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Adinnieken on 20 July 2013
Zappykins said:

I really wished someone had tapped this. Would like to see it.

New Kinect 10x as powerful!  There is some super impressive tech in there.

Hopefully Major Nelson taped it and will upload a video from the event.  I would be surprised if Microsoft didn't officially tape it.



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Adinnieken on 20 July 2013

Something else to highlight:

The match highlights were used as a sort of demo of the Xbox One's new video recording feature, which automatically records and stores locally the last five minutes of every game you play. Whenever something cool happens, you simply say "Xbox record" and it saves out the last 30 seconds of gameplay for upload and sharing.

This makes how the Games DVR function works a little more clear. So, basically the system automatically records the last five minutes of gameplay, and while you're playing if there is something you've done that you want to save, you just tell it to record it, and it'll grab the last 30 seconds.

I'm assuming, if you don't tell it to save anything, you lose anything that happened in the last five minutes as it begins a new five minutes. But also, you could probably go in 30 second increments saying "Xbox Record" and it'd save each clip.



Adinnieken on 20 July 2013
Machiavellian said:


Interesting you pointed this out because I was going to do the same thing and call this a system seller.  Fighting games are one of my favorites and different people have different controller layouts.  This really bog games down when a new person get on a joystick and he has to do all of his mappings.  If Kinect can really do this, realtime I believe MS just sold me Kinect 2.0

Edit:  Currently Sony does not do this and it did not do this with move because I have it on my PS3.  The PSeye does not know you and it does not using the camera to recognize who a player is.  So far the PS4 eye does not do this either.  Yes, the PSeye can folow the controller but it does not follow the player and since it is not in every PS4 its features are limited.

I agree.



endimion on 20 July 2013

wowowo hold it right there.... while I love the profile loading Kinect feature and think it is great step forward towards removing unnecessary steps into the gaming process and living you more time to whatever you want to do with your entertainment time... even if it is one second at a time....

where did you read that it will load profiles over XBL????? I can believe if you have the profile on the box it will work.... but I have a hard time believing it will load it through XBL....

that would some of the great amazing power of the cloud right there.... now I would even be blown away if it works just with the profiles of the people in your friend list.... that would be some bad ass trick right there.... but I'd still settle for a local load of existing profiles on the box....



Machiavellian on 20 July 2013

Another interesting feature that seems to be standard is the facial mapping.  Before, games like Rainbow 6 head this tech using kinect 1.  It seems like MS is making this something standard with the hardware and now any game can do this.  Little features like this can be very interesting when the console makes it standard for all games.  One of the reason why so many games use voice with the kienct because MS made the API standard with the hardware so its easy to implement.  If this will be the case for the facial mapping then adventure games like GTA, PRGs and other games that could easily implement this feature would add that immersion and seperate Kinect 2.0 from other devices.

Personally Iwould love to be able to build a charcter in a game like Soul Calibur and put my face on it.



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riderz13371 on 20 July 2013
Goddbless said:
Adinnieken said:

This is something I found particularly interesting.

"More impressively, the controllers automatically recognize who is holding the controller through the camera. When the controller is passed from player to player, the games automatically load individual controller profiles for that player. Now passing controllers around during a game won't require you to back out to the options menu and change look inversion."

So without touching anything but the controller -- no buttons -- the Xbox One signs the player in, loads their profile, and reconfigures the controller for them.  And it can do that for every player, whether you've logged onto the console or not (Internet required).

Impressive. Most impressive.

That is impressive but I feel some people will find a way to make that into a negative. It seems Kinect 2.0 will be leagues better than the old one.

Well if it wasn't then something would be very wrong lol...



riderz13371 on 20 July 2013
Adinnieken said:
JayWood2010 said:
Goddbless said:
Adinnieken said:

This is something I found particularly interesting.

"More impressively, the controllers automatically recognize who is holding the controller through the camera. When the controller is passed from player to player, the games automatically load individual controller profiles for that player. Now passing controllers around during a game won't require you to back out to the options menu and change look inversion."

So without touching anything but the controller -- no buttons -- the Xbox One signs the player in, loads their profile, and reconfigures the controller for them.  And it can do that for every player, whether you've logged onto the console or not (Internet required).

Impressive. Most impressive.

That is impressive but I feel some people will find a way to make that into a negative. It seems Kinect 2.0 will be leagues better than the old one.


It is impressive but I dont believe this is something new to the industry.  If i am correct PS4 does the same thing.  Also I believe PS Move did this.

