The new and improved peripheral can detect finger movements from three meters away

Jul 24, 2013 08:00 GMT  ·  By

The new and improved Kinect sensor for the Xbox One is about 10 times more powerful than the current peripheral for the Xbox 360, as it can track all sorts of precise gestures, while scanning the room at all times to register any changes.

The Xbox One will be bundled with its new Kinect when it's launched this year, and Microsoft is trying to show off just how powerful the new sensor is and how it will make gaming much easier and better.

During the Xbox One Comic-Con panel last weekend, via Xbox Wire, Rare's New Technology Development Lead, Nick Burton, revealed that the new Kinect is ten times more powerful than its predecessor and that it can register a fingertip movement from more than three meters away.

This allows games to award players if they perform more nuanced movements, not just fast and loose ones that sometimes trigger the expected result while at other times they produce nothing.