Kinect

Microsoft has developed “Kinect”, a motion sensor accessory for Xbox 360 that will be available in Australia in November. “Kinect” is a new software technology that can track your voice and movements without a game controller. It captures 3D motion facial gestures and body movements and it is also capable of voice recognition of some languages.

 

By remembering Friedberg (1998) and Manovich (2001) works, we can say that Kinect will provide the user (viewer) with a new form of virtual mobility where the construction of a virtual reality and simulation occurs in front of his unmoving-moving body. It requires the user immobility in the sense that he has to be in front of the television screen, but as it releases the user of a hand controller, it provides him with a feeling of true mobility, unifying the virtual and the physical space.

REFERENCES

Friedberg, Anne (1998) `The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flâneur/Flâneuse´in Nicholar Mirzoeff (ed.) Visual Culture Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 253-278

Manovich, Lev. (2001) The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press. (`The screen and the user´)pp.94-115

Thom, Greg (2010). "Out of controls gaming". Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia) 3 September p. 45. http://global.factiva.com (accessed 24 September)

WEB PAGES

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/kinect/