Control Netflix Movies Using Gestures or Voice With Kinect

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Charlie White
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Control Netflix Movies Using Gestures or Voice With Kinect
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After downloading a software update from the Xbox 360 Video Marketplace, Kinect will react to your gestures and voice when you’re using Netflix.

That means you can play, fast-forward, rewind and pause movies and TV shows by controlling that magical hand on the bottom left of your screen with your own movements. Or you can just say "Xbox, Play," for example, and your movie starts.

There's a catch, according to Xbox 360 Digest. Although all the Netflix movies are controllable using Microsoft Kinect, getting to them from elsewhere in the Xbox 360 interface will still require an Xbox 360 controller or remote unless you're in a "special recommendations" section, where you can navigate between personally recommended movies and TV shows with the Kinect controller or your voice.

So what is the point of this? Well, if you can't find your remote or Xbox 360 controller, now, yelling at the TV will actually help. Your friends and colleagues might also be impressed by your wizardry, controlling Netflix movies with various gestures, or with your singularly commanding voice.

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