CES 2011 Brings Us The First Of The Kinect Clones For PC

Computer hardware manufacturer ASUS has teamed up with the makers of Kinect‘s camera technology, PrimeSense, to bring controller-free, gesture-based gaming to your PC this year, a product it will show off at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); It is, essentially, the Xbox 360’s Kinect controller, but with a less graceful name: the WAVI Xtion. The system pairs PrimeSense’s 3D motion capture camera technology (the Xtion) with a transmitter/receiver yono all app (the Wireless Audio & Video Interaction system, or WAVI) to get the gesture-based job done. ASUS hopes the “next generation user interface device developed by ASUS [will] extend PC usage to the living room,” according to its official press release The WAVI Xtion’s official announcement touts the ability yono all app to interact with multimedia, social networks and “exciting” gesture-based games. The WAVI Xtion is scheduled to be released in the second quarter of 2011, with a worldwide release expected “in phases.” Kotaku will be on hand and ready to gesture at this years CES, so keep w69 slot an eye peeled for hands-off WAVI Xtion impressions. Your best guesses about how one pronounces “Xtion” is welcome in the comments.