Xbox Kinect ? Virtual Reality Technology or Just another Wii?

For those of you that don’t know, basically Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect motion control system for the Xbox 360 is an attachment that fits on any Xbox 360 system and turns your Xbox into a more sophisticated version of a Nintendo Wii. You don’t need a controller as Kinect includes a motorized camera and microphone alongside sensors that can map out reference points along your skeletal frame, putting you in the game.

When Kinect is released in November it will be released with basic family software like Kinect Sports and Kinect Joyride, which is the same as Wii sports and Wii Resort so as to be widely appealing to families I guess. Strangely you can buy these two games on Amazon already but the Kinect isn’t available until November 2010.

You can pre-order at www.kinectreview.org!

So why should we replace our Wii’s with the Xbox Kinect system?

Being a Microsoft system, Xbox connects wirelessly to your computer assuming you are running Microsoft Windows and have wireless broadband. This makes the transference of pictures and movies possible. So if you download movies for example you can run them on the TV that the Xbox is attached to, which is usually the main TV in the household these days. So you don’t have to buy a video transmitter or have wires trailing across the floor to watch what’s on your computer on your TV.

The Xbox Kinect is more than just a family games console, after all you can do many things that you can’t do with the Wii. The graphics are better and the Hard Drive storage on the new Xbox is far superior to the Wii. There is no need for controllers so less battery and recharging cost. If you have a young family like me, you don’t have to worry about the kids misusing the controllers or dropping them in there juice.

Kinect does have voice recognition so if the kids are getting out of order and reality wrestling rather than virtual wrestling you can just shout ‘pause’ and Kinect will pause. Unfortunately this doesn’t generally work with the kids, well… not in my house anyway. There is no doubt your whole family will have a lot of fun with this system and it is taking interactive gaming to another level.

To be fair, Microsoft were lagging behind a bit recently in the games console world and it’s about time they stepped up to the plate and with Xbox Kinect, they have done exactly that in my opinion. Whether it has bugs or little minor problems remains to be seen and as with all these things, the proof is in the ongoing sales rather than the initial sales onslaught of inquisitive techno-holics who buy any new gadget released.

Personally, I think the boffins that invent these things are just finding more and more ways to make us jump around in our family rooms acting and looking very foolish indeed! But if it is getting us and our kids to exercise more it can only be a good thing.

Kinect Review ? Virtual Reality Technology or Just another Wii?

For those of you that don’t know, basically Microsoft’s Kinect motion control system for the Xbox 360 is an attachment that fits on any Xbox 360 system and turns your Xbox into a more sophisticated version of a Nintendo Wii. You don’t need a controller as Kinect includes a motorized camera and microphone alongside sensors that can map out reference points along your skeletal frame, putting you in the game.

When Kinect is released in November it will be released with basic family software like Kinect Sports and Kinect Joyride, which is the same as Wii sports and Wii Resort so as to be widely appealing to families I guess. Strangely you can buy these two games on Amazon already but the Kinect isn’t available until November 2010.

You can pre-order at www.kinectreview.org in the US but there aren’t any release dates as yet for the rest of the world.

So why should we replace our Wii’s with the Xbox Kinect system?

Being a Microsoft system, Xbox connects wirelessly to your computer assuming you are running Microsoft Windows and have wireless broadband. This makes the transference of pictures and movies possible. So if you download movies for example you can run them on the TV that the Xbox is attached to, which is usually the main TV in the household these days. So you don’t have to buy a video transmitter or have wires trailing across the floor to watch what’s on your computer on your TV.

The Xbox Kinect is more than just a family games console, after all you can do many things that you can’t do with the Wii. The graphics are better and the Hard Drive storage on the new Xbox is far superior to the Wii. There is no need for controllers so less battery and recharging cost. If you have a young family like me, you don’t have to worry about the kids misusing the controllers or dropping them in there juice.

Kinect does have voice recognition so if the kids are getting out of order and reality wrestling rather than virtual wrestling you can just shout ‘pause’ and Kinect will pause. Unfortunately this doesn’t generally work with the kids, well… not in my house anyway. There is no doubt your whole family will have a lot of fun with this system and it is taking interactive gaming to another level.

To be fair, Microsoft were lagging behind a bit recently in the games console world and it’s about time they stepped up to the plate and with Xbox Kinect, they have done exactly that in my opinion. Whether it has bugs or little minor problems remains to be seen and as with all these things, the proof is in the ongoing sales rather than the initial sales onslaught of inquisitive techno-holics who buy any new gadget released.

