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Archive Home > 2010 > October > 26 > Microsoft hopes it has a game changer

Microsoft hopes it has a game changer

Motion-sensing Kinect may move beyond gaming

By Ashlee Vance / The Bulletin
October 26, 2010

REDMOND, Wash. — Tim Nichols measures fun.

A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watching people play the company’s Xbox systems. He looks for smiles, listens for ecstatic squawks and logs triumphant....

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