One of the less obvious problems with the Microsoft’s belated answer to Nintendo’s motion-sensing Wii is that while all of the demonstrations of the Kinect at E3 involved the player standing up, jumping around the room, screaming and wildly gesticulating… well, it doesn’t really look like you can just sit down, balance a beer on [...]

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Some questions have surrounded Microsoft's Kinect since the company offered its first hands-on look at the device during E3 last month -- can it see users while sitting? Several reports from the event had questioned that, curious about the viability of a gaming device that didn't let players be couch potatoes if they felt like it. Microsoft is at last stepping up to clarify, at least somewhat ...

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There's been some confusion concerning Kinect over what you would think would be a very, very easy thing to communicate about a new videogame control method: Whether you can sit down while using it. As it turns out, a Microsoft representative assures you can in fact use Kinect while sitting down, so long as you're using it with a game or experience designed to be played while sitting down ...

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Only in games made "with sitting in mind". Microsoft has insisted that Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect can recognise players who are sitting, despite a recent developer comment to the contrary. "Kinect can be used while sitting when an experience is developed with sitting in mind," Microsoft told Joystiq. Backing up its claim, Microsoft pointed to navigating the Dashboard and using the ...

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Whether or not you own a Nintendo Wii , you’ve probably seen the commercials. Or know someone who owns one, and have experienced the gameplay for yourself. With that in mind, we all know that Nintendo intended for people to get off the couch and actually interact with their games on a whole “new” level. Sure, there’s some commercials out there that show plenty of folks sitting on their couch ...

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Microsoft has clarified that Kinect is very capable of recognizing a user that's sitting, an aspect of the new tech that continues to be a point of confusion. "Kinect can be used while sitting when an experience is developed with sitting in mind," a representative for the company confirmed to Joystiq today. As for previously revealed Kinect applications that are being developed with a seated ...

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