Macau is still holding all the aces as the worlds casino capital despite a slowdown in the Chinese economy, analysts said ahead of an international gaming expo in the former Portuguese colony. The three-day Global Gaming Expo Asia is taking place at the Venetian on the Cotai Strip from Tuesday, where two huge casino resorts have opened in the past 12 months and three others are in the pipeline. The semi-autonomous southern Chinese city — the only place in the [...]
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Microsoft researching sound only gesture system
The Kinect has made motion controls a reality for consoles, and we might soon be seeing similar technology make the jump to PCs and laptops. Rather than using a dedicated motion sensor bar, Microsoft Research is developing a technique called SoundWave that would detect motion and implement controls using only the microphone and speakers on a laptop. When a laptop is equipped with the SoundWave software, an ultrasonic tone between 20 and 22KHz is constantly emitted. The microphone then listens [...]