Personally, I think the boffins that invent these things are just finding more and more ways to make us jump around in our family rooms acting and looking very foolish indeed! But if it is getting us and our kids to exercise more it can only be a good thing.

The next 5 years will become the greatest virtual reality technology – virtual reality – Education Industry

Virtual reality, also known as virtual reality or spiritual environment, is to create and experience the virtual world Computer System, which uses computer Technology Generate a realistic, with visual, hearing, touch and other perceptions of the virtual environment, users use a variety of interactive devices, with the virtual environment, interaction between the entities, so have a feel sensation interactive visual simulation and information exchange, is an advanced Digital Man-machine interface technology. Compared with traditional analog technology, its main features are: the operator to enter a truly interactive 3D computer-generated virtual environments, interact with, exchange. Through the interaction of participants and simulation environment, and in contact with one’s own perception and cognition of things to help inspire participants thought to wide access to the virtual environment implies a variety of spatial information and logical information.

Interactivity is the substantive features of virtual reality, the reality of the concept of space-time environment (that is inspired by ideas, access to information process) is the ultimate goal of virtual reality. Since the inception of virtual reality technology, it has been in the military simulation, advanced manufacturing, urban planning / geographic information systems, medical and biological fields show great economic, military and social, and networking, multimedia and best known as the 21st century prospect of three major technologies. Virtual reality technology to provide communication, virtual reality and virtual reality related cases enjoy downloading resources, rapid increase in personal virtual reality technology.

Virtual reality (VirtualReality, referred to as VR; they translated spiritual environment, fantasy really) is a high-tech in recent years, also known as Virtual Reality technology or artificial environment. Is the use of virtual reality Computer Simulation to generate a three-dimensional virtual world, providing the user on the visual, auditory, tactile simulation, which allows users an immersive, as a general, in time, there is no limit to observe the three-dimensional things inside. VR is a comprehensive integrated technology involving computer graphics, human-computer interaction technology, sensor technology, artificial intelligence, it is realistic to use computer-generated three-dimensional vision, hearing, smell and other sense of people as participants through appropriate devices naturally on the virtual world to experience and interact. Location of mobile users, the computer can immediately conduct a complex operation, the precise 3D images back to produce the world’s presence. The technology integration of computer graphics (CG) technology, computer simulation technology, intelligence, sensor technology, display technology, network parallel processing technology, the latest development results is a computer-aided generation of high-tech simulation system. In summary, virtual reality is the people through the computer visualization of complex data operation and a whole new way to interact with the traditional man-machine interface and the popular Windows operating compared to virtual reality with the quality of technical thinking leap. Virtual reality in “reality” generally refers to the physical or functional sense, meaning there is anything in the world or the environment, it can actually be achieved, it can be difficult to achieve, or actually impossible to achieve . The “virtual” refers to computer-generated meaning. Therefore, virtual reality refers to a special computer-generated environment, people can use a variety of special devices to their “projected” to the environment, and manipulate, control environment and to achieve a special purpose, that person is such an environment the master.

Virtual reality technology to provide communication, virtual reality and virtual reality-related cases enjoy the downloading of resources, rapid increase in the level of individual virtual reality technology virtual reality the future five years will be closer to humans, virtual reality services for the increasingly diverse of. In virtual reality applications, Internet-based applications will be an unprecedented outbreak of explosive. The integration of virtual reality voice intelligent network platform for virtual reality plug in the wings.

Microsoft created the world’s first Internet era, Yahoo and Google to create the Internet’s second century; and the Internet will be the third discipline integration of virtual reality technology, international companies. The world the birth of the great majority of Internet companies in the United States, and if China can be brought to the great type, such as Microsoft, the company’s world-class companies, the opportunity to virtual reality. And the integration of voice and intelligent reasoning techniques for intelligent virtual reality will have more room and imagination.

While Second Life is already in the field of virtual reality hiccups have risen, but more probably a great platform for virtual reality is being bred in. Perhaps it was born in the U.S., but China is more worth the wait. Its birth, perhaps in 2008, there may be other …… but no later than 5 years in the future. Forms may be broken down may also be integrated integrated application. Of course, and the human emotions and human desires of the wonderful economic integration.

Can say for the next five years, the Internet’s main character may be virtual reality. Of course, the website will lead the eternal immutable that?? YOU

Virtual Reality (demo) – Part 1