31.05.2012 - 15:09 [ Innovation News Daily ]

Video Game Tech Helps Coordinate Satellite Docking

The same technology that detects your dorky „Dance Central 2“ moves on your Xbox may soon help small satellites coordinate docking in space. A company is building 12-inch (30 centimeters) satellites that use Microsoft‘s Kinect sensors to scan the area around them, calculate what‘s happening in three dimensions and dock to one another.