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Pictures of Kinect

Today, I came to these friends' house to play video games, but none of us will use a command. We will play with Kinect, the first system that allows you to control the console with your body.

It’s a bar full of sensors that connects to the XBox 360 console. You have to place it above or below the screen and leave a large space to play. In order for him to detect your presence, you just have to greet him with your hand.

In addition to the normal camera and the microphone, it has a thermal camera to detect the shape and movements of the body and an infrared ray emitter to measure the distances and locate me inside the room. With all this information, the system creates a 48-point digital scheme that can internalize my movements in the game.

It has been on sale since last November and costs 150 € with a game. We can find games to do sports, take care of virtual animals or drive racing cars, as well as dance. For now, these are relatively simple games, but we can already imagine what the video games of the future will look like.