Showing posts with label Project Natal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Natal. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Natal Now is Kinect

Kinect, formerly Project Natal, uses a camera for Xbox 360 that tracks a game player in three-dimensional space, tracking 48 points on a body and providing a more-realistic gaming input capability. The infrared camera improves the quality of input to a game program in somewhat the same way that a Wii controller does.

Think of tracking user response to a volleyball lob, for example.

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