MotionSwinger Kinect Virtual Sex Game is a Hoax

February 6, 2011

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We prove there's only hoax behind the hype…

There’s been a bit of buzz surrounding MotionSwinger.com, a website that ostensibly exists to promote a 3D sex world game for the Microsoft Kinect. People are wondering if it is real, given that Microsoft has an inclination to can adult content (as a family company), and the website itself seems a little too ironic to be taken seriously.

We looked in to the finer details of the MotionSwinger website and found the following:

The images on the main–and only–page are lifted from Second Life. All but one of them appear on the first page of Google’s image results for “second life sex”.

The pre-order button in the sidebar is simply a Facebook “like” link. There is no way to purchase the game.

All references to Microsoft's Kinect have been blacked out or replaced with the word “beep!” For example, included in the features list: “Voice recognition: Moan into the “beep!” microphone to use Power-Ups!”

An image that was originally taken from Microsoft's Kinectimals game is now just a black space.

Given the above, and the general tone of the website's content, it seems clear that the whole thing is a joke, and that the person behind MotionSwinger (this guy, according to the registrant details for the MotionSwinger.com domain) was never attempting to disguise that.

Images: MotionSwinger.com

Meg White

Meg White is an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), machine learning engineer, and honors-year electrical engineering student. She is co-founder and CEO of VAUX, a deep-tech company based in Brisbane, Australia, that specializes in AI and signal processing.

The company was founded in July 2018. In 2019, VAUX took part in the Techstars Music accelerator in Los Angeles and raised money from investors in the US. Techstars is the global platform for investment and innovation that connects entrepreneurs, investors, and corporations.

Meg also holds the Head Girl role in the research firm, Crone Labs. The company offers research and development in the intersecting fields of machine learning and security. In 2017, Meg was selected to be part of Startup Catalyst's 2017 youth mission cohort where tech-savvy, high-achieving Australians embarked on a fully-sponsored two-week mission to Silicon Valley to become Australia’s next batch of globally successful tech entrepreneurs.

Preceding her achievements in the tech industry, Meg was also a journalist, editor, and online producer. She was principal creative, digital culture, and social media advisor on the marketing team of Nine Entertainment Co. from May 2011 to June 2012.

She has also worked with various publications such as Dovetail Magazine, cudo, Gateway Lounge, and Australian Penthouse, an international men's magazine focused on glamour photography and lifestyle.

Meg completed her education in Journalism, PR, and Popular Music at Griffith University in 2009 and earned her degree with honors as a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, and Robotics from the Queensland University of Technology in 2020.

Her interests also include “cyber-physical systems” and she is keen to learn more about making and breaking them. Meg loves deep learning and looks forward to working at the intersection of AI and security for a long time to come.

On her Twitter account, Meg describes herself as having strong feelings for signal analysis, control theory, logic design, hacking, deep learning, and eating the rich. Currently, Meg is focused on learning everything she can about reverse engineering, source code analysis, exploit development, embedded devices, and all the ideas in between.