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officially — but leaving it to the amateurs to hack it so that it can track breasts.The enterprising Dan Wilcox hacked his Kinect to see if it could spot his chest. “The computer searches for my manboobs and draws a bra or pasties on top,” he writes in a description for a video of his experiment on his blog. “Music is played replica Corum 101.251.90/E040PN44 Watch when titties are detected.”Note that Kinect isn't really tracking Dan's man-boobs the way it tracks, say, a person's hands. While the Kinect appears to locate a person's hands in space and then tracks their movement, Dan's description suggests that he's got the Kinect merely guessing at where his “breasts” are — “I look for a person-sized blob and use it's centroid to approximate a search box wherein to detect 2 boobs” — so it's not clear if Kinect can or would be able to track any jiggle.

Keep it clean, Kinect hackers!Kinect Titty Tracker [Danomatika.com]”This unholy marriage of Microsoft technology and Nintendo software comes from Yankeyan, who probably just gave Shigeru Miyamoto an inspiration for the Wii's next exergaming title.Yankeyan programmed this with OpenKinect drivers and Nintendo emulation, so that replica Corum 101.251.90/0006PN44 Watch Kinect recognized his motions and virtual button presses onto the emulator. “I could have placed a simulated keypad right in front of me that I can press with my hands, but I thought full body gestures were more in the spirit of Kinect,” he writes. “Of course, Mario isn't designed to be played like this, so this is really really hard.

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I think it is the most interesting new technology product I've worked on in years and I really wanted to make games for it.”I don't think a lot of people are really thinking yet what games mean on these touch platforms, the joystick is gone, there is no proxy in between you and the screen anymore. When I first saw the photos being rotated and pinch / zoomed on the iPhone I knew things had changed forever, and people are trying to replica Corum 101.251.90/0001PN34 Watch insert something back in there when clearly the best applications are the ones where the screen is a window onto a world that you can touch. I am not a fan of virtual d-pads, pointers, or other crutches, we have an opportunity on these devices to let players hold, move, touch, and feel the game in front of them and I intend to focus on that.

“Devine has already started work on his first game, a title for the “Mac desktop.” He even provided a clue, this picture:”Now that Microsoft's Kinect camera sensor has been hacked from mere video game controller to homebrew developer's plaything, we've seen some amazing new applications. This flying machine that uses the Xbox replica Corum 101.251.90/0003PN54 Watch camera's “eyes” to see is (perhaps) the coolest.Instead of being hooked up to an Xbox 360 to play games, Kinect is sending visual data to a Linux box onboard the mini-copter, letting the quadrotor fly autonomously, detect its own altitude and avoid obstacles. A back-up motion capture device provides other data—lateral and yaw—and provides a safety back up for altitude detection, should Kinect fail at some point.

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Graeme Devine joined Apple's iPhone Game Technologies division last year. Devine tells Kotaku that his last day at the company was Friday.He says he left the company to return to game development, concentrating specifically on the iPhone and iPad.Devine held a key role at Apple, a position crucial to helping usher in more robust, more replica Corum 137-424-47-0026-EB34 WoMen's watch gamer-friendly titles to the successful iPhone, iPad and iPod platforms.”My job there was basically to make gaming on the iOS devices fantastic,” Devine said. “Basically that meant looking at the technologies involved and sure the software played well with the hardware, to look at upcoming hardware/API and say 'Yup, that is a good thing'.

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“PlayStation Eye martial arts game Kung-Fu Live hit the PlayStation Network today, forever cementing the grinning face of Sensei Oskari in our brains. See more of Oskari in action and learn how to win his bandana at the PlayStation Blog.Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.”The man replica Corum 137-423-47-0023 EB34 WoMen's watch behind Nintendo's insanely popular fighting game series, Super Smash Bros., worked tirelessly to give fans their GameCube sequel to the Nintendo 64 original. He calls the of that game “grueling” and part of a “really destructive lifestyle.”Masahiro Sakurai, the game designer of Super Smash Bros.

and its two sequels, writes in a new magazine column about the hardships of development of the GameCube entry, Super Smash Bros. Melee. He also says we'll likely never see a Smash Bros. game that “hardcore”-leaning again.”On a personal level, Melee had an extremely grueling development cycle,” Sakurai wrote in a new Famitsu column, translated by 1UP. “I worked on that game for 13 months straight, after all, without a replica Corum 137-424-47-0026 EB34 WoMen's watch single Sunday or holiday off that whole time. During parts of it, I was living a really destructive lifestyle — I'd work for over 40 hours in a row, then go back home to sleep for four.”Sakurai says he considers Melee to be the “sharpest” of the Smash Bros. games, but one that was “just too difficult.

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In addition to working on DC Universe Online (and several other games), Brian also owns Crazy Cakes of Austin, Texas.Asked why he's the next great baker, Brian laid the smack down: “My work is insanely detailed and you just do not see other designers doing what I am doing.”Brian didn't win the first round of the competition, but neither did he have one of the three worst cakes or get booted from the show. Cake Boss: Next Great Baker is an replica Corum 105.304.20/E040BA6 Watch 8-week series airing Mondays on TLC at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST.”This Official Xbox Magazine preview of Fight Night Champion offers a look at the boxing franchise's gameplay. More importantly, they're fooling with the analog controls again. Sounds like hooks and uppercuts won't need the winding motions to execute anymore.On its face that sounds like a good idea.

Part of the problem with Fight Night Round 4's analog commands is the need to really follow through on hooks (to the side, wind to the top) or uppercuts (down at an angle, wind up), which felt slow to develop or deliver, especially for those who honed replica Corum Crocodile & Diamond WoMen's their counterpunching strategy in Round 3. In the video, we're told that every punch will be keyed by a right analog gesture in a single direction - “in the left or right direction at various angles.” They say they have more punch animations as well.

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