Showing posts with label Kinect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kinect. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Microsoft Launches Xbox Promotions: New Platform on the Way

Microsoft announced on Tuesday its Xbox 360 Christmas and holiday bundles, one with Kinect, one without.

The first bundle contains an Xbox 360 with a 250GB HDD, Kinect, the games Kinect Adventures and Carnival Games: Monkey See Monkey Do, plus 3-months of Xbox LIVE Gold for a suggested retail price of MRP $399. Microsoft bundles

The second bundle is equipped with a 250GB HDD, Fable III and Halo: Reach, plus 3-months of Xbox LIVE Gold for a suggested retail price of MRP $299. New platform

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.

"Tokens" are the New "FLOPS," "MIPS" or "Gbps"

Modern computing has some virtually-universal reference metrics. For Gemini 1.5 and other large language models, tokens are a basic measure...