Inside The Kinect 2.0

voice commands can be a legitimate use a short cut to operating a clunky menu, it can also be used to identify people and where they are sitting to determine where split screens should be but yeah anything can be considered a gimmick. How it rumble not a gimmick? it can be used as a way to telling the player when something is near woop de do gimmick. The word gimmick is subjective so anything can be a gimmick graphics don't really correlate to great games gimmick.
 
Ok so dimly lit room while playing game or watching movie, why would you want to have night vision see you? I assume for a game it'd use the sensor to find all the points of reference and not the "camera" feature, or is this for one of those "like to be watched" scenarios where you want people to watch you while you're watching a movie or playing a game? (Or want to skype in the dark and still show your naughty bits :D)


Also a bit of an error that bugged me, "active IR" does not remove ambient light, it's an IR sensor that has a very small bandwidth that's sensitive to whatever the cheapest IR LEDs they could pack into the kinetic are to illuminate the room in IR light, your flashlight isn't going to be making IR light so it won't see it regardless. Now if you had an old incandescent lamp you'll probably be able to see that, but again it depends what the bandwidth sensitivity is on the IR sensor.
 
Trimlock said:
Depends on what you find as a gimmick, according to most Kinect haters on this forum, everything it can do is a gimmick. So to a lot of people here they see it as a failure already.
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A lot of Wii games were just taking advantage of the motion controller, and it was clunky and a POS game otherwise. The only selling point was the motion control. Or, it didn't add anything to the experience and made it worse. That's gimmicky.

Kinect has a few, but they also had a lot of great ones. But, if you want to see some good games but probably not in your genre - kids games. Toddlers LOVE jumping around and dancing with Sesame Street characters or Rabbids (one of my favorite games, BTW) or just other active games. Adults like the fitness games for various things. But, they aren't really the top genres that get the motion treatment, nor would they be too suitable. CoD on the Wii SUCKED balls because you used the Wiimote as the gun and aimed that way. It didn't work well. So, FPS's aren't that great - yet. If someone were to do a better implementation, maybe. Just haven't seen it yet.

As for the IR camera - I like it. I have a projector, so the room needs to be dark in the first place. Second, the camera always sees a bright ass light shining towards it. It distorts the image. So, I have a front light now to use when I use the Kinect so it can see me and is less distorted. The IR camera should help with that, I hope.
 
Inside The Kinect 2.0: The NSA ;)

That aside, I'm sure as this kind of technology advances, we'll see some interesting uses in the future. For now, I just don't feel it's quite "there" yet; don't get me wrong, it's still pretty impressive but nothing mindblowing.
 
Term-X said:
Inside The Kinect 2.0: The NSA ;)

That aside, I'm sure as this kind of technology advances, we'll see some interesting uses in the future. For now, I just don't feel it's quite "there" yet; don't get me wrong, it's still pretty impressive but nothing mindblowing.
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Microsoft is the NSA :D
 
if the new consoles came with a consumer level Occulus Rift, i would pre order right now.
the rift is more exciting to me than kenect, and im cannot wait to buy one for my pc.
 
Why is connect sensor creating a mirror image, I noticed the exit signs spelt backwards. So the connect sensor is seeing stuff as if it was looked thru a mirror. Why is that?
 
I love how the haters out there stalk the forums, then troll any Xbone thread they see. I love reading all the ridiculous things people come up with because they know nothing about it. The xbox fitness looks like it may rival your personal fitness trainer, unless your trainer is a hottie that gives you more than your xbox ever will. There are many uses for the Kinect 2, haters aren't looking for reason to like it. I just have to post this because if the xbox one is so shitty, why even waste your time writing a biased view of something you've never used. Not everything has to be game related. As mentioned the fitness program isn't really a game at all. There are people who will buy an xbox one just to hack it and find other uses for it, that is how useful it is. The Kinect 2 for the value of $100 you are paying for it, is about 100x more useful if not more than the Eye Toy valued at $50.
 
xX326Xx said:
There are many uses for the Kinect 2, haters aren't looking for reason to like it.
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Ok. Although I can see many great uses for it and may eventually buy a Kinect 2 game, let me ask this: For a FPS fan, does it give a gaming advantage? Not from voice controls, as I have a mic headset to talk with my team. From a RPG standpoint, does it have an advantage? Other than the voice activated screams? Not much.

From a fitness, dance, active standpoint - it offers a lot. For games or activities that can use the physical input, it does offer a whole lot. Controlling the device with your voice is cool. So, there is some advantage. Just not for those people that would never buy a fitness or dance or whatever game.

If Kinect 2 can bring some quality (key word there) improvements to popular gaming genres, it could be very popular. But, the first Kinect was cool but it didn't bring much to most games. It sits there gathering dust. For the other, somewhat niche games, it really kicks some ass.

Depends on which kind of gamer you are. From there, you can determine the value of the device. For some, it'd sit there and gather dust. For others, it'd be in use constantly. You can't say trolls are hating it when they are in the first group. They just can't see the value with it in the way they play games.
 
I see kinect active IR being used to film lots of revenge porn on the couch.
 
Ur_Mom said:
A lot of Wii games were just taking advantage of the motion controller, and it was clunky and a POS game otherwise. The only selling point was the motion control. Or, it didn't add anything to the experience and made it worse. That's gimmicky.

Kinect has a few, but they also had a lot of great ones. But, if you want to see some good games but probably not in your genre - kids games. Toddlers LOVE jumping around and dancing with Sesame Street characters or Rabbids (one of my favorite games, BTW) or just other active games. Adults like the fitness games for various things. But, they aren't really the top genres that get the motion treatment, nor would they be too suitable. CoD on the Wii SUCKED balls because you used the Wiimote as the gun and aimed that way. It didn't work well. So, FPS's aren't that great - yet. If someone were to do a better implementation, maybe. Just haven't seen it yet.

As for the IR camera - I like it. I have a projector, so the room needs to be dark in the first place. Second, the camera always sees a bright ass light shining towards it. It distorts the image. So, I have a front light now to use when I use the Kinect so it can see me and is less distorted. The IR camera should help with that, I hope.
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haha I so agree with you, the fact that you could only do motion control in 99% of the games on the Wii, or buy a different controller pad for the ones that didn't! Which is why I like the idea of the Kinect. Its integrated and you aren't forced to use all its capabilities, even though it does have quite a bit.

I like how its supposedly being used in BF4, I haven't played BF in a while but I may try this out, just unsure if I'm going to get it on the PC or console.
 
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