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Kinect

[The Sceneman]

kinect sports is so much fucking fun.  no joke.

really? Is it better than Wii sports?

Im loving Dance Central and Kinectimals. I'll probably start getting into Kinect Adventures once I 1000G Kinectimals.

Kinectimals is a great game, really fun and cute, and theres tons of shit to collect. It's like 8-10 hours for 1000G so surprisingly big too. My only complaints are the contest activities don't really intergrate the cubs as much as they should, and are a bit repetitive. And the flying narrator weasel fairy thing is a bit intense sometimes. The graphics and animation are fantastic.

[pilonv1]

Australian news journalism is terrible, not sure why they're upset.

Well I know why, but I mean why would normal people care.

[Eel O'Brian]

guess he should have spent some of that $150 on a haircut instead

[Sho Nuff]

Wow Dance Central is now in my top 3 music games, sitting proudly alongside Para Para Paradise and Samba de Amigo

Maaaan I am so tempted to roll out to Target tonight and get DANSU MASTAZU

[TripleA]

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Kinect

He's not the controller 

[TripleA]

People seemed more pissed that it became a kinect advertisement that Microsoft paid for. Which, I don't see but whatever.

Really?

[Sho Nuff]

bu bu bu microsoft has good PR, waaaahh

[Cormacaroni]

gaf ntards are fuming over this

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The segment ends with an obviously mentally disturbed child-like grown man sitting in a room full of plush Mario’s, which even made me feel a little dirty (and I like Nintendo). I would hate to think what the general public would think of a Nintendo fan after seeing that.

 

ahahahaha

heh, i'm in there briefly talking to GameBoy Jason, at 2.57

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Kinect

So you're basically a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow if you end up lower than the 3rd place. 

[T-Short]

heh, i'm in there briefly talking to GameBoy Jason, at 2.57

Ah heh, I instantly recognized Degroot but didn't see that was you. No aussie fame for Cormacaroni

[Howard Alan Treesong]

[Philip Cardgage]

hmmm, that comic kindaaaa sucked.

[Sho Nuff]

Confused, my kinect sits right under the TV. The problem is I have to move hella far away from it to play. Maybe if the astronaut was going into space to play Kinectimals

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Confused, my kinect sits right under the TV. The problem is I have to move hella far away from it to play. Maybe if the astronaut was going into space to play Kinectimals

[Raban]

he did it wrong, then. Only your body has to be far away, not the camera.

[Brehvolution]

I demand mupepe impressions!

Edit: More than just X game is fun.

[Philip Cardgage]

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[Howard Alan Treesong]

Oh, please! All right, let me reintroduce you two. Rider, meet horse. Horse, meet rider.

[maxy]

 

[Mupepe]

I demand mupepe impressions!

Edit: More than just X game is fun.

haha  okay okay

first off, it has to be fucking FAR.

I've got that motherfucker mounted on the wall so about 9 ft of space and it's still a tight fit.  I gotta rearrange my living room. 

It gets a little frustrating sometime with two people because of the limited space, it loses you sometime for seemingly no reason at all.  but everything is gravy with one person.  At the moment, it has trouble with kids because they're too short to play with an adult in its current position.

Games are amazingly fun.  It feels much more interactive than the wii because i move my whole damn body to run and hit the tennis ball.  it's way more challenging than most wii games and not in the i'm so fucking frustrated because my wii/kinect misses my movements, but because the opponent is more challenging.  playing volleyball with another person is the shit and you really get into it.

some games get dumbed down with 2 players.  I don't know if it's because of my limited space or it would do it no matter how much space I have.  but for example, in table tennis single player I have to run from side to side to get the ball.  in mulitiplayer i just swing the paddle, backhand, left, right etc.  the avatar moves on his own so there's no running

either way, it's awesome.  I'm getting dance central soon so I'l let you know about that.  But it works awesome. and i'm pretty excited about what they can do with it. 

