Bacalaureat 2008

As one of the most promising platforms to have come forth at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was initially greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming industry (which is at this moment worth many multiples of billions more annually). Nowadays the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s equally exceptional Playstation, but just recently the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers once and for all, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen action. The highly sophisticated motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!