Posts Tagged ‘kinect’

Could Kinect Be Coming To Laptops?

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsofts Kinect has certainly been popular among consumers and hackers a like.

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Windows 7 vs. Linux Mint 12: Hardware Acceleration Benchmark

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This test proves once more that Windows 7 comes with better GPU drivers, as it is proven to be 50% faster than anything that Linux has to offer while running on the same hardware. System Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.10 GHz Intel GM 965 (X3100) Graphics 3 GB of RAM Software used: Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit Linux Mint 12 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1 NOTICE: This test was done on the same hardware as the hoax videos that were uploaded by user/powerpenguin1 “powerpenguin1″. Videos on his channel are obsolete and irrelevant since he did not enable hardware acceleration on Firefox on Windows, while enabled it on Linux.

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Microsoft’s XBox 360 Top Seller for 12 Straight Months

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips The bad economy notwithstanding, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been very successful. For 12 straight months, the Xbox 360 has been a successful selling console

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Kinect for Windows to launch in Feb 2012 : Retail Pricing, Availability

Microsoft Kinect has been a revolution of sorts since it was launched and continues to be. With NUI (Natural User Interface) tracking features like motion-control, gesture-tracking, voice recognition…

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Microsoft CES 2012 Keynote – Windows 8 (part 1/2)

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★ Follow me for updates ★ YouTube – youtube.com Twitter – twitter.com Google+ – plus.ly Facebook – facebook.com —————————————————————————————————————- Part 1 – www.youtube.com Part 2 – www.youtube.com —————————————————————————————————————- Top exec Steve Ballmer used Microsoft’s final keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show to tout the tech company’s future projects, most notably Windows 8 and the Windows Mobile operating system.

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Kinect Coming To Windows February 1st – Preorder Now!

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips It seems like a long time ago that I was reporting on a hacker winning a prize fund after he created a driver that allowed him to use Microsofts Kinect sensor with Windows 7. Then not too long after that Microsoft announced that they were officially going to support Kinect on Windows and they released a developers kit for it. Microsoft have since given us a few little bits of information like the fact that the Kinect sensor for Windows will be slightly smaller and better at close range than the current Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360

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Microsoft Kinect in Science and Medicine

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Xbox 360 was released in November 2010, since then it has become a sensation. The Xbox 360 is great for playing games. But it does more than that

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Microsoft launches the Kinect Accelerator program to help startups

Kinect entered the Guinness Book of World records in the very first month of its launch. And its been such a success story for Microsoft ever since. Taking this forward, Microsoft, in partnership…

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Kinect for Windows website is now live

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Microsoft has launched the Kinect for Windows website. In fact it’s more than just a website – it really kick starts the journey for the Kinect for Windows commercial program that’s coming in early… For more visit The Windows Club

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