[Mupepe]

oh yeah and manual calibration is the shit.  with all the calibration shit available it's really intuitive and easy to fix any tracking issues.  input lag is pretty minimal

[Cormacaroni]

I was offered a Kinect for free yesterday but turned it down - there's just no way I could play it without moving every piece of furniture in my living room around. (this was also why it was being given away). Who cares about a bit of convenience in the interface if it causes so much real life inconvenience. Half-baked.

[EmCeeGrammar]

he did it wrong, then. Only your body has to be far away, not the camera.

I'm pretty sure its relative peoples!

[Mupepe]

Yeah, if you don't have the space it's more of a pain in the ass than anything.  I barely have enough to make it work perfect with one person.  It is pretty damn dodgy with two if playing anything that requires it to track your lower half.  But bowling with people is damn fun party game and is way more fun than the wii version and way less "ARGH WHY THE FUCK DID IT DO THAT" moments

[EmCeeGrammar]

The wii sports resort of bowling is damn near perfect. I grew to dislike the Wii Sports version because applying spin didn't spin the direction you intended, but rather locked on to pins. The motionplus allowed them to accurately control and direct your spin, and you could further influence that by when you released your ball. The impression I got from kinect is that it 'guesses' when you release the ball based on your gesture, and that kind of thing would piss me off to be honest.

[TripleA]

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The future of Xbox gaming.

[Cormacaroni]

I was offered a Kinect for free yesterday but turned it down - there's just no way I could play it without moving every piece of furniture in my living room around. (this was also why it was being given away). Who cares about a bit of convenience in the interface if it causes so much real life inconvenience. Half-baked.

who was giving it away?

My daughter kept interrupting my Kinectimals introduction, and I think it was confused about who it was supposed to be tracking, because she was causing the panther to lie down, while I was causing it to jump. Pretty weird.

our Microsoft chum, who beta tested it.

[chronovore]

I was offered a Kinect for free yesterday but turned it down - there's just no way I could play it without moving every piece of furniture in my living room around. (this was also why it was being given away). Who cares about a bit of convenience in the interface if it causes so much real life inconvenience. Half-baked.

who was giving it away?

My daughter kept interrupting my Kinectimals introduction, and I think it was confused about who it was supposed to be tracking, because she was causing the panther to lie down, while I was causing it to jump. Pretty weird.

our Microsoft chum, who beta tested it.

Hell, I'm planning on buying it, since I have a pretty large living room (we combined our kitchen/living/dining into a "great room"). Why didn't you bag it and then give it to one of your Tokyo friends? I'm sure someone would have wanted it! Or would it have been one of those awkward "Where is that Kinect I gave you?" moments over beers at Casa Cormacaroni?

[iconoclast]

The future of console gaming.

Fixed. No need to get too specific.

[chronovore]

Or would it have been one of those awkward "Where is that Kinect I gave you?" moments over beers at Casa Cormacaroni?

his X360 had just RRoD'ed under our care , he then cooked a massive turkey and was the perfect host despite his terrible loss - i think then taking his Kinect for nothing would have been taking the piss a bit !

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Please send turkey.

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maxy getting owned by Kinect:

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[chronovore]

So, wait, when did JoyRide go from being a free, shared content, possibly microtransaction game to a disc-based, retail, nearly-full-price SKU? 

[pilonv1]

So, wait, when did JoyRide go from being a free, shared content, possibly microtransaction game to a disc-based, retail, nearly-full-price SKU? 

Once they announced it for Kinect I think.

[Stoney Mason]

So, wait, when did JoyRide go from being a free, shared content, possibly microtransaction game to a disc-based, retail, nearly-full-price SKU? 

My cynical mind says once they saw Mod Nation Racers and knew JoyRide was DOA. Might as well refashion it for Kinect and try to soak the idiots.

