Kinect 2.0 Detailed

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kowenicki said:

Somini said:

thranx said:
a good read. I am really excited for kinect 2.0 . The automatic split screen aragining by where you are is awesome and user friendly. Glad they are thinking of things like this.

Does the Xbox have SingStar like games, i mean not the dancing stuff but singing?

If so, does this mean that Kinect can be sung to without a microphone?

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I doubt it... it uses wireless mic's on the 360 version.  Kinect would pick up too much ambient noise fora  singing game.

Isn't that why the microphones inside the kinect are noise cancelling microphones(via software modifications)? At least that works on the kinect SDK to some degree

Edit: Kinect and sound

Kinect comes with a group of four microphones (microphone array) that capture sound at very high quality. Indeed, directly on the sensor, a signal processor (DSP) is used to remove background noise and cancel echo effects.

Moreover, thanks to its group of microphones, Kinect can provide the direction of the recorded sound source (beamforming). Then it becomes possible to know who is speaking in a meeting for example.