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GDC 2011 – Maximizing Your Play Space

This presentation explains how to take advantage of your player’s available space in single player and multiplayer scenarios, how to tilt the sensor effectively, and how to handle things gracefully when all else fails.

GDC 2011 – Develop Blazingly Fast Games with Visual Studio 2010

This presentation focuses on several exciting Visual Studio 2010 features that help game developers rapidly generate high quality optimized code.

GDC 2011 – Xbox LIVE Best Practices for Windows Phone 7

This presentation discusses the best practices for implementing Xbox LIVE features on Windows Phone 7.

GDC 2011 – Going Beyond 1:1 Animation on Kinect to Deliver a Hero Experience

This presentation discusses various techniques of effectively mapping the player’s skeleton with an in-game character.

GDC 2011 – Get to Know Me: Kinect Identity

This presentation discusses the user identification capabilities of Kinect.

GDC 2011 – Adding Depth to Your Kinect Title

This presentation covers depth map analysis in detail, including hand refinement, feature detection, along with efficient depth processing.

GDC 2011 – “Xbox, Listen”: Driving Gameplay with Kinect Audio Input and Speech Recognition

This presentation discusses the audio input and speech recognition capabilities that are built into the Kinect hardware and software pipelines.

GDC 2011 – Xbox Studio Deep Dive: Designing, Debugging, and Testing Your Kinect Title

This presentation describes how to leverage Xbox Studio in debugging, designing, and testing your Kinect title.

GDC 2011 – Windows Game Development Update

This presentation provides the latest update around the game development ecosystem for Windows.

Microsoft Malware Protection Center Threat Report – Qakbot

SharePoint 2010 Governance and Life Cycle Management

Microsoft IT addresses Microsoft SharePoint data overload challenges through a multipronged approach and provides best practices. Developing and implementing data management policies that address the full data life cycle, from site provisioning to data…

Kinect Sports Calorie Challenge Trailer

Calorie Challenge DLC trailer for Rare’s Kinect Sports.

Utility Spotlight: Juggle Those Virtual Desktops

May 2011Having multiple virtual desktops running multiple applications and multiple files can get a bit confusing. The aptly-named Desktops app can help.