New Microsoft X-Box Kinect Sensor Xbox 360 Simply Step In Front Of The Sensor And Kinect

by Xbox360

Product Features

• Array of 4 microphones supporting single speaker voice recognition
• Depth Camera 640x480 pixel resolution @30FPS
• Color VGA Motion Camera 640x480 pixel resolution @30FPS
• Fully compatible with all Xbox 360 models
• Revolutionary technology that includes body recognition

Product Details

• ASIN: B004NRGHWQ
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,798 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary newways - no controller required. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch moving, laughing and cheering. See a ball? Kickit. Control an HD movie with a wave of the hand. Want to join a friend in the fun? Simply jump in. With Kinect technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine. And the best part is Kinect works with every Xbox 360 right out of the box*.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a game-changing (sorry) add-on for your XBox for PC, November 30, 2011

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John L. Miller (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Microsoft X-Box Kinect Sensor Xbox 360 Simply Step In Front Of The Sensor And Kinect (Video Game)

The kinect is a peripheral for the XBox, but it can also be used with your PC if you're a programmer.

It's fair sized, with an integrated array microphone, infrared camera, and normal RGB camera. Still, I'm able to set it on my fireplace mantle beneath my LCD TV, no problem.

What does it do? Glad you asked! Hook this up to your xbox, and you can use it to control some of your xbox menu's and experiences. For example, on my 360 I use it sometimes to navigate menu's. There's also a bunch of games you can buy which are controlled by you standing up and making gestures - no physical controller needed! My favorites so far are the Kinect Adventures and Dance Central, I haven't tried many others.

Some warnings:
- you need space to use this thing. It seems to like you to be between 6' and 10' from the sensor.
- You use it standing up, and it needs to be able to see your whole body. So, don't try to play with a table between you and the kinect.
- Make sure you have room to flail around. It's easy to get into a game and forget how close you are to that priceless ming vase.

If you are a programmer, you can also play around with the kinect on your PC. There's an SDK which lets you get the depth and RGB video streams as well as audio. Works great! You can see lots of videos on youtube too if you look for 'kinect windows' or 'kinect demo' - look at the more recent stuff. You can find the SDK by searching for 'kinect sdk download'

The kinect uses a USB port. On the newest XBox-360's, there's a dedicated port with enough power on the back. You can use the kinect with older XBoxes and PC's as well, but you have to use an optional power adapter that comes with it.

If you're interested, I recommend going to a store or a friends where a kinect is set up and playing a game or two. I bought one of these cause I was excited, but I'm too lazy to hop around playing the games so far! My nephews and my son love it, though!

Overall the kinect is cool enough to try out! For the prices of 2 or 3 games it gives you a whole new way of playing with the xbox. Now if I could just get myself to expend the required energy... :)

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome, January 31, 2012

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Cobra - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: New Microsoft X-Box Kinect Sensor Xbox 360 Simply Step In Front Of The Sensor And Kinect (Video Game)

The kinect is great and works perfect ! best if used in good lighting ! Not a dark room lol I'm glad I bought it we have had fun with it and will prob use it again today ! geat buy thank you !