The Xbox Kinect - Microsoft's New Motion Controlled Gaming System

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Fervent gaming fans who have discovered about "Project Natal" have possibly heard that it was recently re-christened to now be called Xbox Kinect. This is a new development from Microsoft that will introduce a whole new level of gaming for all Xbox users. This console will make use of a groundbreaking 3D camera as well as gesture recognition software that will take players in to an innovative gaming world, by mimicking their physical actions in the realistic world, which will then transport directly in to the game. Now, gaming will require not only your fingers and eyes, but your entire body's movement and groove. This details was revealed when the Xbox Kinect made its debut in Los Angeles in front of an invitation-only people.

By personalising the services of the well-known circus group, Cirque du Soleil services, Microsoft introduced this incredibly new product with an amazing extravagance. The event was attended by VIP's, the press as well as a lot of Hollywood superstars and was held last June 13, 2010, Sunday. Cirque du Soleil's performance lasted a mere 45 minutes but the circus troupe spent months of planning and ...
... hundreds of hours of practicing to perfect the program. 76 musicians, acrobats, clowns as well as dancers were added in for the event. Other highlights include huge projection screens spanning the length of an entire football field as well as a 40-foot logo of the Xbox. The event managers also created an elephant that was 25 feet tall. This is where they housed more projectors.

Inside Galen Centre, this show was hosted. A little unnatural forest was made in the facility also where hypnotic as well as unusual drumbeats originated. All the guests present for the event were offered incredible features that included highly advanced living rooms with rotating base and sharp shinny meteorites striking the Earth's surface as well as Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect presented an enticing puppet show especially for all who were there for the event .

Microsoft will not say much more about the device, which is considered to be a sensible marketing move to ensure followers of the Xbox 360 as well as other units will be left wanting more. What they did tell the public was that the Xbox Kinect is purely a device that will simply plug into an Xbox. This is very good news for those people who are by now really happy with the number of games that they have got for the old Xbox, as well as don't really wish to get a totally new system just to be able to try this latest one.

Microsoft's headline came at a rather good time as Sony also announced the launch of a latest movement tracking controlling console for the positive Sony Playstation 3. Now these two consoles were in direct competition with each other which was further suffering from the high competition from Nintendo Wii console in the market. The Xbox 360 connect is exclusive amongst the three consoles in that it does not require a controller or any other peripheral apart from the camera to monitor movement. Thus, it implies that motion controlled games played on other consoles were quite different from the Xbox 360 Kinect games.

Although a specific price was not provided, analysts estimate that the Xbox Kinect will be released within the price range of around 50$-200$ Operatives from video gaming companies have also discussed that an rough number of 15 games will be accessible on the launch of the game come this November.

If you feel that Xbox Kinect is just like any other gaming console and it is simply not worth investing in this gaming console, the you are probably wrong as world's popular video game manufacturers are soon introducing various gaming accessories that will help the player to play Xbox Kinect with great enthusiasm as these are really fascinating for the player .

No further information were revealed, simply because it appears like everyone is determined to keep it hush-hush. If you are really excited to know more about this amazing gaming console, then you should wait till November 2010 till it is introduced in public.

To know more about up to the moment updates on Microsoft's Kinect, read up on updates at the official Xbox Kinect Console news site.