Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Official Thread - Page 11

I doubt that it does since the Kinect seems auto sense the room and tilt itself.

My set is about 6' high too and I wonder if it will work better at knee height or head height.

As it stands now, I have my PSEYE on the top middle of the screen and it performs well up there, though EYE Pet requires the camera to be at knee height.

I hope we don't have to move the Kinect to different locations for different games.

I am very much looking forward to the Kinect and getting the family (from my 5 year old to my 75 year old father in law) all together playing it.

Doubt it. No worries, the sensor has a motorized tilt that will adjust to your playspace.

I'm in the middle of watching this right now. I was on the fence about getting it, but the more I see, the more I want to play. I know that my niece will love the kinectimals (sp). It is definitely in its infancy but shows a lot of room for improvement.

The more I saw the more bored I got (you can even see the guys sitting in the background yawning) yet I know I will buy one as I am a sucker for new tech...

Oh I knew he wasn't in the NBA. I just wasn't sure if that was his actual son. My post was laughing at the fact they named him as being the actual BB player.

BTW Velcro works just fine with Kinect if anyone is using a micro Rear Projo. I am purchasing a new display when I return but currently on a 60in XBR LCOS. I will definately look into getting the mount when I return.

I'm looking forward to next week! I just wish there was more hands on of the current unit and software in the media.

According to the internet (and you know how inaccurate they can be) are saying the nda is up monday so you will see reviews then.

No surprise - Dance Central is going to get the highest review marks. I'm not really expecting glowing reviews for anything else.

So have they announced any games that a person who actually plays video games would want? ie. a game that uses the gamepad +kinect integration?

Depends if Steel Batallion is going to be that type of game. They announced it is Kinect compatible. No one knows if that means gamepad +Kinect but will we find out when they release the info.

Thanks! I will see what I can do cause I don't want to mount it on the wall.

dja2k

I'm sold.

Does it come with the malnourished asian woman?

Nah, I've already looked into that.

Does anybody know if the kinect will be able to do the minority report hand waving for the dashboard? I don't particularly care for any games that will use the kinect. But I will get it if I can navigate the dashboard without a regular controller.

it's been discussed a number of times. you can use your hand or you can use voice shortcuts. there's a developer video somewhere (can't find it at the moment where they go over some voice shortcuts).

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awww. that's a better deal than preorders and a big advantage for new yorkers...

still can't find the developer vid with the kinect shortcuts. i assume there'll be a webpage just like with windows shortcuts. i love shortcuts (win + E, anyone?).

I assumed they're using the same voice recognition engine that is in Windows 7 and MS Office. which means you have to be more deliberate in your speech pacing and enunciation.

I wonder if it has voice training lessons like in windows. that made the recognition in windows much better over time. the more you talk in the training, the better the system gets at recognizing your voice. unfortunately, in windows at least, that means separate profiles for each person so everybody that wanted to use the voice system would have to training windows for their voice.

the guy in the video did short barking bursts of audio (which is why I think he has a stuttering problem too). people who speak like this also tend to add fillers to their speech as well using words like "umm" or "like" to fill in gaps.

I wish MS could license the dragon naturally speaking voice recognition engine. Now that is some stellar technology. I could be far more natural with the dragon software for dictating than with MS's software. Though as a med student, I wished for more accuracy since a lot of terms we use are very unconventional and specific. I constantly had to train windows/dragon for simple terms like subcutaneous which became super tedious after a few hundred medical words.

for anyone buying it this week saw Targets ad was buy 2 get 1 free on all games, Kinect + 3 games for $250 isn't too bad

Very good. Much better than the BestBuy in store offer. where you only get a $20 gift card with the purchase of 3 Kinect Games. Either way I will be cancelling my 3 Kinect game preorders from BestBuy.com and either be looking at Target or purchasing in store at BestBuy.

Does anyone anticipate any shortages in stores like BBy or Target. I am on the fence but leaning picking this up.

Considering its sold out at Amazon, I would say yes. I would also guess some people are going to try and flip it on ebay. Looks like supply and demand are going to be out of whack here in the beginning.

Cool. Thanks. I'm gonna check with my local BBy (that's were I planned on heading to) and see if I can pre-order it.

I read that Best Buy ran out of pre-orders as well. I'd assume that they'll have a shipment that they'll be selling in addition to the pre-orders, but might be worth giving them a call first.

Best Buy didn't "run out" per se, it's just that the preorder window has ended. On the back of my preorder case it explicitly says it can be sold until 10/30.