What is Kinect?

Kinect is an Xbox 360 add on that puts you right in the game. You play games and control your Xbox 360 just by moving or talking. No controller required. Just you.
But Kinect is not just for your games. Kinect enhances your entire entertainment experience. Watch a movie without a remote, find content on your tv or play your favorite music just by asking. And Kinect is so simple everyone can do it.
Kinect is like a super webcam. It sits beneath your TV screen facing you. And when your Xbox 360 is on, it is literally watching and listening to you.
To get Kinect’s attention all you have to do is wave. Kinect’s gesture recognition realizes you are waving and Kinect’s facial recognition goes to work figuring out who you are. It matches you to your profile and signs you into your Xbox 360 profile. Once signed in, you navigate around the Xbox 360 dashboard using your hand like a mouse on the screen.
Using your hands is very natural but using your voice is even easier. With Kinect, if you can see it … just say it. Simply tell your Xbox what you want with commands like “Xbox play Halo” or “Xbox play music”. No more fumbling around for the converter in the dark just say “Xbox pause” With Kinect’s “natural user interface” there are no barriers and no learning curve.
Without a controller, you play Kinect games with your entire body. Kinect’s sensor tracks your skeleton and recognizes 20 different joints per player! Tracking you that closely allows game developers to pick up your most subtle moves and feed them back into the game.
As a player, you focus on your movement rather than which button on a controller to press. Its about where is your right foot right now, what is your left hand doing and where is are you looking This simultaneously makes games easy to learn and more emersive to play.
Kinect is a revolutionary new platform with immense potential. Kinect’s launch is a jumping off point for Microsoft. With Microsoft planning to take the technology n many different directions. It will take game developers some time to figure out how to fully exploit its capabilities. But they will no doubt utilize it in ways even Microsoft didn’t anticipate