1. PROJECT NATAL: KINECT
(Xbox 360)
BY:KANISHKA BOSE
C. S. E DEPT.

3. ROAD MAP
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Introduction
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History
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What is gesture recognition?
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Technology behind Project Natal.
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Components
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Future application
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Conclusion

4. INTRODUCTION
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Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply Kinect
was originally known by the code name
PROJECT NATAL.
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It is a “controller-free gaming and
entertainment experience” by Microsoft.
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Aimed at broadening the Xbox 360‟s
audience beyond its typical gamer base.

6. HISTORY

Kinect was first announced on June 1,2009 at
E3 2009 under the code name “Project Natal”.

“Project Natal” was named after the Brazilian
city of Natal as a tribute to the country by
Microsoft director Alex Kipman,who incubated
the project,and is from Brazil.

The name Natal was also chosen because the
word
„Natal‟
means
“of
or
relating
birth”,reflecting Microsoft‟s view of the project
as “The birth of next generation of home
entertainment”.

7. What Is Gesture Recognition?
It is a complex Artificial Intelligence Problem.
Its purpose is to:
Recognize a person.
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Obtain information.
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Process the information
conveyed through the gestures of
a person like hand and leg
movements, flapping gait etc..

8. TECHNOLOGY
 It
has been programmed to investigate
photographs,look for a basic human
form and identify it.
 Microsoft
relies on an advancing field of
AI called Machine Learning.
 This
saves programmers the nearly
impossible task of coding rules that
describes all of the millions of possible
movements of a body can make.

9. NATAL LEARNING BRAIN

10. 3-D GESTURE RECOGNITION

11. KINECT: What a toy ?

12. COMPONENTS
It consists of 4 components:1)
2)
3)
4)
RGB camera.
IR depth sensor.
Multi-Array
Microphones.
Motorized pivot.

13. The “NATAL” Process.

14. The “NATAL” Experience.

15. EXPERIENCE IT

16. Conclusion..
The experience that Kinect will bring in the
future are:-
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It will revolutionize the future of gaming and
entertainment industry.
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It is a new way of interacting with
computers and machines.

KINECT is the application of future made
into reality today by Microsoft.

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18. THANK YOU…