Not knocking MSFT.  Afterall my fav controller seems to be getting better (XB controller), but it really isnt something new.  im more interested in the impulse triggers tbh.

Yes, but the PS4 Camera isn't included in-box.  The PS4, with a PS4 Camera, will detect the controller.  It is supposed to be usable for signing on a player, though this particular feature hasn't actually been demonstrated.  However, if you and I are sitting right next to each other on a couch, and you're Player 1 and I'm Player 2.  On the PS4 -- as it stands right now with the features shown -- if you and I exchange controllers, you will be me and I will be you.  The only difference is that, if we're playing split screen, the screen would switch sides.   The PS4 as it has been demonstrated knows who the player is by the color of the light bar.  Not by who is holding it.

The Xbox One actually detects who is holding the controller.  When an Xbox One is connected to the Internet, it identifies a player, pulls down the profile, and logs that user into the console.  The controllers use IR LEDs, so no visible light and those IR LEDs are all hidden behind the same green, clear plastic in the controller.  If we're sitting on a couch and exchange controllers, and you were Player 1 and I was player 2, you'd still be Player 1 and I'd still be Player 2, but if we're split screen our side of the screen would change and the control profile and Player indicator on the controller would change.

Now, if Sony does actually feature an auto sign-in process, then they could be on par.  But again, as of right now with the features demonstrated, they're not the same.  And without the PS4 Camera, they're nothing similar.

Buy it with the 100$ you save.



endimion on 20 July 2013

yeah well good for you me I'll ask the wife and all her GF to come over one night so I can do a full Ivy like roster :D to each their own right :P



deskpro2k3 on 20 July 2013

I guess that means you have to play Xbox One in a lighted room for the Kinect to see you. I wonder how close or far away you have to sit from the screen. Not really wowed by that feature, but I'm feeling neutral about it.



endimion on 20 July 2013
riderz13371 said:
Adinnieken said:
JayWood2010 said:
Goddbless said:
Adinnieken said:

This is something I found particularly interesting.

"More impressively, the controllers automatically recognize who is holding the controller through the camera. When the controller is passed from player to player, the games automatically load individual controller profiles for that player. Now passing controllers around during a game won't require you to back out to the options menu and change look inversion."

So without touching anything but the controller -- no buttons -- the Xbox One signs the player in, loads their profile, and reconfigures the controller for them.  And it can do that for every player, whether you've logged onto the console or not (Internet required).

Impressive. Most impressive.

That is impressive but I feel some people will find a way to make that into a negative. It seems Kinect 2.0 will be leagues better than the old one.


It is impressive but I dont believe this is something new to the industry.  If i am correct PS4 does the same thing.  Also I believe PS Move did this.

Not knocking MSFT.  Afterall my fav controller seems to be getting better (XB controller), but it really isnt something new.  im more interested in the impulse triggers tbh.

Yes, but the PS4 Camera isn't included in-box.  The PS4, with a PS4 Camera, will detect the controller.  It is supposed to be usable for signing on a player, though this particular feature hasn't actually been demonstrated.  However, if you and I are sitting right next to each other on a couch, and you're Player 1 and I'm Player 2.  On the PS4 -- as it stands right now with the features shown -- if you and I exchange controllers, you will be me and I will be you.  The only difference is that, if we're playing split screen, the screen would switch sides.   The PS4 as it has been demonstrated knows who the player is by the color of the light bar.  Not by who is holding it.

The Xbox One actually detects who is holding the controller.  When an Xbox One is connected to the Internet, it identifies a player, pulls down the profile, and logs that user into the console.  The controllers use IR LEDs, so no visible light and those IR LEDs are all hidden behind the same green, clear plastic in the controller.  If we're sitting on a couch and exchange controllers, and you were Player 1 and I was player 2, you'd still be Player 1 and I'd still be Player 2, but if we're split screen our side of the screen would change and the control profile and Player indicator on the controller would change.

Now, if Sony does actually feature an auto sign-in process, then they could be on par.  But again, as of right now with the features demonstrated, they're not the same.  And without the PS4 Camera, they're nothing similar.

Buy it with the 100$ you save.


well nope I'm buying the XB1 and a game with the 200 bucks I saved last gen buying an XB360 instead of a PS3.... and I still have 40 bucks for an XBL subscription.... it's great to be an XB fan... you get always the best for less if you stick with the right team.....

hey no hard feeling.... you could have set up a target on your forehead on that one I couldn't have shot better :)