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Microsoft Research Video Demonstrates Potential Kinect Advancements
Microsoft's research group pulled back the curtain on a few future-looking technology experiments, some of which could eventually find their way to the Xbox.
In the video below, Microsoft director of applied sciences Steven Bathiche, the company's own Bill Nye the science guy, demonstrates some of the futuristic gesture based prototypes they are tinkering with in the lab. Watch the footage to get a sneak peak at a holographic image that users can manipulate, Kinect-enabled glasses free stereoscopic 3D, and a Kinect-enabled head tracking display (which would be awesome in first-person shooters). The demo also showed off Microsoft's version of a technology television manufacturers like Mitsubishi and Vizio have already demonstrated at CES – allowing two users to view different images on the same screen. This could potentially enable couch co-op or mulitplayer without having to split the screen in half.
We don't expect to use any of these features on our consoles any time soon, but we're definitely excited by their potential.
[via Engadget]
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