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Microsoft Offering Stand-alone Kinect October 7 For $149.99

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The motion-sensing Xbox One peripheral is going solo in the fall.

When Microsoft unhitched Kinect from the Xbox One as a desperate $399 price-cutting solution to catch up with the PlayStation 4 sales-wise (spoilers: it didn’t help), the company briefly mentioned in passing that the motion sensing camera would be available separately later in the year.

As we’ve come to learn today, that will happen on October 7, when Microsoft will make the Kinect sensor available at United States retailers for the price of $149.99 USD.

That might look absurdly pricy for a peripheral that hasn’t really shown its usefulness outside UI navigation or voice commands, but honestly if Kinect is what you want, I’d recommend getting the Xbox One (with Kinect) bundle that can still be found for $499, $50 dollars less than the buying both individually.

Of course, the faultiness in my recommendation is if you already have an Xbox One to begin with. Then yeah, for existing Xbox One console owners, it is a bummer of a price.

Although, stand-alone Kinect buyers do receiver a free download code for Dance Central Spotlight, the next dance game from former Rock Band developers Harmonix, which is exclusive to the Xbox One and includes a 10-track soundtrack of popular music artists to bust a groove with.

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Alleged Xbox 720 document leak resurfaces, stirs rumors of Kinect 2, native 3D, AR glasses

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Leaked Xbox 720 document resurfaces, stirs up rumors of Kinect 2, native 3D, augmented reality glasses

A document passing itself off as an internal Microsoft presentation about the future of Xbox has surfaced, and is stirring internet chatter with its possible hints at the future of the console. Despite turning up online over a month ago and potentially dating back to 2010, a few things mentioned that have since come to fruition -- like SmartGlass -- are earning it more attention. The proposed developments include cloud-based entertainment, native 3D, augmented reality "Fortaleza Glasses," scalable hardware -- all by 2015. If that's too long to wait, however, the time line also indicates we'd be seeing the next generation hardware in 2013 for $299 (more precise and four-player ready Kinect 2 included). The Xbox 720 package described includes such pie-in-the-sky bullet points as Blu-ray and whole-home DVR features, all from a low-power always-on box built on a "Yukon" ARM hardware platform.

Of course, even if this is legit and not just some business student's exercise, all the talk of value propositions, OEM licensing and developer profitability are proposals that could have changed. Need more reasons to be skeptical? Digital Foundry points out the extremely optimistic wattages listed and previous appearances of the illustrations included. Ponder over the full 56-page document for yourself -- taking into account the bored minds on the internet that are capable of cranking out this kind of stuff, like that infamous Nintendo Revolution video -- after the break.

Update: The document has been pulled from Scribd, apparently at the request of a Covington & Burling, LLP.

[Thanks, Leonard]

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Kudo Tsunoda: ‘Waiting for the next big thing isn’t about waiting for the Kinect 2’

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Kudo Tsunoda: 'Waiting for the next big thing isn't about waiting for the Kinect 2'Last summer, try as we might, we couldn't get too much out of Microsoft's creative director for Kinect Games, Kudo Tsunoda, about what's next from the interactive peripheral. More recently, in an interview with Venture Beat, Tsunoda was a little more verbose about what he thinks the next big thing in Kinect is -- and it isn't a Kinect 2. The good news is, he believes that no new hardware will be required, and the innovations will likely come from developers, as they better understand and utilize the capabilities. A combination of voice, tone and facial recognition along with motion detection will likely be the tools that push the experience into the next era -- such as allowing users to participate in a game's story like an actor. Hit the source if you want to read the full interview, but you can be sure we'll be at E3 again this year to beat him, and others, with the question stick once more.

Kudo Tsunoda: 'Waiting for the next big thing isn't about waiting for the Kinect 2' originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 May 2012 10:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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