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.

 

The wait for the most anticipated Xbox 360 blockbuster game of the year is finally over! Gears of War 3 finally hits Singapore shores on 19th September, 8pm, with a launch event at Funan DigitaLife Mall.

Fans who have pre-ordered the Limited Edition Game or console will receive an exclusive Gears of War 3 Survivor Kit worth worth $100. The first 50 fans in line will also receive an autographed poster and ‘Gears of War 3’ hoodie sweatshirts worth $60! Stage activities start at 730pm with special appearances!

Note: This is an M18 event; please bring along a photo ID for verification.

Event Details

Event Name: Gears of War 3 Launch
Date: Monday, 19 September 2011
Time: 7:00 pm onwards
Venue: Funan DigitaLife Mall Main Atrium

 

Gears of War 3 is  available for pre-order now at participating retailers. Fans who pre-order the Limited Edition game and the Limited Edition GOW3 Console will be able to collect their copies of ‘Gears of War 3’ during the official launch event at Funan DigitaLife Mall on 19 September, starting from 7.30pm. General availability begins from 20 September 2011 at all major participating retailers. Continue reading »

 

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.

 

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
 

Microsoft announces the new Windows Phone 7 Mango update with 3 key improvements – Communications, Applications, and the Internet. The video and summary after the break.
Continue reading »

 

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

 

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:

 

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.

 

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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