All About Xbox 360’s Kinect

Xbox 360 game users who pre order Kinect will get to experience the thrill of playing video games with the convenience of using no controller devices. To interact with any objects on the screen or to control the video games, it will be possible use your hands, legs, hips, voice or almost any movement of the body.

Kinect has motion sensors and a voice recognition system that allow gamers to enjoy one of the most innovative interactive gaming products ever released. As pointed out by celebrity endorser movie director Stephen Spielberg, one of the elements that makes most people eager to pre order Kinect is the Microsoft focus on making the technology of the game invisible. This moves beyond previous generational and technological learning curve limitations by allowing an elder and preschooler alike to show up for the fun.

One of the cool advantages of the game is that its requirement to be physically active. This will certainly help many of those who pre order Kinect to realize small fitness goals while they have fun. There are no preset motions, so a single player has full control of avatars by simply moving his body. Movement is not restricted to specific areas inside the game, either. Kinect avatars can move around freely in 3-D space.

Players will definitely need to have the adequate space in a living room in order to play effectively. Game designers have used real-time physics laws to calculate how certain virtual elements will react to the movement of a real human body.

In the single player game Riccochet, for example, the object is to use a virtual ball to knock down blocks at the end of a hallway. If a player uses his body to send the ball into the blocks, the game calculates the force used to propel the ball forward, as well as the boomerang effects of the ball to send it back to the player and keep it in motion.

The game Kinect Paint Party allows users to use a canvas, body motion and virtual paint to create entire 3-D painted canvases. Through voice activated commands, the user can “call up” colors and use a virtual paint bucket or his hands to create a colorful electronic rendering of a painting.

In one of the video demonstrations posted on the Xbox.com site, two users are shown using a silhouette effect against the screen with their bodies in order to emulate the shape of an elephant. The sensors capture the shadows of their elephant shadow shape in order to interject it into a current background already created by one of the users.

Kinect is being released in November 2010, and users will be excited to delve into this new technology that promises to change the landscape of gaming. Creators of Kinect have found seamless ways to re-create real-time exchanges in virtual reality.

Milo, one of the virtual characters created by developers, for example, can take a piece of paper from the hand of a real person, pull it into his virtual world, read it and accurately respond to it and the real person who is connected to the game. Sensors in the game are able to scan that sheet of paper and make its contents real to the virtual character.

The world, it seems has waited for a game like this since gaming emerged in the 20th century. Those who understand the relevance of this level of virtual gaming do not have to wait any longer to reap the full benefit of this cutting edge technology, they only need to pre order Kinect. Whole new worlds await them.

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