Monday, August 17, 2015

Kinect used in gamified therapy to ward off Alzheimer's disease

Since the initial effort to bundle a Kinect with every Xbox One, the role of Kinect has lessened to being relegated as an optional add-on for the Xbox One. But that hasn’t stopped developers from coming up with new innovative and impactful uses for the Kinect, especially since Microsoft made the latest SDK available for free.

Earlier in June, WinBeta reported how Kinect can help patients recover faster at home through interactive coaching. Now the German healthcare startup RetroBrain R&D has released Memore to help the elderly ward off dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Memore is described as a suite of games “to help improve the quality of life and cognitive function of elderly people who have or are at risk of developing dementia.” RetroBrain R&D’s approach to Memore was to translate,

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