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Shiken on 02 May 2016

It became a fantastic peripheral for me when I noticed it was windy out when I opened my windows. The thing seriously did great at keeping my mail I had piled up from flying all over the place.



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Low78wagon on 02 May 2016
Shiken said:
It became a fantastic peripheral for me when I noticed it was windy out when I opened my windows. The the seriously did great at keeping my mail I had piled up from flying all over the place.

LOL. Dats funny



Puppyroach on 02 May 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
Kinect is a great accessory, just too expensive and needed more notable content.

Agreed. A 50$ pricetag with some partypack of games would be what it needed.



Mr Puggsly on 02 May 2016
Puppyroach said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Kinect is a great accessory, just too expensive and needed more notable content.

Agreed. A 50$ pricetag with some partypack of games would be what it needed.

Exactly, if they could put that same tech in a smaller cheaper device it would be more appealing.

Kinect Sports Rivals is also a pretty good collection of games but oddly enough never got bundled.

MS should make an effort to bring more mobile games to Kinect as well. Given some of those translate well to Kinect.



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SvennoJ on 02 May 2016

But how do you peak at his screen or accidentally bump his controller to get ahead. Not the same at all :p
I guess you can still distract him with 'hey what's that movement behind you'



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TheSting on 02 May 2016
SvennoJ said:
But how do you peak at his screen or accidentally bump his controller to get ahead. Not the same at all :p
I guess you can still distract him with 'hey what's that movement behind you'

Or just play fair and square 😂 



jason1637 on 02 May 2016

I have my kinect plugged in but haven't used it in a while. When they bring Cortana to Xbox ill be using that.



baloofarsan on 03 May 2016

Don Mattrick was a visionary. All the things he wanted with the Xbox One will come true - and everyone will think of it as "normal"! He was ahead of the times. I do not have a XB1 but the big draw for me to get one was the Kinect features. I do admit that it was very much USA-centric.



vivster on 03 May 2016

I still have to use the old way with a second monitor, a camera and Chaturbate.



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ArnoldRimmer on 03 May 2016

The problem with Kinect is its price tag, which stems from the problem that it's not a simple webcam.

What people like Kinect for most are two simple sensors found in every simple webcam: Microphone(s) and digital camera. Those two sensors are perfectly sufficient for things like voice control, Skype/videochat, face recognition etc.

Those two sensors/technologies are cheap, Microsoft could easily manufacture a tiny yet high-quality webcam for Xbox One for like 20-30$ that would allow for Kinect's most beloved features.

But unfortunately Kinect includes expensive depth-sensing technology as well, which makes Kinect clumsy and is responsible for probably 80% of the manufacturing costs.
On the one hand, that technology is what makes Kinect special, but at the same time, it has become the least-used feature since the initial "your body is the controller"-hype.

So Microsoft should offer a simple and cheap webcam for Xbox One, as a cheap alternative to Kinect for all those users who don't need the expensive yet hardly used depth-sensing technology.