Kinect Question: what happened to scanning items in?

[greenmedic88]

thx1139 said:

Reasonable said:

thx1139 said:

What gave anyone the idea you could scan anything and the game/software would react to any old object.  I always took that hey I can scan my own skateboard in a skateboard game and the skateboard in the game will look like mine and nothing else.  Using the scanner or a 3d barcode like the one in this thread shows that scanning can be done.  All this talk about Kinect cant do X that it may have showed in concept videos is BS if thier isnt software now that does it.  One the thing hasnt launched yet and two even at launch you arent going to see full capabilities.  At launch of a piece of hardware when have we ever seen full capabilities.

I'm assuming from the OP he's referring to some early marketing videos MS showed which featured scanning of object and immediate use of that scanned object in a game environment.

I always took this as marketing hype as clearly, unless you hook up Kinect to something like LBP engine you're going to be restricted to pre-configured content for games and while some scanning will be supported it's unlikely to be anything like that shown in the videos.

I assume that as well.  I watched the video. The kid scans a skateboard and then a skateboard that looks like his is useable in game.  My assumption is that it was a skateboarding game and the software simply skinned the in game skateboard to look like his.  So maybe sometime in the future a skateboard game will do just this.  Honestly something simple like a flat board on a skateboard should be perfectly doable.

That should technically be pretty easy to code since it's already been done in LBP with a single lens camera to create in game "sticker" textures. But if it's just textures or creating flat plane (2D) images, there isn't any need for or benefit of 3D object scanning even if Kinect can physically do this on a practical, working level.

I'm more or less willing to write the whole "skateboarding" video segment off as potential concept application rather than something that was actively being incorporated into a game.

For starters, when you think about it, why would you need to "scan in" your skateboard, if the game already had the related resources (animation cycles, rigs, etc.) to make the on-screen character animate like a skateboarder? Presumably it would be for a skateboarding game, meaning the game already has 3D model/resources for a variety of skateboards and wouldn't need to "scan in" your personal skateboard in order to play.