Unembeddable first video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CfAH0TM5Q

Stand in front of the next-gen Kinect, the one that can read your heartbeat just by looking at you (it's true; I tried it), and in theory it can scan your face. In the Xbox One game Kinect Sports: Rivals, Kinect 2.0 should be able to turn you into a video game character. But can it really?

The official Xbox video up top shows Kinect Sports: Rivals' face-scanning at its magical best. The first 70 seconds are a marvel. The Kinect appears to outperform its predecessor as well any other camera-based facial scans seen in previous console generations.

One video isn't enough proof, though. It's edited. It's from Microsoft. Let's check some other demonstrations of this tech out shall we?

Here's one where it works well:

This next one? The scanning takes an eternity and puts hair on the man's shaved head. Not so hot.

And then there's this one. The scan time is fairly short. The results are decent.

So... not quite as magical as it appears at first, but a next-gen step up?

http://kotaku.com/is-next-gen-kinect-facial-scan-as-magical-as-it-seems-1188482849

Which is probably one reason the game isnt a launch game 

Also the guy in 2nd vid does have hair which could be why it took long and gave him hair

It's miles ahead of the first Kinect but it still looks like it needs a lot of work. The results so far look pretty hit or miss so far from these three videos. The face for the first one was uncanny looking but it got the hair right. More or less opposite results for the other two videos.

In the first video she must have been disapointed at her avatar, it was fucking ugly, and the chick is actually pretty (by my standards).

About the heart beat, is it actually reliable ? Many people have tried it ? It seems so far fetched, almost unbelievable.

How do you think it compares to the first one? I don't see that much of an improvement. Technically it's been 3 years since the first, which is not a long time. So from a technological standpoint, and this price range, the difference can not be much!

to be faire the guy in second vid completely fucks up the direction half of the time....
anybody that has Kinect one and actually use it can already tell it is miles away....
it's like comparing CRT TV with an LED/LCD.... yeah sure it still shows the same picture but come on.... if you don't see the difference... some one needs to have either the eyes or the head checked....

lol that's kinda harsh!

But then again, if what you're saying is true, wouldn't that be against the user friendliness of the product? I mean if you have to follow ''instructions'' just to get it working right?

Instructions seemed very very simple to follow, but the guy still screwed it up. Most likely trying to focus too much on the TV images of his face/head and talking to the MS rep.

Wow I was expecting it to give him a little bit of hair cause you can tell that he's not 100% bald but damn! That's a lot of hair haha

http://www.xboxygen.com/Medias/Videos/15617-Kinect-sur-Xbox-One-video-de-la-reconnaissance-faciale?lang=fr