Kinect

[Becky]

Who's got it and what do you think of it?

I recently got it the other day as an early christmas present off Sean. :wub:

So far i've got Kinect Adventures and Dance Central and both of these games are incredibly awesome! I've just finished playing Dance Central then with my housemate Linz and we're both knackered (yes we are unfit) but i love the bit where you get to freestyle and then it shows you your dancing moves afterwards...my dancing is horrific!!

I am really impressed with the Kinect so far and as i am abit of an achievement ***** i'm kinda loving all the achievements i have gained so far. wooo.

Now i'm going to rest my achey arms and legs for abit but more playing tomorrow, woo!

 

[Jack Fulham]

Redders will kinect with you.

 

[ajt09]

My fiancee is desperate to get it. But I think the plan is to kill me off by making me join in with the bits you just mentioned lol. Does look pretty funky though.

P.S. Any idea why my like button would disappear? Its just.....vanished

 

[Jay Pricey]

Probably getting Kinect for Christmas along with the keep fit game, sports and maybe adventures.

 

[Dunc]

It's rape! When do you wanna play online?

 

[Becky]

My fiancee is desperate to get it. But I think the plan is to kill me off by making me join in with the bits you just mentioned lol. Does look pretty funky though.

P.S. Any idea why my like button would disappear? Its just.....vanished

It is really good and definitely worth the money as it is a great investment. Sean outright refuses to play on Dance Central though, he'll only go on the Adventures game.

And i have no idea why your like button has disappeared, mine is still there. :\ ...odd.

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It's rape! When do you wanna play online?

can you play online together? I didn't know this! How does it work?

 

[StuW]

I have not got one, but i intend on getting on soon. It is a mix of the wii and Xbox, do it makes the 360 the best console going.
Played on PS3 Move, but the nunchucks are annoying, as are the Wii. Cant wait for the FIFA one, better move everything of value when I get it, as I have a habit of going OTT when playing Wii etc.

 

[ajt09]

I won't have a choice on dance central :'( If my posts suddenly stop, you know why lol. I may be wrong, but I think there's a racing game for it too? That looked pretty cool.

No worries bout button. Hopefully back on tomorrow. Prob just a glitch

 

[Dunc]

can you play online together? I didn't know this! How does it work?

Yeah you can play kinect adventures, you like, uno, hook it up to xbox live and like, play with friends, I can't remember, haven't been on it in like a week lol

 

[Billy]

I won't have a choice on dance central :'( If my posts suddenly stop, you know why lol. I may be wrong, but I think there's a racing game for it too? That looked pretty cool.

No worries bout button. Hopefully back on tomorrow. Prob just a glitch

Your Like button disappears once you've given out 15 likes in a day, I believe.

 

[Becky]

Yeah you can play kinect adventures, you like, uno, hook it up to xbox live and like, play with friends, I can't remember, haven't been on it in like a week lol

Ohhh right ok, cool! I don't have gold membership though only Sean does..might have to go on his account sometime and see what it's all about! lol

 

[Neall]

I heard if you are black it doesnt work with you, and that you need to be quite far away from the camera?

My fiancee is desperate to get it. But I think the plan is to kill me off by making me join in with the bits you just mentioned lol. Does look pretty funky though.

P.S. Any idea why my like button would disappear? Its just.....vanished

you get 25 likes(i think) a day

 

[ajt09]

Your Like button disappears once you've given out 15 likes in a day, I believe.

Thanks for headsup and giving me headsup Becky,. Christ, didn't know I did so many. Be more careful next time (A)

 

[Kris]

Wish you would stop going on about it Becky.

 

[Becky]

Wish you would stop going on about it Becky.

Haha, does someone wanna try it out? You can go on it next time you come down to Middlesbrough..which won't be a while i bet. :'(

 

[Raikan007]

Ps3 all the way... Move will be upgraded within 6 months.. watch this space!

on topic:

it looks pretty cool, I just dont play those type of childish games to be honest, will be fun for drinking games with mates at my apartment though...

 

[Becky]

Ps3 all the way... Move will be upgraded within 6 months.. watch this space!

on topic:

it looks pretty cool, I just dont play those type of childish games to be honest, will be fun for drinking games with mates at my apartment though...

Aw no, don't start off the ps3/xbox debate. lol.

I haven't seen what other games what you can get, but they aren't that childish, but if your drinking and playing the game, atleast u can't throw anything at the TV unlike the Wii and Playstation move...thing's could get messy. haha

 

[StuW]

Ps3 all the way... Move will be upgraded within 6 months.. watch this space!

on topic:

it looks pretty cool, I just dont play those type of childish games to be honest, will be fun for drinking games with mates at my apartment though...

Isn't that why anyone over the age of 17 bought the Wii, for drunken party games?



Jesus, just eralised I am online at the same time as Raikan for the first time

 

[MunchkinCurt]

i must admit i was blown away by the kinect cant wait for micheal jackson the experience with free molesting glove

 

[Nathan]

Microsoft is working to improve the accuracy of Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect so that it could detect finger movement and hand rotation, Eurogamer understands.
Microsoft's Kinect team is said to be working "very hard" on a switching or compression technology that will allow a greater amount of data to pass through Kinect to the Xbox 360 console.

Kinect features are dictated by firmware so that they can be added and upgraded over time.

The depth sensor used by Kinect is also dictated by firmware – it is currently set at a 30 frames
per second limit and a 320x240 resolution limit.

At a 640x480 resolution, however, Kinect could begin to detect fingers and hand rotation – an effective quadrupling of its accuracy.

The issue relates to the USB controller interface, Eurogamer was told. It is capable of around 35MB/s, but it only uses around 15/16MB/s.

This artificial limit is in place because multiple USB devices can be used at once on an Xbox 360. But Microsoft is working on a technology to allow greater throughput in this regard, Eurogamer understands.

If Microsoft achieves its goal it could double the spec of Kinect's depth camera with a simple dashboard update.

Microsoft had not responded to Eurogamer's request for comment before publication, but Digital Foundry's Rich Leadbetter described the potential accuracy improvement as "eminently doable".

Microsoft would need to "disable or lower throughput of game installs running from USB flash drives to free up additional bandwidth," Leadbetter said.

"All eminently doable though bearing in mind that Kinect 'only' needs 20MB/s for full res from both cameras.

"The resolution coming out of the depth camera via PC is indeed 640x480, but it is uncertain just how accurate the camera's sensor is.

"Additionally, processing four times as many depth pixels could slow things down more."
Last month Anton Mikhailov, a software engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment America's research and development department, told Eurogamer Sony turned down Kinect's 3D camera because of the limitations of the tech.

"In reality, the 3D cameras we surveyed and what Kinect ended up using, they're 320x240 resolution, so when you're talking about tracking fingers, or even tracking things like the rotations of your hand, you're working with 10x10 pixels," Mikhailov said.

"It's very hard to get anything useful out of it."
Mikhailov doubted Kinect's capacity to create a decent Star Wars game "because there are so many ambiguities, and it's nearly impossible to track the angles of your wrists".

If Microsoft's achieves its goal of improving Kinect's accuracy, however, Mikhailov could be proved wrong.