| Zappykins said: Thanks man! From the responses I'm seeing in the real world, most people inted to buy the Xbox One with a Kinect. So maybe the effect will be really slight. Ah, the illumi room. Yea, that thing was cool and it was using the old Kinect 1.0! The reason I understand they pushed it back/delayed/canceled it because the cost of the projector was higher than they thought consumers would play. Plus, Not sure how well it would work with dark wall, but a light coloured sparcly furnished room and you have a early Holodeck! |
I agree, the effect will probably be slight. It'll give a decent sales boost, but like you said, it'll kill the innovation because developers won't want to make a game for a device that not everyone has. If the effect is small enough, it might not deter developers, but I'm not terribly optimistic.
I didn't realize that was Kinect 1.0! Maybe a few years down the road we'll see Illumiroom come back, or at least something like it. And yeah, my first though when I saw the thing was "holy shit it's a Holodeck!" Given the proof of concept Illumiroom provides, I think we'll see some sort of early Holodeck type product in the same vein by 2020.
