The Next Web

At a demo in Shoreditch, London, earlier today, The Next Web was put through its paces ahead of the official launch this coming Friday, with the new Xbox 360 ‘game’ featuring customized fitness regimes using the motion-sensing miracle that is Kinect. After watching one of the instructors using Nike Kinect, it was our turn. First up, you have to be ‘assessed’ for your basic level of fitness – a few squats and lunges were enough to tell the system how strong I was on each side, with Kinect detecting any shakes or wobbles along the way. It then constructs a programme for you accordingly, involving burpees, lunges and a bunch of other exercises (probably ending in ‘_es’) that I’d never heard of before. (via Nike Kinect Takes the Gym to Your Livingroom)