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There seems to be a lot of confusion about the new KINECTS motion controllers released by Microsoft.

KINECTS are revolutionizing the gaming industry. KINECTS enabled games, sometimes called KINECTIC Games or Kinetics Games if they are not just specifically for Microsoft KINECTS controllers only.

KINETICS is a physics term of the motion of bodies, so Nintendo Wii games are “KINETICS games” because they utilize KINETICS, the motion of ‘your’ body!

Playstation Eye games are also Kinetics Games. Playstation PS3 Eye enabled games can also be called KINETICS games. Playstation MOVE system has some exciting KINETICS games.

KINETICS GAMES are games you control with the motion of your body instead of using joysticks or keyboards/keypads. There are quite a few KINETICS Games out there, most are for Wii and Playstation Eye/Eyetoy/MOVE but now new Microsoft KINECTS enabled games are coming out.

So “KINECTS Games” are a type of Kinetics games for the Microsoft XBOX 360.

What’s your favorite Kinetics Game on the Xbox 360, the Playstation, or the Nintendo Wii?
(there’s many out there from Pilates sport exercise games to fighting games to stretching and yoga games and do you think you can dance games…)

The arrival of the Kinect has spurred the explosion of related websites coinciding with its November 4th release. The Kinect is the final product of what we had come to know as the Natal Project from Microsoft.
Here are some Kinect websites to demonstrate this point:

Tennis Games
TENNIS KINECT
Fight Games
Fight Kinect
Kinect Fight
Kinect Fight Game
Kinect Fight Games
Exercise Games
kinect exercise game
kinect exercise games
Game Reviews
Kinect Game Review
Kinect Games Reviewed
Kinect Games Reviews
Kinect Enabled Games
Kinectic Game
Kinectic Games
Kinects Game
Kinects Games
Best Games
The Best Kinect Game
The Best Kinect Games
Sport Game
Kinect Sport Game
Kinetic Games
Kinetics Game
Kinetics Games

The new Microsoft KINECT is a revolutionary gaming controller even though it builds upon the advances made by the Nintendo Wii, Playstation EyeToy, PS3 Eye, and recent PlayStation Move.

KINECT Sensor Specs:

The KINECT technology comes mainly from an Israeli Defense firm called 3DV Systems which for some time had made Z-depth cameras capable of capturing information for the depth or distance of each pixel in an image from the camera sensor. Later PrimeSense company was involved and most recently it seems Microsoft has acquired Canesta perhaps to avoid any patent infringement problems over the Kinect. The Kinect sports a regular RGB camera along with two 3D-Depth sensors and mechanized tilt along with a multi-array microphone useful for audio localization which could be used to orient the cameras using the tilt motor.

The Microsoft KINECT for Xbox has finally Arrived!

The applications for this are limitless, the XBOX KINECT gaming system is no longer just for games! Think science, education, and sports, exercise….

Do you enjoy Star Trek or Star Wars? Imagine immersing yourself in the role of a Jedi and swinging away with your lightsabre at Darth Vader..