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Skip the Xbox, wear a Kinect on your head

- CNN

      For the extra credit blog I didn't read an article instead I watched the video on the development of the Xbox kinect headset as a viable option to replace the kinect console.  The video starts with developers speaking on the large popularity in the selection of the Xbox kinect as a gaming console.  The kinect is a device that actually lets the gamer emerse itself in the game quite literally.  The kinect uses an advance technology that takes virtual pictures of the gamer and puts its outline on the screen.  Technology is developing that the gamer can use to let the gamer put the console on top of their head and uses digital mapping to tell where they are in relation to the room.  The kinect headset goes farther than most users realzie it can help plumbers in locating pipes to eradicate unnecessary drilling, and it can help tournaments in going to the next level of gaming.  People have been sited as the headset as a combination of new technologies.  Tom Blank has been quoted as saying that his project the kinect head set would propel his industry for the next five to ten years.  Microsoft took the lazer project from inside the kinect and made the lazer work on structured light to make it work as their own particular cameras.  The head set is described as having more room for error and helps develop the gamer's experience in more of a developmental aspect.  The camera's have more room to improve resolution, cameras, and overall quality.  For the kinect you must be between four and twelve feet tall, while the headset requires the gamer to be between six and twelve feet high that aspect should diminish sales of the innovational product dramatically.  Other than the new found height requirements I don't see anything really wrong with the new product, I would give it two thumbs up it sounds like a tremendous product.
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