15.06.10
Fifteen games will be available for the gadget at launch, including a sports game, personal training title, an animal-training game called Kinectimals , dance instruction and racing titles that let players drive cars with invisible steering wheels.
Mr McLean said the new motion-sensitive games would open the market to new gamers who were reluctant to pick up a controller and press buttons.
"Kinect really does explode the market and takes away the main restriction to gaming for beginners by removing the controller," he said.
Kinect will also let Xbox 360 users move through menus with hand gestures and control move playback with their voice. Playback commands include "Xbox play" and "Xbox pause".
But Microsoft's innovation will compete with Sony's PlayStation Move motion sensor, to be showcased at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles later this week, and Nintendo's Wii controls that started the energetic gaming trend.
Swinburne University media and communications lecturer Dr Mark Finn said Microsoft's Kinect, previously known as Project Natal, was interesting for its lack of a controller, but both Microsoft and Sony would simply be building on what Nintendo had created with the Wii console.
Source: NEWS.com.au (blog)