But Microsoft's internet-TV system does do one thing other don't -- full-body motion control.
Unlike the first generation wearable technologies like counting users steps and estimating calories, Xsens' technology enables accurate, real-time tracking of body motion.
ENGADGET: Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
Xsens has supplied 3D body motion tracking technology for Hollywood productions such as Ted, John Carter, X-Men, The Avengers and many more.
ENGADGET: Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
Wearable 3D body motion tracking is enabling the next wave of innovation in cloud-connected wearable sports, fitness, healthcare and gaming sensor accessories for smartphones.
ENGADGET: Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
Real-time 3D body motion data enables the development of apps that can recognize and classify complex motions such as sports techniques by digitizing your exact movements for immediate feedback and live sharing.
ENGADGET: Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
As part of a broader strategy, Xsens now offers IP originally developed for professional (B2B) applications of 3D body motion tracking using wearable motion trackers for mass market application in the consumer electronics industry.
ENGADGET: Xsens teases wearable 3D body sensors that won't cost, will track an arm and a leg (video)
Its MxR Lab has just launched a showcase of creations and modifications that DIY enthusiasts can build, including open source code for both the devices and integrating full-body motion control through Kinect for Windows or OpenNI.
He used to want to fly out of self-awareness, day and night, a body in raw motion.
Choosing a model that comes with any of the latest parking aids can help drivers with diminished upper body range of motion.
The product, Microsoft says, can read your body and render your motion with less time lag than the Wii, which requires a controller.
Put your hand behind your back, and Natal's probability logic locates your avatar's arm the same way, based on the motion of your body.
For example, a device called the nPower PEG, introduced last year, can be stuck in a backpack or briefcase where it generates emergency power from the motion of the body.
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It certainly seemed to fit with previous work which had detected a wobble in the star's motion caused by a body the size of Jupiter circling in a very close orbit every 3.5 days.
Jones has performed as a monster so many times that Spectral Motion keeps a full-body cast of him on hand.
This would be backed up by some programming, to give the droids a basic understanding of rigid body mechanics, and how to construct motion plans.
Members of the Protestant Orange Order's ruling body have voted overwhelmingly to defeat a motion calling on it to lift its ban on talking directly to the Northern Ireland Parades Commission.
He and his disciples, who are sprinkled throughout the baseball-talent hotbeds in the American South and West, stress a free and athletic-style throwing motion that harnesses the power of the entire body, but especially the legs and core muscles.
Then they analyze the data to try to see if all the parts of the body are synchronizing, with each of the six separate actions of the motion flowing methodically from one into the next.
"Teaching is creating a mechanical motion, within the framework of who they are and what their body can do, " Harmon told a group of club pros recently.
More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a Commons motion calling the proposed powers of the new Infrastructure Planning Commission - an independent body which would take decisions on major infrastructure - "inordinate and unprecedented".
Second Sight Medical Products developed the world's first working bionic eye, which could soon be available in the US, and fashion company Machina produced the world's first jacket to combine a MIDI controller with motion sensors -- essentially, it's a jacket that turns your body into a synthesizer.
The deferred motion invited other north Wales councils to do the same and called upon the watchdog body the Community Health Council (CHC) to use its power to refer the health board's decisions to the Welsh government.
Into this fusion, the fine-detail of the hand and gestural body is about to enter, and it is the developers, and innovative platform makers like Leap Motion, who will take us there.
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