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'Musical Feet' Hits Kinect Fun Labs -- Keyboard Anywhere Realized

You may remember one of the earliest Kinect hacks to get Kinect fans, and tech enthusiasts in general, excited -- Keyboard Anywhere. You may also remember when Kinect Fun Labs launched that this was then part of a Microsoft election to vote for a gadget to become part of the Fun Labs. Well, now it is.

Musical Feet sees the original concept fleshed out into a fully fledged gadget by Smoking Gun Interactive who have worked on some earlier Fun Labs applications. You and your friends can play a virtual piano projected onto the floor, controlling the sound the piano makes and uploading your works of art to KinectShare.com.

You can download the gadget via Kinect Fun Labs now for 240 Microsoft points. See the original concept video that got everybody excited below!



Air Band Hitting Kinect Fun Labs Next Week!

Air Band, the next gadget to hit Kinect Fun Labs, will be available from August 22nd.

As we previously speculated, Air Band is the new name for Music In Motion from Relentless Software, allowing users to play a variety of virtual instruments and genres by air-playing instruments overlayed onto the player on screen.
Kinect Fun Labs: Microsoft captured the world’s imagination at E3 2011 with the announcement of Kinect Fun Labs, a dedicated hub showcasing the latest Kinect innovations. The latest Gadget, “Air Band,” introduces new Augmented Reality technology to Kinect and places you on stage as the star of your living room with a guitar, drums or keyboard. “Air Band” will be unveiled at gamescom and available in Kinect Fun Labs on 22nd August, 2011.
We expect that there will be new footage and information about the game over the coming days. In the mean time, here's some previously released footage.




Upcoming Kinect Fun Labs Gadget "Music In Motion" lets you Form a Virtual Band

As we have previously reported Relentless Software, developers of hit Playstation quiz franchise Buzz!, are working on a Kinect Fun Labs gadget called "Music in Motion".

Now we know that the gadget allows players to play virtual instruments superimposed onto them via Kinect. The software will let you play a range of instruments including drums, keyboard and guitar across 5 different genres including Disco and Country. There are no levels or scores, and no hand holding tutorials and difficulty levels -- just have a jam, and explore the different instruments.

Still no word on a date of release yet, but we'll let you know as soon as we know!

Source: Destructoid

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