I just got excited for kinect again!

The video didn't look bad at all. It looked like good advertising which Microsoft is pretty good at.

I was just surprised by how much the title was a trolling type title, considering it was a great video. 

That was a fanboy type forum post more than an article. 

It looked great. A few glitches, but on the whole great.

What parents will hear when they watch this.

"This is going to make kids in America skinny again" - Jimmy Fallon

me too!

This product is still undergoing development ... but to anyone saying that there was not a lag/recognition problem in the video, I am not sure what they are seeing.

What was more of a concern to me was that the lag was not uniform. While Kudo Tsunoda's avatar seemed to be close on its reactions, Miranda Cosgrove's tended to be twitchy and lagged. This could be a calibration problem (minor) or could point to an issue related to having players of differing sizes playing at the same time.  (Miranda is quite petite compared to Kudo).

A couple of larger points that I see in here that I want to address.

First, Kinect (and to a lesser extent Sony Move) seem to be drawing the same types of reception that used to be reserved only for the Wii from many members of the video game media. I wonder if they feel threatened by the changing nature of video gaming. (As a Wii owner, it is nice to see Luke Plunkett "troll" on another system for a change.)

Second, the assumption by posters that the "casuals" will love it and buy it in droves shows how little people know about casual gamers. Casuals often tend to play free games, so they are not going to automatically come out and spend $360 for a simulated white water rafting experience (current estimated price for Kinect/X360 Slim Arcade bundle and Kinect Adventure if they don't already own an Xbox 360 -- actual price may be lower.).  

Also, the experience is not all that different than what can be had on the Wii (see everything from Wii Sports Resort to Namco Bandai's Active Life series with mats for the jumping). Unlike other gamers, casuals tend to play an experience, then want to move on to another experience. That is the only logical explanation for subsequent annual series of sports games and other sequels tending to sell much worse than the initial installment of a game. 

Plus, casuals don't like bad/broken games. There is a reason that a lot of games did not sell on the Wii -- word gets around when something does NOT work as well as it should have.

Mike from Morgantown

I have addressed this earlier in this thread, I believe.  The issue with Miranda was her outfit.  All those shiny/reflective surfaces will act to bounce and reflect the infrared pulses away from the camera and distort the accuracy of Kinect.  Had she been wearing something different I am sure it would have been fine.  It had no problem picking up either Jimmy or Kudo and they were wearing non-reflective clothes.

So all the xbox gamers that used to complain that the Wii was too casual and made people look stupid when playing games actually think this is a good thing?  Really?

This will be shovelware central.

I feel embarassed for you lol

Anyways after watching the video it actuually made me more interested in kinect...Looks fun

and I really do hope this takes off because young children are so fat and lazy now a days, this might get them off there *** once and a while