Not sure how it works, but is this considered false advertising?

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SpartenOmega117 on 12 October 2010

so many haters in this thread. well i guess if we are not hating on someone or something then we wouldn't be vgchartz users would we?

Anyways I think i read somewhere that kinect can't track those small movements. But i'm not 100% sure.

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tuscaniman on 12 October 2010

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puffy on 13 October 2010

Wow that ad should be banned simply because it's terrible

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To my understanding, false advertising is flat out decieving and lying to the consumers.

Like for example, If a Kinect ad focuses on Voice Recognition and in the end product, there is no Voice Recognition feature at all, then that's false advertising and the consumer can sue MS.

Or let's say there's a new Book coming out about Werewolves and in an ad, they mention that Vampires will play a big role in the book but when you read it, there's not a single reference to Vampires, then that's false advertising.

I could be wrong people but that's what I'm pretty sure it is.

In this case it's technically not false advertising because of the 'You Be the Controller' and that was the whole point of the ad.

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Squilliam on 13 October 2010

This is corporate America. If they haven't already checked it with the lawyers 3 times they probably won't air it.

Tease.

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Fumanchu on 13 October 2010

Euphoria14 said:

I was reading the article about how MS sent Jim Sterling a take-down notice for his rather harsh article about the Kinect"teasers", but as I watched the Kinectimals one I couldn't help but wonder if it could be considered false advertising.

Now before people start jumping down my throat try reading what I have to say and if so please inform me on how the business works because I will be the first to admit that I am not 100% sure on the rules of advertising, but to me, a consumer who has plenty of info on the Kinect, I know this commercial lies.

Those kids are wiggling their fingers in what looks to be them petting the animal or playing with it in some way.

Isn't Kinect incapable of detecting that?

Just want to get some input, because I saw this brought up in the comments section and was wondering what others might know that I might not. Maybe this is partly the reason why they didn't want them shown and sent out the take-down notices?

Thanks.

It looks like 'skittles' can detect it?