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Barozi on 25 May 2013
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Ajescent said:

Chances are, these answers are obvious but for whatever reason I just missed them or whatever.

 

1:Voice control is not the only to navigate menus is it? I saw someone ask the question "what if the person can't speak?"
Certainly not. Hand gestures and/or controller should do it.

2: What exactly was the point of adding a heartrate monitor to the system and how exactly does it work?
I love the muscle stress thing. But the Heartrate thing does seem to be taking it a step too far, maybe it's just me but that is my biggest discomfort with the One.
I heard the Kinect uses the IR to see your puls rate through your carotid artery or other veins or something like that. I'm not one hundret percent sure either here.
It will definitely be used in sports (and I'm not talking about FIFA >.> ) and fitness games.

3. From my understanding (please correct if wrong): Disc games install once to your system and then can be played from the system without the disc. The question is; If that's the case, won't it be easier for me to just buy the game from XBL and cut out the middle man?
MS will make sure that you have to pay the same price regardless :P
The games will get even bigger, so if you have a very fast internet connection it might be better for you.
Though the first SKU has "only" 500GB of HDD space, so if we assume an average of ~25GB per game (which is probably a bit too high for the first few games), you'd need to deinstall a game after you have 20 on the HDD. That's where the disc might come in handy again.

3b. There's so many things out there about used games on the One that it's hard to get any sense from it. Assuming the above is true, does this mean that a scenario could happen where you buy a pre-used disc from GAME (or whereever) for say... £10, take it home but can't use it because the system wants you to pay the full £40 that's the original asking price. so technically, there's a situation where you end up spending more for a 2nd hand copy of a game than you would the first hand. Which I guess is just the same as the question in 3A. Would it be easier to just cut out the middle man and buy from XBL?
From what I've read there is no unified answer from Microsoft on that topic, so I can't answer that.