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Microsoft Kinect Breaks Record with 10 Million in Sales
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it sold over 10 million units of the Xbox Kinect motion-sensing device worldwide since its launch last November. This number propelled the Microsoft Kinect to break a Guinness world record for the fastest-selling, consumer electronics product in its first 60 days, when it sold an average of 133,333 units a…
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Microsoft Announces Kinect SDK for Windows
After the successful launch of the Kinect for Xbox 360 last November, Microsoft announced that it would release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit, or SDK, this spring. During Microsoft’s TechForum, Craig Mundie and Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment Business, unveiled plans to launch a Kinect for developers and enthusiasts before releasing it…
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Motion Gaming Taking Over Video Game Industry Action
Motion gaming is the new face of interactive video game action, and there’s no going back. First introduced by the Nintendo Wii, motion gaming has revolutionized the way we play, the way we exercise, the way we spend time together as a family. Both Sony and Microsoft have built upon the foundation that Nintendo laid…
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Kinect Fitness Games Gets High Marks For Customized Fitness Experience
The Xbox 360 is more than a gaming system, and the Microsoft Kinect is more than a savvy little add-on. Along with video game action, the Xbox 360 also plays DVDs, streams media, and combined with the Kinect, offers players a totally immersible, interactive, motion gaming experience that is controller free, and very different from…
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Xbox 360 Sets Microsoft Record, Nintendo Wins Most Sales 2010
Despite the fact that the video gaming industry as a whole experienced a decline, Xbox 360 had a stellar year, and Nintendo topped the charts for most gaming hardware sales for 2010. PlayStation 3 comes in third place, which was not the plan with the release of the popular PS3 Move motion controller. Microsoft has…
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Microsoft Kinect To Get PC Support in the Future
While no formal release announcements were made at the CES 2011, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, did hint that the Kinect motion sensor add-on to the Xbox 360 will be getting PC support in the future. How far into the future we’re not sure, we’re hoping its the ‘near’ future. During an interview with BBC…
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Avatar Kinect Expands Motion Sensor Technology Applications on Xbox 360
One of the upcoming products that debuted at the CES 2011 opening event was a sophisticated demonstration of the Avatar Kinect. As last year, Microsoft gave the keynote presentation that officially kicked of the CES 2011, and they did not disappoint. While there was no talk of tablets at all, Steve Bellmar, CEO for Microsoft…
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Microsoft Chief Declares 2011 The Year of the Kinect
The Xbox 360 gaming system has been the number one selling gaming console for more than 6 months strait, and Microsoft has indicated that they believe that the Kinect will define the brand for the upcoming year in a profound and exciting way. This is not at all hard to believe based on the fact…