Comic-Con: The Future of Xbox

[endimion]

Adinnieken said:

endimion said:
wowowo hold it right there.... while I love the profile loading Kinect feature and think it is great step forward towards removing unnecessary steps into the gaming process and living you more time to whatever you want to do with your entertainment time... even if it is one second at a time....

where did you read that it will load profiles over XBL????? I can believe if you have the profile on the box it will work.... but I have a hard time believing it will load it through XBL....

that would some of the great amazing power of the cloud right there.... now I would even be blown away if it works just with the profiles of the people in your friend list.... that would be some bad ass trick right there.... but I'd still settle for a local load of existing profiles on the box....

Well, back several months ago Microsoft patented the feature.  It may have even been as far back as last Winter.  I can't remember exactly when.  Microsoft has also hinted at the same feature, as a part of the benefits of the Cloud, since the announcement.  With an Internet connected Xbox One, your profile is stored on the Cloud.  In Windows terms, it's a roaming profile.  There's still a local copy, but copies are maintained in both systems.  As a part of your profile is a Kinect profile.  Certainly your body shape, and facial features.  Maybe your voice pattern as well, but that wasn't part of the original patent.  There have been additional patents regarding voice patterns/identification, however so it could be included.       

Anyway, when any person approaches the Xbox One, the console attempts to log that person into the console.  If there is a local profile it'll use it, but if not it goes up to Xbox LIVE and searches based on your Kinect profile, pulling that profile down to sign in with.

I can attempt to search for the patent, I may actually have it in my favorites, but I don't have the opportunity to search at the moment.

Hmm ok I still have a hard time believing you won't have at least to input one time your gamertag.... cause just scaning you or your face and just then go through every single profile stored in the cloud with just that data as a referencial seems like something that would need a lot of time....... I'm a tech enthousiast and can understand most technical talk when it's laid out to me.... but I have no idea if that can be done efficiently (meaning it would take seconds for the XB to ID me and load data over the cloud)
crosscomparing raw shape data to milions of profiles how long would it take???
now maybe it goes like that....

-Kinect 2 scans
-checks against local profile (no match)
-prompts you to speak out your name
-then checks for your profile on the cloud and compare data to what it understood and scanned...

that would be more efficient and fast I suppose....

then again I might be completely underestimating the power of the cloud and stuff might be doable in couple seconds just of raw body/facial shape data...