A Swedish company is showing technology that makes it possible to select screen items simply by looking at them.
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Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)
Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows. Kinect is a game changing technology.
As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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Steve Jobs claims # 1 in the games market with iPod Touch
Yesterday Apple CEO Steve Jobs did a live announcement of Apple’s new or improved products for the fall. Some of his claims were so preposterous it’s hard to take him with more than a grain of salt.
The show had plenty of wow’s, ooh’s and aah’s for Apple fanboys but nothing as spectacular as a new product. Most of the announcements, like the iPod Touch upgrade, had been rumored for weeks.
Apple does a good job of keeping their product line fresh and giving their competitors a target to hit.
“Steve Jobs just told an audience that the iPod touch alone outsells Nintendo’s DS and Sony’s PlayStation Portable combined, worldwide.” Engadget Continue reading
iPhone and Android fanboys and their pundits who have counted Microsoft out of the smartphone explosion may have to eat their predictions. Microsoft has announced it will ship 60 titles of the popular Xbox LIVE when the Windows Phone 7 is released in October.
Titles like “Castlevania, Halo: Waypoint, Star Wars, Crackdown, and Guitar Hero, and the ultra-cute ilomilo” (Engadget) will ship with the Windows Phone 7. Microsoft says new games will be shipping every week after that. Continue reading
The Microsoft Kinect XBox system (formerly Natal) is demonstrating a lifelike boy who can interact on an almost human level. Milo is software that uses the Kinect system. The Kinect system is expected to be released in November 2010. It will be the hottest game this Christmas.
There big players in the games market and Microsoft’s XBox 360 is one of them. Announced product sales of $20 billion world wide and growing. Steve Ballmer in his CES 2010 keynote address on Wednesday evening stressed the spring release of Games Room, a return to arcade style games. It will remind the young at heart of the 70s and 80s when games were played in arcades.
CES 1010 excitement over XBox Natal
Talking to ccc at CES 2010, Eric Brudvig Executive Editor XBox Team says there is a small bit of lag but Natal follows what the player is doing with 3D input. “It follows you exactly and it works.”
Natal 3D for XBOX coming in 2010
After the break is the leaked Microsoft interview on their consumer products this year. NATAL is definitely part of their release stategy. Robbie Bach talks extensively about making the consumer experience simpler and more fun. This will go live at 9:30 PM Eastern. It was leaked earlier and pulled.
Natal - will your computer interact with you?
The intriguing 3D interactive interface for XBox is going to be a hit with consumers when it launches late in 2010. Microsoft are making sure by leaking the price – less than $100 for the 3D camera and interface – and expected shipping rate of 5 million units.
From the demo, it looks like WII Plus. Microsoft introduces spatial hands free controller – a revolution in computing
The real break through will occur when we can compute with our hands off a keyboard and mouse.
File under: things my kids told me 15 years ago – video games are good for youI am a little shocked that Lama in line to replace the Dalai Lama likes video games but he is young. I used to play video games and sometimes wondered if the violence was bad.
Apparently not according to one of the leaders of a religion that promotes meditation and passive behavior.
In his book Whole New Mind