| daroamer said: You need 6-8 feet, not 12 and if you can place the sensor up higher on the wall behind the TV some people have good luck with less than 6 feet. A number of people on gaf have even said it seems to be working fine in their bedrooms although it varies game to game. I just played for an hour in the dark, I don't see how lighting is a problem. The only thing is the videos and photos are kinda dark as the only light is from the TV. |
First of all, nobody said you need 12 feet. 12 feet was just a reference to the thread starter who said he has 12 feet between his TV and the couch. In such an environment Kinect will of course work fine right out of the box. But saying that setting up Kinect is easy and takes no time just because your home is perfectly suited for Kinect is a little silly. That's like a 8 feet tall man saying it's easy to dunk a basketball. Most people have their furniture set up differently with much less space between TV and couch. For example I've read Kinect reviews on other gaming sites that stated they tried Kinect in a whole number of reviewers homes and absolutely every time the furniture needed to be somehow rearranged for Kinect. And of course how much space you need also really depends on on how tall you are, a tall man will need more distance than a child/small man.
As for lighting: correct lighting is absolutely no problem in games - because games usually only use the infrared TOF camera. But it's a huge problem for the facial recognition/Kinect ID because that feature uses the standard RGB camera. That's most probably exactly the problem JaggedSac has.
