Xbox Kinect, Hands-On

I have jumped in front of an Xbox 360 and tried Microsoft’s Kinect motion control system (formerly known as Project Natal) with Kinect Sports, Driving and Dancing Central. I do “ok” at bowling, but I’m clearly a lame dancer… meh. Anyway, the goal of this exercise is to report on how good Kinect is as a game controller, and the results are quite good – with a few caveats.

Kinect does a great job at detecting the player’s presence (one or more) and at responding to user interface commands like selection and confirmation. depending on the game, you might have to “hover to select” or “swipe to select”, but either way, it is fairly easy and intuitive. There was no setup, I just showed up and played.

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