I figured out the key problem with kinect...

It's ahead of it's time, and missing it's key component.

Mind control (read, "using thoughts to control games").

With future advances of mind controler devices, to where movement can be mapped to thoughts, Kinect would be perfect for using your hands to aim/look/etc, where as your mind would be great to have your character move forward or backwards.

but for now, Kinect is just too barebones, and lacks a control mechinism for movement. It would be cool if you were just inside a giant ball, where when you walk, kinect records your movement, but as it stands, it's really only limited by having a stationary camera, and making you move around it.

I dunno. It's just too little, too soon. without devices that can sense our thoughts and map them to controls, there will never be a true "hands-free gaming device" that can do more than watch you exercise, or make you pretend to play with skittles.

.....not sure if serious :?

Biggest problem with Kinect is that it's going to limit WHAT players can do. There are only so many options when reading player movements, that it will never be as good as using buttons. It that reason alone that the Wiimote and Move will be superior to it as far as gaming goes.

Amazing technology regardless, though.

Skittles would hate you.

Well... there has to be steps. And kinect is one.

Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featuredesigner-

Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featuredesigner-

They could quite easily dispel the "rumour" by letting a journalist sit down and use gesture control for either a game or the user interface.

Even ignoring the sitting issue, I really don't see the appeal of using it as a user interface once the novelty wears off.

Do people really think it's more convenient or a better experience to say "XBOX... Pause" in the middle of watching a movie?

Or more convenient to lift your arm, hover it there for a bit while it registers, then slide a slider to fast forward?

[QUOTE="designer-"]Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featurexbox360isgr8t

It has been confirmed forza 3 works only if you stand up. Which doesn't make any sense if kinect has "amazing recognition" like MS implies and lemmings say.

"I asked one of the two members of Forza development studio Turn 10 if I could play their demo sitting down. They said I could not, that it was "optimized for standing."

http://kotaku.com/5565777/xbox-kinect-does-not-play-well-with-couch-potatoes

Biggest problem with Kinect is that it's going to limit WHAT players can do. There are only so many options when reading player movements, that it will never be as good as using buttons. It that reason alone that the Wiimote and Move will be superior to it as far as gaming goes.

Amazing technology regardless, though.

xYamatox

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"][QUOTE="designer-"]Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featureNohtnym

It has been confirmed forza 3 works only if you stand up. Which doesn't make any sense if kinect has "amazing recognition" like MS implies and lemmings say.

"I asked one of the two members of Forza development studio Turn 10 if I could play their demo sitting down. They said I could not, that it was "optimized for standing."

http://kotaku.com/5565777/xbox-kinect-does-not-play-well-with-couch-potatoes

[QUOTE="Nohtnym"]

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"] rumor at bestgenaroll

It has been confirmed forza 3 works only if you stand up. Which doesn't make any sense if kinect has "amazing recognition" like MS implies and lemmings say.

"I asked one of the two members of Forza development studio Turn 10 if I could play their demo sitting down. They said I could not, that it was "optimized for standing."

http://kotaku.com/5565777/xbox-kinect-does-not-play-well-with-couch-potatoes

[QUOTE="designer-"]Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featurexbox360isgr8t

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"][QUOTE="designer-"]Kinect lacks the ability to read you while sitting.. Thats it key missing featuredesigner-

this video shows that you can sit and control movies with gesture. There is no point in bashing, hating, judging, critizing and anything else on kinect until its actually out and we can test it for ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Vhu6YcBDE

[QUOTE="Nohtnym"]

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"] rumor at bestgenaroll

It has been confirmed forza 3 works only if you stand up. Which doesn't make any sense if kinect has "amazing recognition" like MS implies and lemmings say.

"I asked one of the two members of Forza development studio Turn 10 if I could play their demo sitting down. They said I could not, that it was "optimized for standing."

http://kotaku.com/5565777/xbox-kinect-does-not-play-well-with-couch-potatoes

Dude you must have really weird car if you drive it standing up :lol:

so will just assume its a problem based on pure speculation...its a typical ploy that they only want you to know so much haters will hate...xbox360isgr8t

Never been a hater and actually in trying to prove you wrong I found out that MS has actually said you will be able to sit. So great news, now lets give me some games and I might pick it up...

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"] so will just assume its a problem based on pure speculation...its a typical ploy that they only want you to know so much haters will hate...designer-

Never been a hater and actually in trying to prove you wrong I found out that MS has actually said you will be able to sit. So great news, now lets give me some games and I might pick it up...

not sure what your trying to prove me wrong with. xbox360isgr8t

With it being a rumor at best, being that there have been many articles by the press that have raised concern over this issue. Also an add by Microsoft is hardly a good point of proof of anything. Last add they had there was a kid scanning his skateboard and I fail to see that being demonstrated or talked about at all today...

edit: The link, in case you missed the point, was actually a proving you right.

This is whats wrong *from another thread *

The problem with kinect are the games that will come with it.

It's ahead of it's time, and missing it's key component.

Mind control (read, "using thoughts to control games").

With future advances of mind controler devices, to where movement can be mapped to thoughts, Kinect would be perfect for using your hands to aim/look/etc, where as your mind would be great to have your character move forward or backwards.

but for now, Kinect is just too barebones, and lacks a control mechinism for movement. It would be cool if you were just inside a giant ball, where when you walk, kinect records your movement, but as it stands, it's really only limited by having a stationary camera, and making you move around it.

I dunno. It's just too little, too soon. without devices that can sense our thoughts and map them to controls, there will never be a true "hands-free gaming device" that can do more than watch you exercise, or make you pretend to play with skittles.

0rin

Biofeedback based gaming, which will arrive when the price of the hardware comes out, will do just what you describe. I have used the equipment in graduate school, and it works... it's just too expenisve. So you may be kidding, but this will happen within our lifetimes, believe it or not.

This is whats wrong *from another thread i posted in*

nitsud_19

Win

This is whats wrong *from another thread i posted in*

nitsud_19