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Timeline: A look back at Kinect's history CNET gives a rundown of the history of Microsoft's Kinect, from the first rumors of a motion controller all the way to the technology becoming a smash hit.
Josh Lowensohn. The Kinect. That said, if you take a look back, it's not like we didn't see this coming. New York Post. September 24, Retrieved November 4, Te ch Eye. November 5, Retrieved November 15, The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, Computer and. USA Today. Wilson November 4, Ars Te ch nica. The Globe and. File: Kinect logo print. File: Kinect Sensor. Image: Kinect Te ch nologiesE3. Image: Kinect Holiday The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 's audience beyond its typical gamer base.
The Kinect sensor [9] is a horizontal bar connected to a small base with a motorized pivot, and is designed to be positioned lengthwise above or below the video display. The device features an "RGB camera, depth sensor and multi-array microphone running proprietary software", [20] whi ch provides full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition and voice recognition capabilities.
Voice recognition capabilities will be available in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States at laun ch , but have been postponed until spring in mainland Europe. The microphone array features four microphone capsules, [31] and operates with ea ch ch annel processing bit audio at a sampling rate of 16 kHz. Redesigned "Xbox S" models include a special AUX port for ac com modating the connector, [33] while older models require a special power supply cable included with the sensor [31] whi ch splits the connection into separate USB and power connections; power is supplied from the mains by way of an AC adapter.
Following in Microsoft's tradition of using cities as code names, [9] "Project Natal" was named after the Brazilian city of Natal as a tribute to the country by Microsoft director Alex Kipman, who incubated the project, [34] and who is from Brazil. The skeletal mapping te ch nology shown at E3 was capable of simultaneously tracking four people, [22] [25] [28] [34] [23] [34] with a feature extraction of 48 skeletal points on a human body at 30 Hz.
Microsoft dismissed the reports in public, and repeatedly emphasized that Project Natal would be fully com patible with all Xbox consoles. Microsoft indicated that the com pany considers it to be a significant initiative, as fundamental to the Xbox brand as Xbox Live, [25] and with a laun ch akin to that of a new Xbox console platform. The event took place on the evening of Sunday, June 13, at the Galen Center. It was announced that the system would officially be called Kinect , a portmanteau of the words "kinetic" and "connect", whi ch describe key aspects of the initiative.
In addition, on July 20, , Microsoft announced a Kinect bundle with a redesigned Xbox , to Kinect 4 be available with the Kinect laun ch. Software Requiring at least MB of available storage space, [56] the Kinect system software allows users to operate the Xbox Dashboard console user interface using voice com mands and hand gestures. Te ch niques su ch as voice recognition and facial recognition are used for automatically identifying users.
Among the applications for Kinect is Video Kinect , whi ch uses Kinect for conducting voice ch at or video ch at with Windows Live Messenger users or o the r Xbox users. The application can use Kinect 's tracking functionality and the Kinect sensor's motorized pivot to adjust the camera so that the user is kept in frame even when moving.
Microsoft openly voiced its disapproval of the bounty, stating that it "does not condone the modification of its products" and that it had "built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the ch ances of product tampering".
The USB port was left open by design. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use the m, whi ch hasn't happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of ch eating, whi ch also has not happened.
That's what we call hacking, and that's what we have put a ton of work and effort to make sure doesn't actually occur. What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, whi ch we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor. The sensor, again, as I talked earlier, has eyes and ears, and that's a whole bun ch of noise that someone needs to take and turn into signal.
They also highlighted that the experience is inconsistent with the lack of a killer app or game, and that the device has to be more than a remote control replacement for its pricing saying that "it's not must-own yet, more like must-eventually own. USA Today com pared it to the futuristic control s ch eme seen in Minority Report, stating that "playing games feels great" and giving the device 3. Caracol TV.
Retrieved September 3, Retrieved November 21, Most of the 30 million Xbox s sold since November have been snapped up by avid young males drawn to com plex shooter or adventure games su ch as Halo and Modern Warfare or R. June 5, This is what distances "Project Natal" from any o the r te ch nology on the market…" [25] Takahashi, Dean. And the n [asked], 'OK, are the re hardware solutions out the re that plug in?
April 20, Retrieved May 27, And on top of this stood one of the kids, who raised his arms and began to show how Kinect would mirror his movements. The kid yelled out, "What's your name? A few minutes later, we saw how by walking in front of a Kinect system, your body movement is matched by that of an avatar on the screen. Then we saw how you can wave your arms to flip the pages of a large "book, "which in this case was used to embed photos Kinect was taking of the family.
Standing in front of the Kinect system, the young boy began miming out the movements for a river rafting game, and high on the walls, on digital representations of giant TVs, we saw his avatar riding a raft, dipping and weaving his way down a river of rapids. Soon, the raft morphed into a platform of sorts riding on rails and here, we saw one of the directions Microsoft and its developer partners are clearly going with Kinect: to score points, the kid had to wave his arms around in order to get his avatar to do the same and accurately hit a series of targets coming at him on different parts of the screen.
If a target was high and to his left, that's where he had to put his arms. Low and right? He had to put his arms there. And so on. This looked pretty cool, and was definitely one of the things that showed the device's potential. It made me feel a little bit like it was Disneyland's Jungle Cruise on crack. Next up was a driving game, and not surprisingly, controlling the vehicle by miming a steering wheel with your hands.
The game itself looked kind of cool, and at one point, as the car vaulted high into the air on the screen, it slowed down and took on freedom of movement in degrees, and was able to totally change direction and aim at a different set of targets.
And then it became a flying car, with wings, which was being controlled by both the "brother" and the "sister," each standing on one of the "wings. And then it was time for a "Star Wars" scene, and the avatar belonging to "dad" suddenly had a light saber in his hands, and "dad" was able to control it with nothing but his hands. First he was fending off Stormtroopers, and then, of course, it was time to battle Darth Vader.
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