New Kinect games this holidays with Microsoft Xbox 360

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Oct 142011
 

Experience the magic of Kinect : Disneyland Adventures, the adrenaline of Kinect Sports Season 2, the infectious groove of Dance Central 2, the amazing car races of Forza Motorsport 4, full-body heroics with PowerUp Heroes, and crazy Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking, all enhanced with the power of controller-free gaming.

Kinect : Disneyland Adventures will be available in Singapore on 15th November 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90.
Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking will be available in Singapore on 3rd November 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90.
Kinect Sports Season 2 will be available in Singapore on 25th October 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90.
Dance Central 2 will be available in Singapore on 21st October 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90.
Forza Motorsport 4 will be available in Singapore on 11th October 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90 (limited edition SGD$84.90).
PowerUp Heroes will be available in Singapore on 4th October 2011 at a SRP of SGD$59.90.

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, an Xbox 360 game (not Kinect) that needs no introduction, will be available in Singapore on 15th November 2011 at a SRP of SGD$42.90.

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Kinect for Windows SDK Beta Refresh

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Aug 122011
 

Microsoft just released a refreshed version of the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta Refresh.

What’s in the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta Refresh?

  • Driver enhancements: stability fixes to prevent crashes, including those that appear when a PC goes into sleep mode
  • Runtime enhancements: refinements to a number of APIs, improvements in time-stamping, and the removal of non-functional APIs to alleviate confusion (they will be reinserted if and when the functionality becomes available in future releases)
If you have any feedback or problems, you can go to Kinect for Windows SDK Forums and post your questions there.
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Microsoft’s ‘Back to School’ Roadshow

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Jun 252011
 

With the June holidays ending, it’s time to get prepped for school again – and where better than at Microsoft’s ‘Back to School’ Roadshow! From Wednesday, 22nd June till Sunday, 26th June, head down to NEX to check out Microsoft’s irresistible discounts and offers on Microsoft hardware, software and Xbox products such as the Arc Touch Mouse, Xbox Kinect and Office 2010.

Visitors also stand a chance to win cash, a Kinect with Xbox 360, a Microsoft Webcam, and many other enticing prizes by taking part in daily challenges, which includes the uber exciting Kinect Hero Challenge!

EVENT DETAILS

Event Name:Microsoft’s ‘Back to School’ Roadshow
Date: Now till 26 June 2011
Time: 11am – 9.30 pm daily
Venue: The NEX main atrium


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Kinect for Windows SDK beta is Available

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Jun 172011
 

Attention to all hackers! The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is now available for you to download! For those who don’t know, the Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, and drivers which enables the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich experiences by using Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7.

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes the following:

  • Drivers, for using Kinect sensor devices on a computer running Windows 7.
  • Application programming interfaces (APIs) and device interfaces, together with technical documentation.
  • Source code samples.

I think now I have a reason to buy the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect to use with my Windows 7.

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Microsoft XBox 360 E3 Media Briefing Summary

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Jun 072011
 

These are just my notes for the Microsoft XBox 360 Media Briefing at E3 which I’ll sort out later:

New Games on the Microsoft XBox 360

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – November 8th 2011
  • Tomb Raider for XBox 360 – Fall 2012
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour (with Kinect) – 2012
  • Madden NFL (with Kinect) – 2012
  • Fifa (with Kinect) – 2012
  • Sims 3 Pets (with Kinect)
  • Family Game Night 4 (with Kinect)
  • Mass Effect 3 (with Kinect, voice recognition)
    • Choose decision with voice recognition
    • Tactical assault commands with voice recognition
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (with Kinect)
    • Customize weapons (gun smith) using gestures or voice
    • Quick optimization, randomization, testing of weapons using voice
  • All future Tom Clancy’s francise will come with Kinect

Microsoft XBox Live

  • Using voice to control entertainment, play games, watch movies, listen to music, share with friends
  • New XBox Live interface
  • Increase partnership by a factor of 10
  • Increase number of content to millions
  • Youtube is coming to XBox Live
  • Bing is coming to XBox
    • You say it, Bing finds it
  • XBox Live TV
  • Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)

Microsoft Studios and Exclusive Games

  • Gear of War 3
  • Ryse
  • Halo Anniversary
  • Forza Motosport 4
  • Fable: the Journey
  • Minecraft – this winter exclusively on XBox 360 + Kinect
  • Kinect Disneyland Adventures
    • Recreated the Disneyland Park
    • Share with Kinectshare.com
  • Starwars (with Kinect)
  • Sesame Street: Once upon a Monster (with Kinect)
  • Kinect Sports Season 2
    • Golf
    • American Football
  • Dance Central 2
  • Halo 4 – Holiday 2012

Microsoft Kinect

  • Kinect Fun Labs
    • Permanent addition to the XBox Live Kinect
  • Kinect Me
    • Become your avatar
    • Create your own avatar with Kinect
  • Finger tracking
  • Scan objects in and interact as object with Kinect
  • Live today
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Temasek Polytechnic Students Win Singapore’s Imagine Cup Championship 2011

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May 112011
 

Students from Temasek Polytechnic took the top prize today in the Singapore finals of the 2011 Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition. Called the Elder Rehabilitation and Support System (ERSS), the team’s application uses the Microsoft Kinect to aid the rehabilitation and recovery process for stroke patients.

