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HowStuffWorks.com Tech Editor Holly Frey’s done at E3 2011 — here’s her wrapup from day three.
Alright, on Thursday there was no messing around. I would have some special together time with the Wii U no matter what! The last two days, I visited the area of the show floor I lovingly call Nintendo City, but to get actual play time with the Wii’s successor would have taken a minimum of a five-hour wait in line. That’s not a typo or fever dream. Five hours, minimum.
It’s no secret I love Microsoft Kinect hacks — I’ve posted videos of some on here in previous blog entries. Now I’d like to include a pair I discovered while browsing other tech sites. The first I learned about on CNET. It’s a video of a Roomba robot following gesture commands given by a human using the Kinect device as a camera. Click through to see the video.
On November 29, 2010, Microsoft announced it had sold 2.5 million units of its Kinect control system for the Xbox 360 within the first 25 days of the peripheral hitting the market. The device is selling well despite the reports that you need a large room with sufficient lighting to take advantage of the Kinect controller. Compared to the overall Xbox 360 video game library, there are only a few titles that take advantage of the Kinect’s capabilities. But that hasn’t stopped some enterprising hackers from tweaking the Kinect.
How Microsoft Kinect Works – an amazing use of infrared light
by Marshall Brain | November 5, 2010
Whether you love or hate the User Interface that the Microsoft Kinect implements (some people just don’t like to wave their arms to change channels), the technology behind it is incredibly interesting. You get a sense of how interesting it is by watching this video, where a guy uses his night-vision goggles to see the [...]
Visiting Microsoft’s Xbox 360 booth at E3 is like getting an appetizer sampler plate at a restaurant — you get to see a little of everything. It’s a great booth to hit if you want to get your hands on games like Tron, Fable III or Rock Band 3. While other gamers, vendors and journalists are hitting the official booths for those games, you can wait in a much shorter line over at Microsoft to get a chance to test drive the games.
Once you read the article and sync up with his vibe, you look at this video from Microsoft and see exactly what he is talking about…
…It’s like Leave It To Beaver has invaded the video game industry.
As I type this, I’m sitting on a plane, flying toward Los Angeles. It’s time for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3. The video game conference nearly died out a couple of years ago when organizers decided to scale back and offer a more sedate experience. I guess video games and subtlety don’t go hand in hand.
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