excited to know more about this amazing gaming console, then you should wait till November 2010 till it is introduced in public.
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To know more about up to the moment updates on Microsoft's Kinect, read up on updates at the official Xbox Kinect Console news site.
