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Ooh I'd like to see that!



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mantlepiecek said:
Reading lips seems not possible. Also bundled? No way. It may be available as a separate bundle.


To read lips?! way too much variation in mouth shape and lazy speech would make this very difficult to do so i agree with you! i'm not saying it impossible mind just highly unlikely in computer gaming hardware mouth shape is too unpredictable

Highly doubt it'll be bundled either unless the cost of the console is sky high, Kinect retailed at around £130 in the UK (if memory serves me) to put that price on top of a console would be a very high entry level! i could see the original Kinect coming bundled with the next console as the move will be with the PS4

I have no doubt Kinect 2 will be available and will be a marked improvement on the original these claims however are a little hopeful



If that is true it will not only rely on reading lips. The lips would give ADDITIONAL info on how to interpret speech thus possibly making voice recognition more accurate. (At least that's my theory...)



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Just as Kinect 1 was rumoured to be able to track fingers?
Why does it need to read lips when it has a microphone anyway?



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SvennoJ said:
Just as Kinect 1 was rumoured to be able to track fingers?
Why does it need to read lips when it has a microphone anyway?

Kinect can track fingers right now. And even facial expressions and movements.



SvennoJ said:
Just as Kinect 1 was rumoured to be able to track fingers?
Why does it need to read lips when it has a microphone anyway?

Kinect can track fingers. And the lip reading is just an example to illustrate its precision, there aren't any rumors about it actually being used for it.



drkohler said:
binary solo said:
Remember Milo?

You mean that faked demo? I think we all remember that.

>"It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor >and straight to the main RAM and ask, what do you want to do with it?" our source said.

Anyone can translate that babbling into normal language? English, french, german would be ok for me..

First, it wasn't faked.

Second:

There are many options for cables/inputs (such as USB 3.0) that can take the much higher resolution data and give it straight to the data crunching parts of the Xbox, which will reduce lag and increase accuracy/detail/precision.



Kinect 2.0 will be able to see when someone is giving you a blowjob :p

Seriously though, I somewhere am hoping they will bundle it with at least a certain SKU of the "nextbox", as I am unlikely to go out and buy a seperate one, because i don't want on that much.



Rainbird said:


"It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor and straight to the main RAM and ask, what do you want to do with it?" our source said.

...and then Kinect will do exactly what you want:

"i guess he wants to aim at this enemy" let's do that

"i guess he wants to shoot them now" Okey dokey!

"oh, new enemy, i guess he wants to kill that one now" you got it!



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’