8 posts and columns on motion sensing

New for Xbox Kinect: Bombastic Ballmer’s $2 Billion Blowout

in News on December 13, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Kinect, Microsoft’s new controllerless controller for the Xbox 360 is shaping up to be a monster hit, one that should give the gaming platform momentum enough to carry it forward for some time to come. In fact, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal says he expects Kinect to generate about $2 billion in gross revenue for Microsoft.

Microsoft Kinect on Sale Nov. 4 for $149.99

in News on June 14, 2010 at 1:47 pm PT

Microsoft’s official announcement of its new Kinect motion technology for the Xbox 360 last night was big on spectacle but light on details, namely street date and price. Now, thanks to the company’s E3 keynote and a product listing on GameStop, we have both.

Confirmed: Intellectual Ventures Owns Smartphone Motion-Control Patent

in News on March 26, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Patent #7,679,604, the broad motion-control patent I’ve been writing about all week, has passed through a number of hands over the years. First assigned to ArrayComm in 2006, it was subsequently handed over to Durham Logistics, a limited liability company that is itself managed by another obscure Las Vegas LLC called Memscom. But there’s one more company at the end of that oblique line of ownership: “Invention capital outfit” Intellectual Ventures.

The ABCs of Wii, Xbox and PlayStation 3

in The Mossberg Solution on December 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm PT

Here’s what shoppers need to know about the three most popular gaming systems, the Nintendo Wii, the Microsoft XBox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3.
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Live From Redmond: Microsoft's Turner, Bach, Mundie Talk Strong, Play Games and Introduce Us to HAL

in News on July 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm PT

While Microsoft COO Kevin Turner did a kind of modified cheerleading act at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach played the teenage boy and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie the voice from the future. It included Bach playing ball with Microsoft’s new motion-sensing, controllerless Project Natal and Mundie introducing a very creepy digital assistant with more than a passing resemblance to HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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D7 Tech Demo: Fullpower

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Philippe Kahn’s history of entrepreneurship is nearly as old as the PC itself. He developed software for the Micral N, one of the earliest commercial personal computers, back in 1973. As CEO of Borland Software, he touted himself the “barbarian” of the software industry and embraced that identity by holding one of the first press conferences for his company in a McDonald’s in Las Vegas during Comdex. Ousted from Borland in 1995, Kahn went on to found wireless synchronization outfit Starfish Software, which he sold to Motorola. He followed that up with LightSurf Technologies, a picture-messaging company acquired by Verisign in 2005. Today Philippe Kahn is at D7 as CEO of Fullpower, a company developing accelerometer-based hardware and software.
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Family Snapshots in the Splendor of HD

in The Mossberg Solution on November 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm PT

This Thanksgiving, families across the country will gather around the television just as quickly as they gather around the turkey. And with good reason: Many people will be staring at beautiful high-definition TV sets.
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