Head- and eye-tracking will be the next big breakthrough in motion-controlled gaming. Forza Motorsport 4 will deliver it via Kinect. But for first-person shooters, we’re still stuck controlling our look with our arms, an act as unnatural as it is inconvenient. Some University of Texas students have whipped up a solution for that. More »
In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient. More »
New Years time lapse from Dave Ghent on Vimeo.
This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year’s (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that’s not that big. More »
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The PS3 is good for motion gaming and “sitting gaming”, everyone’s fave fake exec says in his latest ad, published today. Is that a dig at Kinect’s capacity to recognise people gaming from their couch? More »
The motion controller wars start now. More »
With the Xbox 360 legally banned in China, the country is getting a Kinect clone called “eBox”. More »
