Nine Inch Nails puts Kinect, various other gadgets to use on festival tour

Nine Inch Nails puts Kinect, various other gadgets to use on festival tour

It’s no secret that Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor likes to do things a bit differently. He and long-time art director Rob Sheridan have assembled a crew to make the group’s festival dates this year as visually stunning as the audio promises to be. Along with a slew of other high-tech gadgetry, there’s a Kinect that handles motion tracking with captured movements projected onto a handful of mobile video screens. Alongside thermal and regular ol’ video cameras, live video content is piped on-stage during specific parts of the set — with a hand from the folks at Moment Factory, a multimedia environment studio. Reznor also notes that much of the system is “a bunch of homemade software and hardware effects that they’ve tied together” with the goal of creating a film-like quality to an hour and a half performance. For a 13-minute, behind the scenes look at the prep work, head on past the break.

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Xbox One voice commands will only work fully in some launch countries, languages

Earlier this month Microsoft trimmed the list of countries where its Xbox One will launch to 13, and now it’s revealed the new Kinect voice commands will only support all of its features in some of them. Pointed out by a thread on NeoGAF, a disclaimer on Xbox.com listed only a few countries with support for voice commands at launch. Since then, MS Director of Product Planning Albert Penello has responded with more details, explaining that, at launch the Xbox One will support eight languages / dialects: English (US), English (GB), French, Spanish (MX), Spanish (ES), Italian, German and Portuguese.

That said, some voice features — like the “Xbox On” command — will not be available everywhere at the start, with only the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany set to receive them out of the gate. As Penello explains it, users will select their language first, and then get a list of countries it’s supported in. Confused? A more thorough explanation is coming to the Xbox website at some point, and Kinect’s supported languages are expected to grow with updates after the system launches — whenever that launch is.

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Intel elaborates on depth camera tech: Ultrabook and tablet integration in 2014

While the details of the launch of Intel depth camera Perceptual Technologies integration with the Creative Senz3D camera haven’t changed all that much since our introduction earlier this year, the company has continued to elaborate on what – exactly – will be coming. What we saw earlier this year at Computex 2013 was the first […]

Manga Generator Puts You in the Comics

As much as I think the Kinect is a cool device, I have to say I don’t play many Xbox 360 games that use it. However, this interactive concept being shown off in Japan is something I’d definitely want to try.

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Developed by the Shirai Lab at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Manga Generator lets you strike poses and automatically puts you into the panels of a Manga comic.

You can either jump into a pre-written story or have the Kinect sensor and custom software algorithms determine your body positions and select the appropriate backgrounds and props. When you’re done creating your personal Manga, you can print it out for posterity.

There’s no word on if or when Manga Generator will be released to the public, but one YouTube commenter said it best “BRB GOING TO JAPAN.”

[via DigInfo.TV]

 

Weekly Roundup: Gamescom 2013, Ballmer stepping down, Connecting Cape Town, and more!

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You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Microsoft: Xbox One and Kinect Will Definitely Not Be Sold Separately

Microsoft: Xbox One and Kinect Will Definitely Not Be Sold SeparatelyMicrosoft has had an indecisive month or two recently, contemplating a series of U-turns in its attempts to compete with the forthcoming PlayStation 4. But now, it seems to have settled on a final decision about one of the most controversial flip-flops: every Xbox One WILL come with a Kinect.

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Daily Roundup: TiVo Roamio review, PS4 release date, Kinect in-depth hands-on, and more!

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Let’s take a deeper look at Xbox One’s next-gen Kinect (video)

Let's take a deeper look at Xbox One's nextgen Kinect video

While Gamescom is still technically yet to begin, the Microsoft tanks have already arrived in Cologne. We’ve already been gifted with some details about new titles, but we also managed to get a little more intimate with the new Kinect. You know, the one you there’s been all that fuss about. But if you do plan on using it, skidaddle past the break to see more about how it works.

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Augmented reality table lets you explore a book without opening it (video)

Gensler and The Hive build digitally augmented table linked to 4K display, awesomeness video

We’ve seen touch-friendly tables before, but they’re rarely so slick as the Multi Surface Experience, a newly launched collaboration between design firm Gensler and ad agency The Hive. The installation lets guests explore Gensler’s architectural portfolio (the book you see above) just by walking up to a wavy table. An overhead projector, Kinect for Windows and special software present an interface wherever people stand; when users choose to learn more about a project, it pops up on a wall-mounted 4K display. The current experience is sadly confined to Gensler’s Los Angeles office, but it’s also the start of teamwork that could lead to commercial designs. Don’t be surprised if company lobbies are much livelier in the future.

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Kinect Used To Control Chromecast

When Google first introduced their Chromecast device sometime last month with a $35 price tag slapped to it, you could very well say that this is one device which is too good to be true. Well, it does seem as though this HDMI dongle has been pretty popular since its release, and right now as you read this, the Google Play store has listed a two to three week wait for shipments of the Chromecast for those who have already placed their order. The Chromecast is useful since it functions as a streaming middleman of sorts, helping stream content such as YouTube, Netflix and other compatible services from a tablet or smartphone to a big screen TV. It seems that there is more to the Chromecast than meets the eye, as a a programmer has figured out a way to control Chromecast apps on a TV using the Kinect for Windows SDK.

Thanks to Leon Nicholls, who happens to be a software engineer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has shown the world his Chromecast-Kinect experiment as you can see above in all of its video glory. A video app was depicted to be streamed to the TV via Chromecast, with the Kinect sensor being connected to a nearby laptop. A special program that Nicholls wrote can interpret the sensor data from the Kinect, taking a few seconds for such data to be sent to the app that runs on the Chromecast. With this, you can use the Kinect to move the video on the screen, and pushing in your hand will result in pausing or resuming the video. Neat, no?

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