Xenostar on 24 July 2013
| endimion said: yeah like a 5 dollar array mic could do what the Kinect does, and I would have to where a headset, no thank you....?!?!?!? headsets are for cheap nerds or when you can't use your regular setup because people in your household are sleeping or something or you can't afford one.... otherwise it's a piece of crap especially the one packed in consoles, but even the high end ones. and people never have love for emerging technology, it was like that for the mouse, it was like that for the CD and the DVD, it was like that for GUI in OSs, it was like that with digital camera and camcorder, the first tablet PCs, heck even the first smartphones that were a cross between PDA and feature phones.... of course Kinect was pretty shitty, like the first mobile phones had huge 20 pound batteries you had to carry in one hand with a huge military looking antenna. But still it was a huge first step, then we got GSM witch was a second step, it's only once it got cheaper and smaller it really picked up, but without their ancestors it would have probably been different or slower. Now someone that has a Kinect and doesn't use it, is either just using their Xbox 360 to play games and have no interest in Kinect games, or they just like to waste time, cause if well calibrated outside of gaming it is the best way to navigate the dashboard. I'll even go as far as to say voice command is something that will become a standard input for tech device in the near future because it's way more convenient if you don't want to waste time, don't want to focus only on the said device or don't know the interface. in the future I don't want to have to grab anything or look at anything for dumb device to do what I want, I'll tell them they'll execute. i.e. : "TV record game of throne next episode, and put on the Netflix app and play house of cards" "fridge, tell me how many steaks do I have for tonight's party, and print a list of groceries" "house call Brenda (the wife, need to ask her if she wants something specific)" "computer open outlook and tell me when is my first meeting tomorrow" "Xbox snap Xbox music" "show me my play list for tonight" "bing similar artists" *hand gesture select this that that and that* "XBOX close app" *damn missed some house of card with all that stuff, rewinds precisely with hand gesture* so yeah if you want to keep using a pad to do things the archaic way and like to waste time with the old ways and refuse to support future technologies Kinect is not for you. but if there isn't a first step, then a second, then a third it will never become like in the example... you can't just expect a tech to come out in it's premium form right of the bat, it would be great but it's usually not how it works... so yeah I expect the new Kinect to be way better than the precedent one which was already a great step forward, but it won't be perfect... we need to give it time and support the project or at least the idea, I see Kinect like MS own little kickstarter project and I'm willing to invest on it even if it means Kinect 3 or 4 will be the really revolutionary one, but you have to start somewhere and pushing it like MS does is apparently the only way for them (I bet it would be a no name group on kickstarter you would have millions of people vouching money for it) and price the issue???? last time I checked PS3 released at $200 more than the 360 a year later a 100 more than the Xbox One and today it is tracking at the same level than the 360... so price is certainly not the issue here, early adopters don't care about price and the other are just gonna like they always do, wait until the price riches an acceptable level for their budget. and I'm pretty sure MS will do the XBL plan again where you get a cheap XB1 but you have a to sign up for a 2 year XBL gold plan full price. so yeah I'm for Kinect bundled all the way, even if it will never be relevant for gaming, the tech will be used in everyday life in the future, from dressing room at home to try new outfit without putting them on, to automation system for homes and stores, to well pretty much anything that has been show cased in future tech videos.... they start it with XB because it is the only platform they have that make sense for it for now.... |
Do you think the Kinect lip reads or something it just has an array mic in it, why would you need a head set if they just bundled the mic stuff without the expensive camera tech?
Much cheaper console still has all the exact same voice commands without a headset. Can buy a camera later if your interested in the handfull of sports minigame titles.
