Microsoft's introducing a new Kinect motion-sensing camera to go alongside its new Xbox One game console.
Additionally, the remote doubles as a motion-sensing game controller for playing games like Angry Birds Space.
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Now, the Sixaxis control is being replaced with DualShock 3 in all its rumbling, motion-sensing glory.
Like Natal, Move makes use of a motion-sensing camera called the PlayStation Eye (successor to EyeToy).
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We have to face other challenges in the future like mobile games and motion-sensing games.
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Unique touches include motion-sensing technology that cause the media keys and slot drive to glow.
This motion-sensing faucet, intended for public restrooms, both washes and dries hands right at the sink.
Microsoft has opened up access to some of the code for its Kinect for Windows motion-sensing device.
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Instead, they will focus on their latest respective motion-sensing add-on systems to the current-generation consoles, Kinect and PlayStation Move.
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Each game can be played using LG's new and improved motion-sensing Magic Remote.
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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the long-awaited pricing of its Kinect system, a motion-sensing add-on system to its Xbox 360 console.
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With the imminent launch of Microsoft Kinect and PlayStation Move, though, these motion-sensing system would seem obvious choices for a dance title.
The Wii's controllers, though they helped introduce motion-sensing technology to many gamers, weren't as well-suited as rivals' for some rapid game play.
You've heard of Kinect, the Microsoft motion-sensing device that enhanced the Xbox.
Microsoft faces similar challenges as competitor Sony, which has also recently announced the launch and pricing of its own motion-sensing add-on PlayStation Move.
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Whereas Nintendo uses motion-sensing controllers for the Wii, and Kinect uses only a camera and no controllers, PlayStation Move uses both camera and controller.
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It's worth pointing out that there's also a voice command button as well as motion-sensing, thus making the most out of Google TV ver.3.
With Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which uses motion-sensing technology, users can zoom and snap a photo with simple hand motions from across the room.
The timing of the increase makes sense for Microsoft because it is about to launch Kinect, its new motion-sensing add-on to the Xbox 360 console.
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Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology.
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Most of the current wearable devices confine themselves to health and fitness uses and contain basic technology, such as a motion-sensing pedometer that may offer less than precise readings.
Additionally, taking self-portraits or group shots are easy thanks to Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which applies motion-sensing technology so that users can control the camera remotely using hand gestures alone.
And its games have become popular among the casual gamers market, a market that companies like Microsoft and Sony are trying to reach with new motion-sensing devices like Kinect and PlayStation Move.
But to Marks, who has been working on motion-sensing for a decade now since he came up with the EyeToy camera in 1999 for the PlayStation 2, this area of technology is nothing new.
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Namely, the console will ship with a new version of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera controller, Kinect, and that the device, "must be plugged in and calibrated for the console to even function, " the piece says.
For a tidy sum and some untidiness, Kinect enables the kind of motion-sensing gameplay that has become the Wii's hallmark without having to strap the controller to various limbs (as with EA Active for Wii).
Dille expects its upcoming add-on to the PS3, its motion-sensing system PlayStation Move that launches in just four days, to capture more market share among hardcore gamers, but more importantly, among the casual gamers out there.
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Furthermore, to help ensure everyone is included in that group shot, the MV900F touts Samsung's ground-breaking Gesture Shot, which uses motion-sensing technology so that users can zoom and snap a photo with simple hand motions from across the room.
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Last September, Microsoft announced the Kinect's availability in China, but the catch was there would be no Xbox 360 to go with the motion-sensing peripheral, meaning only the developers could make the most out of the sensor on a PC.
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"We are excited to enable iPhone4 users to transform their phones into a powerful, motion-sensing peripheral to create poetry in motion for more effective communications and more immersive entertainment experiences, " said Bryan Hoadley, Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and General Manager of Movea, Inc.
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