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2010-2019 The 2010s

Kinect tracks players without anything held in hand

Microsoft's depth-sensing camera for the Xbox 360 read body movement and spoken commands with nothing held or worn. It sold at record speed, then struggled to find games that justified the hardware.

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Home consoles
Period
The 2010s

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Real-time body tracking had escaped the laboratory and become a mass-produced consumer part, years before such sensors were ordinary. The launch also delivered a blunt lesson about hardware without software: a remarkable sensor cannot carry a platform if designers never work out what to build with it.

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