[Sho Nuff]

Think I'm gonna be That Guy and flip mine while the getting's good. I like Dance Central buy my backlog of Real Games takes priority

[maxy]

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[Shaka Khan]

On the one hand: Neat idea.

On the other: Would never buy any platformer using that type of craptacular controls. So sad it hurts.

[TripleA]

Poor Kinect, it needs Nintendo games to make it look cool.

[magus]

Poor Kinect, it needs Nintendo games to make it look cool.

Poor Nintendo Games, they needs Kinect to make them look cool.

[SantaC]

Poor Kinect, it needs Nintendo games to make it look cool.

Poor Nintendo Games, they needs Kinect to make them look cool.

yeah smb1 really needed kinect back in 1986

[magus]

that's the point, it was made 25 years ago! It was awesome back then, but todays standards i expect more out of smb1. And the controls sucks. Why do they need the need to not have waggle in a platformer?

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[The Sceneman]

fuck Kinect Adventures is so homo but the cheevs are so easy I cant resist playing the thing

[chronovore]

Think I'm gonna be That Guy and flip mine while the getting's good. I like Dance Central buy my backlog of Real Games takes priority

Crap, so I shouldn't even bother? It's not compelling?

My cynical mind says once they saw Mod Nation Racers and knew JoyRide was DOA. Might as well refashion it for Kinect and try to soak the idiots.

Once they announced it for Kinect I think.

There was never any real announcement about it though, huh? Man, I thought it would be a really interesting experiment for XBLA, to have a first-party title that was out there for everyone for free, meaning it would probably have a consistent online multiplayer group available, plus the ability to show off your Avatar Awards, so there's something driving that marketplace, PLUS it would be interesting data about micropayments driving a console multiplayer game... Darn it. I was curious how it would work out. Now it's just shovelware for a controller most people won't buy.

[AdmiralViscen]

So, since Channukah is almost here, my dad asked me what I wanted.  I said Kinect & he said, why don't we just get it today   To my surprise, the Target near me had 3 Kinect Sensors left I gotta say, it is pretty different compared to the Wii.  I was getting so into Kinect Adventures (and the Kinect Joy Ride Demo) that I had to take my asthma inhaler afterwards   I'll probably end up getting the various sports/"exercise" titles.

[Mupepe]

dear lord.  GAF?

[Stoney Mason]

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/11/29/kinect-sells-2-5-million-in-first-25-days.aspx

2.5 million sold through.

[Dickie Dee]

btw, is Forza Kinect - Forza 4 w/ Kinect enabled, "Forza Adventures" with Forza 4 being a separate "core" project, or an actual gimped Forza sequel with none other in the works. Is this known yet?

[Stoney Mason]

btw, is Forza Kinect - Forza 4 w/ Kinect enabled, "Forza Adventures" with Forza 4 being a separate "core" project, or an actual gimped Forza sequel with none other in the works. Is this known yet?

No one knows for sure but I guarantee either way there will be a core Forza 4 with all the features you'd expect from that franchise released in the fall of next year

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this is really cool

[maxy]

Check this out

Razorfish has ported the DaVinci: Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator  to be used with the Kinect. The prototype they have created is stunning. This seems like one of the best Kinect apps till date. The video is spectacular. Just watch..

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[Cormacaroni]

cool...but not really doing anything a mouse couldn't, right? Left button for grab, right for release, that's it. There is zero 3 dimensionality to it.

[maxy]

Yeah,but they will be adding stuff
Kinect can see depth so it would be natural thing to do

http://emergingexperiences.com/

To date, many of the experiments in gestural interface development have not taken into account the hands. Unfortunately, the result is an experience that isn’t precise – users have no context of where they are interacting in the virtual space and 1-to-1 manipulation of objects in a scene proves difficult. By using an clenched hand to signify “grabbing” an object and an open hand to signify “releasing” an object, we are able to create experiences with an higher level of precision which can mimic a touch based experience. In fact, we’ve created a Kinect plugin to enable our entire suite of touch-based experiences to work with gestures – more videos to come!

