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Biometric Devices: An In-depth Analysis of Kinect’s Features

dbrendant — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:30:43 +0000

Microsoft’s Kinect system is making the rounds, and many reviewers on the Internet are writing about their first experiences with the gaming console. As many of our readers know by now, the Kinect offers hands-free, gesture based control during game play. A wave of your hand or a step in the right direction controls your [...]

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Biometric Devices: Microsoft’s Kinect Pays South Africa A Visit

dbrendant — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:30:22 +0000

Microsoft’s Kinect is coming into full swing these days and we’ve been reading more and more articles about the system, their bid to compete with Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s Playstation Move. Kinect offers hands-free control where you can make an avatar move as you do with the wave of your hand, punch of your fist, [...]

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Eye Tracking: Making an Immersive Game World

egutierrez — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:03:09 +0000

Video game immersion is a huge buzz word in the video gaming industry right now. So many people want to know what makes a video game immersive. Is it historical or setting accuracy? Is it all of the small details that go into a scene? Is it the difficulty of game play? If you can [...]

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Rave Reviews for Microsoft Kinect’s Face and Voice Recognition

dbrendant — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:00:55 +0000

Reviews on Microsoft’s venture into motion-based gaming that was revealed earlier this year are starting to come out. The Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect, as it’s called, was first announced 13 months ago to some interest around the blogosphere and gaming world. Known as “Project Natal” at the time, it was to go up against a [...]

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Eye Controlled Video Games? Better Late Than Never

dbrendant — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:00:25 +0000

A recent article published in New Scientist may be a little late to the Eye Tracking party as far as we’re concerned, but it’s certainly good to see more eye tracking news in mainstream media, even if it is focusing on something that’s no novelty to most within the industry. The “innovation” article focuses on [...]

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Project Natal: Targeted Advertising, a Biometric Nightmare

dbrendant — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:05 +0000

In recent weeks, we at Eye Tracking Update have centered a lot of our attention on new Apple products, and that doesn’t come as a surprise necessarily when you consider the online buzz after they introduced the iPad earlier this month. News of the new iPhone has been racing around the web for a few [...]

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No buttons necessary: the future of gaming is eye tracking

mfox — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:07:21 +0000

It’s amazing how popular video game consoles started with a simple joystick and a button. Now we have game controllers with two joysticks, eight buttons, and a “joy pad”. Games have come a long way, and as they grow more complicated and interactive, the immersive experience requires more control. The next phase of gaming is [...]

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GDC Friday: Muybridge’s Motion

dbrendant — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:27:13 +0000

One reason GDC 2009 is so exciting is that it provides a showcase for all the newest gadgets that people have been tinkering with for years in labs and offices, garages and basements. In a way, events like these remind me of what the World Expos of the early 1900s used to be like, showcasing [...]

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You smile, they smile: GDC Wednesday

dbrendant — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:30:27 +0000

One of the more memorable booths for me at the 2009 Game Developers Conference was Optitrack’s face motion capture demo. In it, they had a girl wearing reflective facial markers at different points on her face, along with a headband with more markers. As she moved her face, a screen behind her with three corresponding [...]

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CES: Is it 3D enough? The electronics industries first stab at peripheral assisted 3D.

jbower — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:59:36 +0000

Most of the industries current attempts to create the illusion of increased 3D depth for videos games took the form of stereo-optic imaging display, where the image seems a lot out of focus until you place on the special pair of Captain Eo glasses (or for the younger audience, the pair of Shrek 4D glasses) [...]

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CES: The Latest in Gaming Headphones But Still Something is Missing… Headtracking

CES: The Latest in Gaming Headphones But Still Something is Missing… Headtracking

jbower — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:17:47 +0000

So many companies are attempting to build pseudo surround sound into there high-end line of their gaming headphones and are running into the same problem companies trying to make realistic 3d games are having, they both have no idea where the gamers’ head is located in comparison to the monitor. Eye-com Corporation (ECC) has a [...]

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Rest in Peace, Mouse… part 2

dbrendant — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:51:44 +0000

Yesterday I posted an article that I came across on Wired.com talking about new UI (user interface) trends that are overtaking the conventional mouse as the preferred mode of control. I referred to the list that Wired posted with the article, but wanted to go back and explain what each of these actually were in [...]

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