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Kinect for Xbox 360

June 2011

WHAT IS KINECT?
Kinect for Xbox 360 brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways, no controller required. While everyone else puts more gadgets and gizmos into your hands, Kinect removes the last barrier between you and the experiences you love and it will work with every Xbox 360 console.1

Simply step in front of the sensor and Kinect recognizes you and responds to your gestures. See a ball? Kick it. Want to watch a movie? Say "Xbox, play." Want to join a friend? Whether they are across the room, across the street or across the globe, connecting in a whole new way is as easy as a wave of your hand.

CONTROLLER-FREE FUN. Kinect is easy to use and instantly fun for everyone. No matter what your age or where you're from, you already know how to use Kinect. With Kinect, friends and family get off the couch to dance, dodge, leap and kick using the whole body and voice to play – no controller required.

Entertainment. Kinect for Xbox 360 works with Xbox LIVE to transform your living room into a sports stadium and it allows you to navigate your favorite movies, music and live sports with the wave of your hand or the sound of your voice.2
· Voice search. Finding the right entertainment is easy when you are the controller. Coming Holiday 2011, you say it, and Xbox finds it immediately, regardless of where your favorite entertainment resides across Xbox LIVE. Through the simplicity of Kinect and the intelligence of Bing on Xbox, you'll have the ability to find entertainment content on your Xbox 360 system including games, movies, TV shows, sports and music.

· Video Kinect. Share a smile and a wave with faraway friends and family members as you come together from living rooms around the world with Video Kinect, no headset required.4
· Sports. ESPN on Xbox LIVE takes sports to the next level by combining the leader in sports with the power of Xbox LIVE. The magic of Kinect gets you right in the action and brings the stadium experience into your living room.5
· Movies, TV and music. With Hulu Plus, Netflix, Zune video and music as well as Last.fm you can instantly stream your favorite music and videos, and with Kinect for Xbox 360, your voice becomes the remote control. Can't find the remote? Easily play, pause, rewind and fast forward the movie, TV show or music you are enjoying with voice or gesture commands.
· Social. The one-of-a-kind Kinect Hub puts all your favorite controller-free experiences in one place. Kinect recognizes you, so you can easily sign in to your profile by stepping in front of the sensor. Access and browse your entertainment with just the wave of your hand. No gadgets or gizmos. Just you.
· Games. Kinect gives you the freedom to play the way you want. Jump, duck, spin. It's made for you and is designed to get everyone off the couch and cheering together. New games this year include sequals to hit titles like "Kinect Sports: Season Two" and "Dance Central 2" as well as "Kinect: Disneyland Adventures," "Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster," "Kinect Star Wars" and "Fable: The Journey."

Kinect offers a large portfolio of games with something for everyone. Additionally, blockbuster franchises just got better with Kinect. Ubisoft announced at E3 2011 that all "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" and "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell" titles will be Kinect enhanced, starting with "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier" this year. Additionally, the beloved "Mass Effect" franchise will return with Kinect functionality with "Mass Effect 3" in 2012.
· Kinect Fun Labs: Kinect Fun Labs brings exciting innovation to Kinect for Xbox 360 owners and offers more extraordinary ways to have fun. Create magical moments with never-before-seen Kinect technology, including player capture, object scanning and finger tracking. Choose from a variety of Gadgets in Kinect Fun Labs — turn yourself into a bobblehead, bring your favorite stuffed animal to life or create art with your fingertips.

MAGIC OF KINECT TECHNOLOGY . Awarded with the record for "fastest selling consumer electronics device," by the Guiness World Reocrds and deemed a "breakthrough innovation" by Popular Mechanics, the "best of what's new" by Popular Science and awarded with the National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Award, Kinect for Xbox 360 demonstrates a new era of entertainment. It uses a sensor to track your body movement and recognize your face. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak, you and your friends will be able to jump instantly into any Kinect experience. Here's a quick look at how we do it:
· Kinect sensor. Kinect combines an RGB camera, depth sensor and multiarray microphone running proprietary software that brings Kinect experiences to every Xbox 360 console.1 The Kinect sensor tracks full-body movement and individual voices, turning you into the controller for social entertainment available only on Xbox 360.
· RGB camera. Kinect has a video camera that delivers the three basic color components. As part of the Kinect sensor, the RGB camera helps enable facial recognition and more.
· Depth sensor. An infrared projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor allows Kinect to see the room in 3-D (as opposed to inferring the room from a 2-D image) under any lighting conditions.
· Multiarray microphone. Kinect has a microphone that will be able to locate voices by sound and extract ambient noise. The multiarray microphone will enable headset-free Xbox LIVE party chat and more.
· Microsoft software. A proprietary software layer makes the magic of Kinect possible. This layer differentiates Kinect from any other technology on the market through its ability to enable human body recognition and extract other visual noise.

1 190 MB of storage required.
2 Kinet works with select Xbox LIVE features and content.
3 Requires Xbox LIVE Gold membership and HBO Go subscription (sold separately).
4Requires Xbox LIVE Gold Membership.
5ESPN on Xbox LIVE, providing great content from ESPN3.com and ESPN.com, is only available to Xbox LIVE Gold members. For access to ESPN3.com content, Xbox LIVE Gold members must have an ESPN3 affiliated broadband provider and may have affiliate specific access requirements. See ESPN3.com for details and providers.