Kinect Question: what happened to scanning items in?

[greenmedic88]

Porcupine_I said:

greenmedic88 said:

Wikkid666 said:

It's definitely happening... Kinectimals does it.  But you have to buy the stuffed animals.  Buy a new one... scan it into the game then you have a virtual pet.

It's not the same at all.

Kinectimals is the equivalent of buying "Eye of Judgement" playing cards (only one at a time and with each card being sold with a stuffed animal) and having the camera scan in the data code on the card to activate the in-game character on screen.

The stuffed animals are not only unnecessary (you just need the card) they have nothing to do with the way Kinect "sees" what it's supposed to activate in game.

I wouldn't be completely surprised if you could just print out a copy of the card itself and use that instead of one bought with a toy, assuming the cards don't use any special inks (IR based or otherwise).

It's not anything like holding a stuffed animal "Cookie Monster" in front of Kinect and seeing it magically appear in Kinectimals.

i believe the stuffed animals need to be bought per se, as i understand it they are part of a advertising campaign by Microsoft together with burger King. 

I'm pretty sure this is the case as well (stuffed animals for Kinectimals are actually pretty spot on as a promotional item), but it's a really bad example to show that 3D object scanning works with Kinect because it's not scanning anything but a 2D code on a card.