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Xbox 360 Kinect Has Gone Mobile

Not mobile in the sense of “Hey, I can play my 360 on my iphone!” but more in the sense of “Hey, my 360 is independently running those flying robots over there”. Some “Kinect Hackers” have figured out a way to use Kinect as a 3D radar that can track and avoid obstacles as the Quadropter it is attached to travels around the room. This is either the coolest new use for Xbox 360′s Kinect or the scariest thing to come out of video games since PediSedate.

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Shadow Puppets From The Future

Just when you thought the Xbox 360 Kinect couldn’t get any cooler, a couple of “Kinect hackers” decided to bring shadow puppets into the 21st century. Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson, used an Xbox Kinect connected to a laptop using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. Then the openFrameworks system tracked the parts of the arm to map a skeleton onto the movements of an animated bird on their wall. Check out the video evidence after the break.

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Report: Microsoft Kinect Only Costs $56 to Make

According to information gathered by Kotaku, the Microsoft Kinect which retails for $149 only costs $56 to make, and for some reason, this is shocking people.

From Kotaku:

UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was that each of the cameras costs Microsoft approximately $56, of which the single biggest expenditure is Israeli company PrimeSense’s “reference system” of cameras, microphones and processor, which clocks in at $17.

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Kinect for Xbox 360 Coming to a City Near You

This summer, the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 will be available for demos all over the country before it arrives in stores on November 4, 2010. The 14-week tour will visit 32 North American Cities beginning with a stop in New York City and ending in Las Vegas, NV at the PBR World Finals. Users will get a sneak peek at the Kinect and will get a trial of the games you can control with your voice and the wave of a hand instead of the traditional game console controller.

Only Kinect for Xbox 360 makes it possible to play in a whole new way by identifying your movement and body position to create a truly immersive entertainment experience. See a ball? Just kick it. Begin a movie by simply saying “Xbox, play,” or browse through a music list with the wave of a hand. With the Kinect Experience Mobile Demo Tour, you can hone your skills before anyone else by playing fun new games, such as “Kinect Sports,” “Kinectimals,” “Kinect Joy Ride” and “Kinect Adventures” and MTV Games’ and Harmonix’s “Dance Central.”

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