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Xbox, can you hear me now? One requires repetition (Update)

 

Like a stubborn family member or insubordinate employee, Xbox One owners might need to tell their fancy new console what to do more than once.

In flashy commercials that began airing last week to promote Microsoft's upcoming video game system, an array of users verbally command their Xbox Ones to do stuff like answer a Skype call, fire up a "Titanfall" match or play the latest "Star Trek" film. The ads leave out one detail: They probably had to repeat themselves a couple of times for it to work.

At a demonstration of the Xbox One this week organized by Microsoft, the new version of the company's voice-and-motion-detecting Kinect sensor didn't work nearly as flawlessly in real life. The Xbox 360 successor, which is scheduled for release Nov. 22, required several commands to be repeated for the response to pop up on screen.

During a private 45-minute presentation showcasing the console's media and entertainment capabilities, about 10 of 45 voice commands issued had to be repeated by a Microsoft spokesman—some as many as four times. Kinect didn't immediately detect such orders as "Xbox, watch ESPN" and "Xbox, Bing movies with Sandra Bullock" during the demo.

"Everything you're seeing here is going to get better," promised Jose Pinero, senior director of marketing and public relations for Xbox, at the conclusion of Wednesday's demo. "Right now, we're still a couple of weeks away but voice, the more you use it and the more the system learns, the more accurate it becomes. We're still working on fit and finish."

 

"Microsoft got so intoxicated by the first generation of Kinect that I think they're just assuming people are still really excited about Kinect," said James McQuivey, Forrester Research analyst and author of "Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation."

This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows models posing in front of an advertisement for Microsoft Xbox One during the Tokyo Game Show 2013 in Makuhari, near Tokyo. The successor to the popular Xbox 360, is set for release Nov. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

McQuivey said because Microsoft has turned its attention to other audiences besides just gamers, they could potentially sell half as many Xbox Ones as they did Xbox 360s over the next-gen console's lifetime, especially if the system doesn't work as advertised.



Full article at: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-xbox-requires-repetition.html#jCp

 




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"Microsoft got so intoxicated by the first generation of Kinect that I think they're just assuming people are still really excited about Kinect"

...which is why its been bundled with every xbox one, cause they know Kinect hype died pretty fast. Just like Move, it isn't revolutionizing jack diddly squat.



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I don't know why we're beating around the bush. When is somebody going to make the thread titled "Xbox One does not succeed at doing anything at all".

Just when I think there's nothing else to complain about or anything else negative to say about the Xbox One, people amaze me by finding something else to put down. Resolution, Controller, voice commands, day one installs, frames per second, the cloud, Ryse, Youtube channels, the power brick--virtually every single aspect of the Xbox One has been taken apart, analyzed, and twisted towards the dark side. At this point, I wouldn't even take an Xbox One for free on Christmas morning because it could possibly rape my girlfriend.



"Microsoft got so intoxicated by the first generation of Kinect that I think they're just assuming people are still really excited about Kinect," said James McQuivey, Forrester Research analyst and author of "Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation."

This guy is bloody right too.



Who cares lol, that's why we have buttons bro



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I expected nothing else. I've never seen a completely flawless voice command system.

Over the last month, I've had two rage-inducing moments with voice command phone systems. One was at work, which was annoying, but the other was even worse. The system could not understand me saying "no", which is ridiculous, then it would just kick me back to asking again. I repeated the word "no" over ten times before I was finally able to get out of the loop and get a live agent. By that time I was thoroughly pissed off.

I have zero interest in voice commands unless they're going to be perfect.



I wonder if we'll see a repeat of this: http://kotaku.com/5976644/a-wii-u-commercial-was-pulled-because-a-single-person-complained



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I don't think we can realistically expect it to be flawless. I would however expect it to do better than 35/45 commands requiring repeats, sometimes multiple.



Despite what our best optimists would have you believe, it was never going to live up to the marketing.  That's the point of marketing - to make everything look fantastic; even when it isn't.

Still, it must work enough of the time for things like this to happen:

It'll get better with time.



attaboy said:
I don't know why we're beating around the bush. When is somebody going to make the thread titled "Xbox One does not succeed at doing anything at all".

Just when I think there's nothing else to complain about or anything else negative to say about the Xbox One, people amaze me by finding something else to put down. Resolution, Controller, voice commands, day one installs, frames per second, the cloud, Ryse, Youtube channels, the power brick--virtually every single aspect of the Xbox One has been taken apart, analyzed, and twisted towards the dark side. At this point, I wouldn't even take an Xbox One for free on Christmas morning because it could possibly rape my girlfriend.


True and its the gaming community, fill withnoth but whinny gamers who talk...just about everything but games.



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