d21lewis on 20 October 2012
| pokoko said: What Microsoft did very successfully was to sell people on the potential of Kinect. Remember that infamous promotional video with the kid scanning his skateboard and the girl trying on clothes virtually? Borderline deceptive but also very clever. People were thinking that this kind of thing would be in the near future for the Kinect device. The reality is much more mundane. It turns out that Microsoft was unable to evolve the current version very much though software. Some of the ideas they got people excited over, it turns out Kinect sucks at. They just weren't able to do these things without causing frustration, which is the bane of entertainment. However, there are some things Kinect does very well, such as dance and fitness games, and I think that was the saving grace for the device. |
There's a lot of software that lets you scan 3D models of stuff with Kinect. My daughter scanned her stuffed animal into a game over a year ago.