The Elder Rehabilitation Support System (ERSS) is our solution to the problems of high cost and tedious exercises in rehabilitation process of stroke survivors.

The ERSS is using Kinect’s Technology in providing rehabilitation to stroke survivors from their numerous disabilities amongst many other diseases. By integrating the ERSS into the rehabilitation process, we can lower the cost of treatment and rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Our solution would be highly autonomous, where a nurse would bring the rehabilitating individual to the room where the Kinect console is located in. There the ERSS will guide the patient through various exercises that will be designed towards rehabilitating them back to health.

Another key feature of the ERSS is that families would be able to install the program in their home so that rehabilitation could also be carried out at home with the family members monitoring the patient.

Using Kinect, the rehabilitation of stroke survivors would be much more entertaining than just tedious slow exercises thus making the rehabilitation faster and much more enjoyable.

The complete list of winners and runners-up of the Imagine Cup 2011 Singapore Finals is as follows:

SOFTWARE DESIGN CATEGORY

First Place: Team ElderGuardian, Temasek Polytechnic – IT School
Students: Satrughan Kumar Singh, Ho Chee Boon, Wing Kin Seng and Kim Arvin Galutera Evangelista
Project: Elder Rehabilitation & Support System (ERSS)
Prize: A trip to New York City to compete in the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals,  4 x XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle, 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Lifecam HD-5000, 4 x MSDNA Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each.

1st Runners-Up: Team The Strides Analysts II, Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT
Students: Alson Wong, Kelvin Tan, Adam Bun Abdul Malik and Au Kah Khei
Projects: Silver Strides
Prize: 4 x XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle, 4 x Arc Touch Mouse, 4 x MSDN Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each

2nd Runners-Up: Team Bliss-Zard, Nanyang Polytechnic – School of Engineering
Students: Phyu Hpone Mo Khant, Chin Soo Wen, Zhao Dong and James Brian Woo
Projects: Blissymbolics Communication International (BCI)
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Life-Cam HD5000, 4 x MSDN Subscription worth more than $10,000 dollars each

3rd Runners-Up: Team Credit Mobile, National University of Singapore
Students: Danbee Shin, Nishanth Sudharsanam, Ramchander Krishna and Sivasankar Ramasubramian
Projects: Credit Mobile
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000, 4 x Life-Cam HD5000

2011 IMAGINE CUP PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Team Heal on the Move, Singapore Polytechnic
Projects: Your Health Monitor
Prize: 4 x Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Photos in Action

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Oct 132010
 

I attended the launch of the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect event and got to play some of the games that will be releasing will be releasing on November 18th together with Kinect. They took some really cool photos of us playing the games in action, and you can see how much fun we had.

Check out my blog post for more details: Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Launch Date and Prices in Singapore + StarHub MaxOnline Promotion

Here’s the slideshow:

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Launch Date and Prices in Singapore + StarHub MaxOnline Promotion

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Oct 082010
 

Microsoft Kinect is coming to stores in Singapore starting from 18th November 2010 with a suggested retail price of S$229 for the Kinect Sensor + “Kinect Adventures” game and S$469 for the new Xbox 360 4GB console + Kinect Sensor + “Kinect Adventures” game.

Approximately 15 Kinect games will be available by the end of this year. Among them are Kinect Adventures, Kinect Joy Ride, Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Dance Central and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. Also coming this holiday are EA Sports Active 2, Deca Sports Freedom, Dance Masters, Adrenalin Misfits, Zumba Fitness, Sonic Free Riders, The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout, Motion Sports and Game Party: In Motion.

New and existing StarHub MaxOnline customers can also look forward to picking up a special StarHub-Xbox360 Kinect bundle at StarHub shops next month. More information at StarHub MaxOnline Xbox 360 Kinect Promotion.

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The Future of AI, Milo the Virtual Boy

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Aug 192010
 

I will buy the XBox 360 and Microsoft Kinect just for this game or this kind of interaction, if it ever comes out. It’s simply jaw dropping and amazing. This just made me think about my discussion on “The Future of Porn“.

Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy

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