Re: Kinect thoughts...

On Jun 14, 5:38 pm, "The Almighty N (Blig, Creamy and Jonah's owner)"
<simplytheb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 14, 6:45 pm, Jordan <lu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jun 14, 3:42 pm, The alMIGHTY N <natle...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 14, 6:16 pm, Jordan <lu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 14, 3:02 pm, Trevor Smithson <trevor_smith...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's a camera, similar to the one from PS2 days.

It'll go just as nowhere.

Go watch the press conference and see if you feel the same way.

The way Kinect integrates with the existing dashboard alone is miles
ahead of anything done with the EyeToy.

Except that nobody cares about waving their arms around to control the
dashboard.

No, but walking into a room and saying "Xbox play music" is damned
cool. It's not just motion controls. It's voice-op too.

I'd love to see how well it can discern all the inflections,
mispronunciations of artists and song names, etc. that are bound to
occur.

"Xbox Play Music" is the smallest amount of interesting assuming you
already have a playlist set up. It kind of kills the convenience when
you have to have already chosen exactly what it will play using
traditional means.

It doesn't really work.

How well it works naturally depends on implementation. I love my iPad,
I think it's pretty brilliant, but iTunes is the buggiest piece of
shit I've ever used from a major software company.

The combination of hardware and software is what will make or break
Kinect, I guess we'll have to wait and see for sure. But the POTENTIAL
is pretty darned awesome.

- Jordan
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