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Robotics Expert Uses Kinect to “Connect” Human and Machine
Thank you, Japan. I’ll start with that, because it looks like they’ve just helped us produce yet another amazing innovation for the Xbox Kinect. In this case, it’s teleoperator software for controlling a robot! Stick around for the interview video after the fold. Information is sparse, but at least we know his name and some ...
Microsoft Vows to block AO Rated Games from the Xbox 360 Console
Earlier this month, I mentioned the roll out of a sex game for the Kinect—ThriXXX’s creepy, yet entertaining “groping simulator” involving a floating, disembodied hand—and I pondered what Microsoft might do about this sort of thing. Well, it looks like we’ve gotten our answer. Microsoft took one look at the game and said, “Get it ...
Trade in Private Facebook Shares Surges on Matching Services
The powerhouse social networking site, Facebook, still isn’t a publicly traded company; however, this doesn’t stop interested individuals from trading in its shares. In the past, movement of private shares has been largely opaque, but recently the advent of buyer-seller matching services such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, a little bit more insight can be gained ...
2010 Round Up: The Limewire Roller Coaster Crash
The P2P music trading company that caught the attention of the music industry, LimeWire, led everyone on a merry chase after they attempted to hold onto the last vestiges of their service in the face of an onslaught. First, the RIAA and MPAA took it upon themselves to do everything they could to sue them ...
2010 Round Up: Kinect Revolutionizes I/O
The Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect controller has done more than simply captivate millions—it’s captured the hearts and minds of thousands of homebrew hackers, the DIY community, and spurred a sudden Pandora’s Box flood of innovation. At first, Microsoft didn’t know what they were looking at. In fact, they reacted to the emergence of people interested ...
Comcast Takeover of NBC Universal Approval Imminent, Final Deal Delayed Until Next Year
The Federal Communications Commission has announced without much gusto that they will be approving the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, but with some caveats. The exact details of the restrictions, however, themselves seem to be restricted. While the FCC held a “background” conference on the deal this morning they asked that government officials not be quoted directly ...
Chinese Hacker Connects OpenNI Kinect Drivers With 3ds Max
In the realm of 3D rendering and animation software 3ds Max is one that’s been around for what seems like forever and I know 3D artists who swear by it. So, when I came across a video showing how a Chinese hacker hooked the OpenNI drivers for Kinect up with the 3D software. The skeleton ...
The Next Big Thing: Embrace the Cloud
As computer networks began to grow and the possibilities of offloading both storage and computing from local machines became a reality, the cloud as we know it today was born. It lives as an emergent phenomena in webmail, offsite backups, even Skype, Twitter, and other communication platforms. They all take place in the “out there” ...
Windows Coming to ARM, Will Intel Get Edged Out?
As tablets and other mobile platforms begin to rise in sales—predicted to outshine even desktop PCs within the next few years—a lot of hardware and software companies are looking to cash in on this ascending star. Microsoft among them, partnered with ARM in July to start producing chips that can run their titular software, Windows. ...
Microsoft Kinect as a Perfect Foundation for Amateur Animators
Animation is foundational to pretty much all computer generated special effects, the entire video game industry, and even a great deal of entertainment. Part of animation, of course, is creating effective renderings of the motions of things—and often those things happen to be human beings, or at least ape human motion. Numerous extremely expensive tools ...