Gesture-based interaction is great when touch isn’t practical. For instance, on a large screen projected display as shown in the video above it is difficult or physically impossible to control the entire area using touch. Using a technology like Kinect, we can create a virtual canvas in mid-air in front of the user. Interactions within this virtual canvas space are projected into the experience as shown in the DaVinci example.

To be honest, we had a blast playing with this experience. It definitely fulfilled all of our Star Wars fantasies of controlling objects with your mind. We’ll be adding more features in the coming weeks including the Darth Vader death grip. Stay tuned!

[maxy]

Something interesting

You knew it was coming. It was inevitable. And, yes, I'm talking about Kinect sex.

With almost any hot new tech toy, especially one with a heavy degree of interactivity--which Microsoft's motion-sensitive controller has in spades--someone is going to try to hack it and try to make it X-rated. The Kinect is no exception.

To date, there are no overtly sexual Kinect games on the market, though the folks who put together Kinect MotionSwinger (pretty NSFW) would like you to believe--for a moment at least--otherwise. But that's nothing more than a joke concept for a Kinect sex game put together with some imagery from Second Life.

Still, when it comes to finding ways to utilize new technology for, shall we say, lewd purposes, there are few people more qualified thank Kyle (qDot) Machulis, the dean of the underground sex-tech genre known as tele*****nics.

In a Sunday blog post titled "Kinect Sex--Because you knew I'd make this post sooner or later," Machulis finally brings his trained eye to the project that countless millions were surely waiting for him to get around to and evaluates the kink potential of the device Microsoft is hoping may breathe new life into its Xbox 360 video game console.

The question, as Machulis delicately puts it, is "How can I [have sex]" using Kinect?

As he quickly points out, Kinect most likely wasn't designed for such a purpose, and though the device was made to recognize even minute movements by a person's body, it's geared to look for our larger limbs, like arms and legs.

"Microsoft put a ton of work into making the Kinect track the human body as a whole, so you can play games by jumping and running and generally acting the...fool and feel like you're in the game instead of just sad," Machulis wrote. "Genitalia, for the most part, are not a major geometric feature of the human body when taken in perspective of physical size....Neither are they normally used in the control of video games, be they rated [for all] or [for adults only]."

Machulis said he experimented by waving a sex toy in front of a Kinect, and then by wagging his tongue around in front of it, and concluded that the graphics quality isn't very good, though the device was capable of picking up both the toy and his tongue.

Machulis wrote. "The pattern the Kinect uses to get depth data is made for picking up full bodies to control video games, and therefore isn't quite so good at picking up minutiae about those bodies."

Yet, Machulis also points out that because the Kinect is both very good at picking up hand-based gestures and capable of identifying discrete body parts like "manbreasts" (see video below), there is the distinct possibility that the device could be used to digitize--albeit with less than ideal graphics quality--simulated sexual motions

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20024024-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

[Herr Mafflard]

Pfft still not a viable substitute for the blow up doll.

[maxy]

Ahhhhhh

My elite xbot armor is slowly melting,i can't stop watching this vid...

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Checked amazon to see the prices and.....we are doomed
Kinect games are slowly creeping up

From Amazon,360 only chart

1.Call of Duty: Black Ops   
2.Kinect Sports   
3.Dance Central
4.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood   
5.Halo Reach

Currently Kinect hardware is sold out(standalone and bundles) and almost every standalone 360 sku(only few sku left)
Never saw something like that

Same song different performers...yes,i like that song and dance choreography

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[Beezy]

leather jacket dude is obviously the best dancer there

[maxy]

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[Dickie Dee]

ahh shit, time to start evacuating Echo Base.

[chronovore]

Wait, so if I want a Kinect I should not expect to find one in post-Christmas Silicon Valley? Can anyone tell me if they're region-specific?