It is second to Nintendo, it has Project Natal coming out this year, and it turns in a profit for the company.
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Among the possible highlights: more details on Project Natal, the motion-capture videogame control-scheme Microsoft introduced last year, and a new tablet computer effort.
Previously called Project Natal, Kinect will hit store shelves on November 4 starting in the US, and then to the rest of the world.
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In that post, a commenter of ours -- aardWolf -- made the genius suggestion that people do their own "demo" videos of Project Natal.
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At a keynote address at the massive Consumer Electronics Show, Bach announced that Microsoft's gesture-reading gaming system, called Project Natal, will be for sale by the next holiday season.
We hope by now you've seen the video of Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda demoing the latest software to undergo the Project Natal treatment -- Beautiful Katamari and Space Invaders Extreme.
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Holman, along with Kish Hirani, head of developer services, sidestepped questions about MotionPlus specifically, but were more than happy to talk down Project Natal -- with a couple generations of EyeToy already under their belt.
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Microsoft announced Project Natal, a new controller-free video gaming system, which reads a players body movements with cameras and mimics them with avatars on screen, will be available for purchase by the holiday season this year.
Kinect has been touted as a way to get more physical activity into the traditionally sedentary sphere of video games since the days of Project Natal, and now it appears like Microsoft is developing some powerful new software to start quantifying just how much players are moving around.
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"We hope that this training initiative will be the start of an ongoing partnership between the University of Pretoria and the community of Zithobeni, where information and communication technologies could be more and more used for sustainable development, " says Kirstin Krauss, a PhD student from the Department of Informatics, who has piloted the previous UNESCO-funded ICT training project in deep rural Kwa Zulu Natal.
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