My afternoon with Kinect (impressions)

[nightsurge]

jarrod said:

nightsurge said:

jarrod said:

Ugh, everything I hear on Kinect sounds awful.  But goddamn... I NEED Project Draco, Steel Battalion, etc. :/

You mean everything you hear from PS fans.

All the MS fans seem to love it as well as the casual audience that is playing/buying it.

No, everything I hear in general.  Lag, recognition, shovelware, space... the space issue is a total deal breaker for my setup, so unless that changes I won't have much choice but to forego Kinect. Hopefully all those cool sounding JP games have pad based alternative control schemes. :/

Shovelware is the same on Move and Wii.  Kinect's line-up is actually ranking above Move's on Meta so far.

Also, the recognition issues was only to do with Kinect ID features.  The motion tracking for games always works (at least for me and anyone that has tried it at my place it has) provided you have the space and no infrared device interfering.  Kinect ID (the feature that matches you with your avatar) only has issues with lots of sun light or poor lighting conditions because it relies heavily on the RGB camera for facial recognition.