Inside Xbox

In this video, Clint and Dan answer your questions about Jelly Bean—The Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair. They cover a number of topics, including how they decided on the current control scheme, how much calibration was required, and how much code they wrote on top of the SDK.

Ralf Herbrich is a Director of Fuse Labs U.K. and one of the developers who helped build the Xbox Live Arcade game, "The Path of Go." The game was created using F# and to our knowledge is the only Xbox game ever written in the language.

Ralf Herbrich is the man behind the TrueSkill ranking system used in Halo and elsewhere.  He is also the director of Fuse Labs in the UK and stops by our studio to talk about how TrueSkill was invented and where it's going in the future. 

Okay, so you want to get a sneak peek at the Microsoft campus, an inside look into Xbox, and get your hands on a new game. Well, becoming a Microsoft playtester is one way to do that. I stopped by the Xbox Playtesting facility a few weeks ago to find out exactly how becoming a Microsoft…

Microsoft Campus Tours is a new series that takes you into some of the most intriguing buildings and places on Microsoft's main campus.  We start our tour at the infamous Xbox building where we team up with Larry Hryb (Major Nelson).  Larry takes us through the Xbox teams work…

Raghu Murthi and Albert Panello talk about some of the technology behind the Kinect, including the below points: Three major subsystems in the sensor (Optical, Audio, Motor) Optical consists of depth projector and sensor RGB Camera Depth Sensor Motor Subsystem Audio Subsystem

In Part One of The Winter Xbox Games Major Nelson challenged me to a round of snowboarding in celebration of the Winter Olympics and well he lost miserably so it's double of nothing.  Don't forget to check out all of our Inside Xbox content on both Channel 9 and Xbox Live and all of…