kinect
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QA Testing Games Like Dance Central Is Apparently Gruelling And Smelly
Performing quality assurance testing on traditional video games can be gruelling, having to sit in front of a monitor for hours on end, performing the same sequences while keeping an eye out for bugs and glitches. But you know what sounds much worse? Doing QA testing for games requiring physical exertion, like Just Dance, Dance…
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Report: Contractors Have Listened To Inadvertently Recorded Audio From Xbox Owners’ Homes
Microsoft contractors working on Xbox have gained access to audio recordings of Xbox owners’ home life, a Vice Motherboard report revealed today. According to the report, accidentally triggered Xbox voice commands would result in audio recordings stored by Microsoft, which contractors could hear.
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Let’s Play Fru, A New Kinect Game That’s Actually Good
Video: Folks, the Kinect lives! A new platformer called Fru just came out for the Xbox One’s motion sensor. It uses the sensor in a really clever way, as your body affects the layout of the 2D platformer. Take a look.
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Kinect Involved In Ancient Egypt Kerfuffle
Last year, a pair of German artists claimed to have “stolen” scans of a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti — housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum — using nothing but a Kinect. Now, experts are lining up to call bullshit.