kinect
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Most Accessibility Accessories Should Still Work on Xbox After Ban, Microsoft Claims
Xbox claims its latest efforts to clamp down on third-party accessories won’t impact accessibility-minded gamers who rely on third-party devices to play their games, so long as they keep using the Xbox-branded accessible controller. Last month, Xbox released a patch that quashed various third-party accessories not explicitly authorized by Microsoft. Any device that Xbox doesn’t…
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The Xbox Kinect Might Be Dead, But It’s Still Used For Ghost Hunting
We’re mere days away from the launch of the Xbox Series X and S consoles. One of the big peripheral hardware changes of this generation is the Kinect being dropped. And out of respect it’s worth reminding ourselves of one of its key uses outside of gaming – ghost hunting. Kinect Ghost Hunting Some of…
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Microsoft Kinect Refuses To Die
Kinect was never for you. Yeah, you with the Xbox One that was bundled with a Kinect. That big honking spatial camera was an impressive piece of tech, but it never did you much good as a console add-on did it?
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This Kiwi Music Video Was Filmed With A Kinect And Industrial Laser Scanner
Video: New Zealand electronica artist Devin Abrams, under his solo project Pacific Heights, has just released a music video for his newest single Buried By The Burden. The video wasn’t actually filmed with any cameras, though — instead, the entire environment was depth-captured with an industrial laser scanner, while the song’s vocalist Louis Baker’s likeness…