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disolitude on 10 July 2013
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SxyxS said:
disolitude said:
Kantor said:
That would require some guy to watch millions of hours of footage and manually identify the members of your family and pets.

Most likely it's to try and convince developers to use the functionality, knowing that every Xbox One owner will be able to use it. Plus they're definitely turning some extra profit on top.

Not necessarily. Kinect could map face algorithms and match them with user behavior patterns. But its irrelevant...

It just isn't technically possible for TV advertising to use something like this. TV ads are pre-programmed ahead of time and cannot be changed unless you switch the feed completely. Until everything becomes IP based this idea is technically impossible. When it becomes IP based, the idea becomes useless since every IP based service is tied to a user account, and they already see user preferences associated with that account and don't need Kinect.

Only thing Kinect may help with in the near future is allow Xbox dashboard ads to play when you're in the room and stop when you leave. No one wants to waste bandwidth... lol


are you 100% sure that ms are not in bed with the tv companies?

let's suppose they offer you 2 options of watching tv.

1)= regular tv program.with regular commercials watching with a receiver

2)=the same tv programm but instead of regular commercials with xbox1 user optimised commercials (submitted by the cloud)

 

well-they'd have to start small and make this lemming surveillance service look attractive eg. with football and than try to do this with all major tv stations and use this for all major series,movies and sports

They are not. At least not in Canada.

I am 100% sure because like I said, I work for a cable company and if they wanted to offer something like this, I would know and be involved in making it happen. Your thinking is sound, and its a good idea...but there are so many roadblocks in the way. In terms of how cable TV advertising works and is being sold to clients, video ad serving technology involved, peoples jobs and their skillset, revenue tracking... They would not be able to offer this without a massive overhaul to the cable TV infrastructure.  

For example...

A new prime time Survivor episode is about to air. Cable TV predicts that 1 million viewers will watch this episode. Mercedes pays a certain value based on viewership and placement associated with that show. Cable company can't allow Microsoft to show a different set of ads than the ones they have sold if you're watching Survivor since Mercedes paid for that spot and are expecting viewership tracking and metrics from the cable company.