No long skirts for Kinect as another revelation about the device comes to light.

t just seems to get worse and worse for Microsoft's upcoming motion-sensing camera Kinect.

Following on from reports suggesting that you'll need to stand up in order to use the device, and the revelation that significant space will be required for the camera to see you, it now appears that you - or your mum, at least - is going to have to dress a certain way if they want to 'jump in' with Kinect.

According to a report on TechRadar, a woman attempting to play Kinect Sports while dressed in a long skirt simply couldn't due to the device not being able to "see enough of her legs".

"Although, hilariously, we saw one woman who's (sic) long skirt prevented her from playing the track racing game on the device because it couldn't see enough of her legs," reads the report.

"Evidently you'll have to dress suitably to play Kinect."

Oh dear.

Considering Kinect's casual-friendly focus, this seems to be another blow for the device which has already been scrutinised by much of the industry for its apparent shortcomings.

Kinect launches on Xbox 360 this November. Don't bring a skirt.

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LOL what? I hope this is not true...a gotta see em legs requirement is a bit weired

I guess I'll have to dress appropriately, too.  Kinect probably wasn't designed with three legged people in mind.

how long is too long?

the age old question continues....

seriously though, are we talking about a dress or a japanese schoolgirl skirt?

Is anyone really surprised by this?  It would take like 2 seconds of thought to have realized this after the public was told how the system worked after last E3.  It isn't magical.

I would imagine more controversy would be made if the system could see through clothing.

Who wears a dress to go running? 

also, most importantly, can the device detect naughty bits?

Seriously, the Japanese market is driven by porn games.

who puts on pants to play video games?

are all games involve running? I see this is gonna be an issue for family centric games...

Makes sense dresses would mess up the camera detecting legs.   Kinect gets iff-ier all the time.

I also noticed that in the demos everyone was wearing solid coloured shirts and pants.  No designs or logos.

The press didn't report any problems and certainly they weren't but it makes me wonder.

waa waaa!