Kotaku asks developers, "Will Kinect really not work while you're sitting?"

[Alby_da_Wolf]

JamaicameCRAZY said:

Squilliam said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Tech demo? So it should show what that tech actually does. But it doesn't.

About using it as remote controle while sitting, are you meaning using voice commands or gestures?

Edit: again, I'm not meaning it's a failure, I mean MS should be more honest and push Kinect for all the things it's good or even the best at. This way it could be a huge success without making some user feel cheated and pissing them off. It's not a tech problem, it's just the same old problem of MS' usual attitude.

They already confirmed the ability to use it as a remote whilst sitting. You don't have to stand up to change the channel. Both voice and gesture work whilst sitting.

They are being honest as far as I can tell. They are pushing the styles of games which the current level of software/back end software can perform comfortably and they are pushing back features which aren't quite there yet. So whilst they can do single person voice comfortably they haven't nailed doing multiple voices in one instance so they pushed back that feature and they pushed back some of the games which rely on sitting to work.

I don't see why anyone would feel cheated by anything they have presented. They haven't shown any games which would work poorly with the interface thus far, so if you bought Kinect any of the named titles and played them you ought to be sure that the experience will work as advertised.

Is Micro paying you or something, your like some PR guy for them. 

@ bolded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM

So Kinect can do everything we see here? I could easily understand why people would feel cheated. I am pro Sony and if they did something like this i sure as hell wouldn't support them. They shouldn't act like it can do things it can't do plain and simple, thats false advertising, thats wrong. Don't get me wrong i am not knocking Kinect, i am knocking their tactics and how they are going about all this. I am sure kinect is great at what it can do and that is what they should show. I am just curious if they dont get everything working correctly if they will inform the average consumer? If e3 is any indication im guessing no.

And from what has been said about how much computing power it uses of the current XB360, we also know that while some refinements are actually just matter of time, bigger ones like increasing the number of players in full body games, or maybe even arriving to track fingers, if the cameras' resolution allows it, will require the computing power of XB720, so they won't be available on XB360, despite already theoretically feasible. Saying that SW refinements can add features is a partial truth, because it omits that a necessary condition is that there be still computing power available to run them, and also that the physical limits of the HW be not exceeded.