Digital Foundry Kinect Tech Analysis : "a technical masterpiece"

[steverhcp02]

priteshmodi said:

steverhcp02 said:

thats what im saying. I for one have no interest, but for those interested, for a single entry price, every single person in your home has access to its voice recognition and gaming....how is price even relevent when we are talking high end $150? It doesnt make sense, i probably shouldnt assume here but my assumption is the tech, as gathered from my impressions, is cool, no doubt, but i dont think people care about using remotes and i think based on the largely controlled environments and perfect condition used in demos, there might be misfire....i dont know though.

The biggest problem right now that i see via amazon.com is that each of those games demoed yesterday cost a full MSRP $60 each, which is pure suicide.

In general though, at least Harmonix and Ubisoft showed off some good uses, but im fearful, like the Wii, it wont expand enough but maybe it will.

I'm not completely sold on the tech yet either. The lag from all the demos so far is noticeable and for a tech-head like myself it would become aggravating in a gaming context. Also as you said the software just isn't my cup of tea for the most part. My family would absolutely love this stuff though because they're afraid of my tech setup and how many remotes and controllers I have laying around. 

My biggest pull to actually buying the hardware is so I can play around with it myself and possibly come up with new uses for it or to simply toy around with it. I'm sure some sort of small dev community for integrating the tech onto the PC will rise from the woodwork and I'm very much looking forward to being a part of it.

I would love this for PC, but for me i only use laptops so its be awkward.....if MSFT could find a way to build kinect tech. into touch screen PC's it could be much more useful, imo. I think this is something they did backwards. This should have rolled out on PC, then maybe introduced to gaming later.

By introducing to PC's first it allows webcam functionality across a MUCH larger userbase, now it requires a 360 to 360. It could have introduced using the voice recognition to users of Windows Media Center, and they could have still put you in the game only on a smaller scale for PC or even flash games ala PSEye, but th ebig thing would have been people owning PC's could easily pick it up and the userbase is vast. Would have been a better idea to introduce the tech, imo.

Id buy it, like you, to play around with it however i couldnt use it with my main media hub or BD's i dont think its worth buying it with a 360, thats why integration with PC's would have been more important than 360's.