XBOX The Official KINECT Thread

[Frakistan]

You seriously have some issues, Frakistan

STFU or I'll AXE MURDER you.... HAHAhhah

the last video, which is the biggest fail, is for the Nintendo Wii not Kinect

Your avatar shows your state of mind....Do u need a smack to the head to stop dreaming and see that its for kinect??

lol frak nice videos!

Special one for you bro

 

[Chandoo]

awwwww, this is so sweet


A special boy and his Kinect

If you want to read a heartwarming story about a boy that has been diagnosed with Autism, his dad and their Kinect Sensor, then you have come to the right place:

So, when my son really wanted to try out Kinect, I was more than happy to oblige. He’s taken up to watching me play a lot of video games and tries to play some himself. Controllers for the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 do frustrate him and he has a lot of trouble controlling the characters on the screen using the peripherals, but he’s always willing to try and keep on practicing in getting better. As he tells me sometimes, “I want to play with you, Daddy.” so he’s pretty persistent in trying to get proficient with them.

Kinect is easy

What proceeded to happen was pretty amazing to me. Firing up Kinect Adventures, we tried out Rally Ball as our first game to play together. He jumped around and flailed his arms and legs in trying to punch the balls back to the blocks. It was pretty cool to see but the thing that really threw me for a loop was when the game ended. The game made my son the primary controller and seeing as I didn’t explain anything to him on how it works, I was ready to tell him to step out so I can go in and navigate through the menus.

for everyone

But, I decided to see if he could follow my directions and interact with the menus. I said hold out your hand and place it on the button. Without any hesitation, he put his hand up and moved it over the button on the screen and held it there until the circle animation finished, indicating the button has been pressed. After that initial coaching, he proceeded to move around in the menus without much vocal cues from me. I just stood there and was flabbergasted by what I just saw. Microsoft’s design team did such a good job at creating a user interface with Kinect that my son was able to go through each menu to initiate the next round in Rally Ball. It’s intuitive enough that I spent barely any time teaching my four year old special needs son how to go about the menu system.

Side by side Kinecting

Throughout my hour session with my son by my side, I was constantly impressed by how easy he could figure out each game and play them without getting fed up. He knew how to flap, glide, and move around in Space Pop just by me saying, “Flap your arms to fly.” once. A few moves around the living room let him figure out that the Avatar in the game mimicked his movements as well in moving in and out. With 20,000 Leaks, he had no trouble figuring out that you place your hand or foot over the leaks to close them. It was quite an exhilarating feeling to see him play all these little mini-games on his own with very minor coaching from me.

Kinect Father-and-son time

For the first time, I was able to play something with my son and not spend any time with him being frustrated on not being to do anything or have a character get stuck on the screen. He had fun with all the games and actually did well with them. The joy in his eyes as he was able to complete the tasks and move around in the menus is something I’ll never forget. [...] Even though I haven’t found a launch game that I’m interested in spending a lot of time with alone, I know that I’m able to spend some great time playing along side my son and see him thoroughly enjoying his time on a console.While he still struggles in communicating, I know there’s one thing he can do without having to deal with any of the frustrations Autism has brought upon in his life. And for me, that’s worth much more than the $150 I spent in picking up the peripheral.

(A different father and his son, but it gives you an impression with how much fun you can have when you dress up in red, and Kinect!)

 

[Magma]

Here's something even more cute:

Report: Kinect Only Cost $56 To Make

The Xbox 360's fancy motion-sensing camera Kinect may cost you $149, but according to a report from UBM Tech Insights, it costs Microsoft a whole lot less.

UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was that each of the cameras costs Microsoft approximately $56, of which the single biggest expenditure is Israeli company PrimeSense's "reference system" of cameras, microphones and processor, which clocks in at $17.


When Microsoft said it would be selling every single Kinect at a profit, it sure wasn't kidding.


We've asked Microsoft to comment on the report, and will update if we hear back.


Kinect's BOM roughly $56, teardown finds [EE|Times]

 

[Mac Ten]

^^^ Yeah i read that yesterday their making a huge profit but this also means that they will lower the prices very soon, their just trying to make a big profit before the hype cools down and then they will lower the prices.

 

[Xenium]

Your avatar shows your state of mind....Do u need a smack to the head to stop dreaming and see that its for kinect??

Well... i thought "Kevin Butler" said Nintendo's handgun!

And we all know you are a retard so nothin taken personally here

 

[Chandoo]

1m Kinect Sold in 10 days US only

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has sold more than 1 million of its new hands-free Kinect gaming systems in the first 10 days since launch, putting it on track to beat its target of 5 million sales by the end of the year.

The world's largest software company is hoping the Kinect will help revitalize sales of its Xbox game console this holiday shopping season and counter competing motion-based gaming systems from Nintendo Co, which makes the Wii, and Sony Corp, which introduced its Move product two months ago.

"It's a strong start," said Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft's game unit, in a telephone interview on Monday. "Consumers are loving it."

The Kinect -- a sensing device you plug into the Xbox which allows you to play games just by moving your body and speaking commands -- is priced at $150 for a standalone unit and $300 bundled with a 4 gigabyte Xbox console.

It went on sale in U.S. stores November 4, although many customers had pre-ordered units, likely causing a spike in early sales.

More than 30,000 U.S. stores are selling Kinect in the United States, including branches of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Target Corp, GameStop Corp and online at Amazon.com. It went on sale on November 10 in Europe and is due to go on sale in Asia on November 18.

 

[saadaziz]

1m Kinect Sold in 10 days US only

man thats good so developers might actually get on the kinect train i am anxiously awaiting for it to come to lahore so i can have a first day purchase

 

[CerebralTiger]

 

[Mac Ten]

KINECT Hack creates worlds greatest shadow puppet ( video )

 

[CerebralTiger]

^ Okay, THAT was amazing!

Youtube version:

A few more of these fascinating hacks, and I may eventually give in to Kinect.


And wait, there's more:

 

[Mac Ten]

WOW, Kinect Homebrew could be very awesoms and would definitely give it a much bigger edge over MOVE.

 

[saadaziz]

ign has given the thumbs up to kinect and are more exciting about it than the move

 

[CerebralTiger]

 

[saadaziz]

1) do you need to update xbox 360 to use kinect
2)can you use cracked games with the update to play kinect games

thats it ;p

 

[Mac Ten]

not the right place to ask but ill answer, for the 1st 1 the answer is YES for the 2nd 1 the answer is NO, not until LT+ comes out.

 

[Frakistan]

Kinect So Good Microsoft Has To Pay People To Play It

So you guys must have read the headlines at microsft financed websites that how suceesful the kinect launch was in japan, well reality paints a different picture my friends

Website BusyDizzys has found a few problems with the photographs of microsofts "successful" launch of its kinect in japan, not only have they published details of one of the people hired to stand in line but also photos of the kinect launch at other stores showing no people at all, so it would seem that ms had carefully staged managed its launch with the emphasis on "staged".

Read all about the big scam

Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect has predictably turned into a marketing farce of epic proportions.

One eager gamer, Microsoft would have people believe, queued for hours to be the first in line for the device as “I wanted to be the first in Japan to get one!”

Unfortunately, 2ch recognised the man from a previous “this product is so amazing people are queuing all night for it” shill piece – that time the same man was interviewed for the Japanese release of the iPhone, obligingly saying “Well, it’s a worldwide thing isn’t it? You just have to ride the big wave!”

He also helped with manufacturing a sense of popularity on the launch of the iPad

For this he became known as “Big Wave.” In fact, on his homepage he identifies himself as “Butch,” and helpfully lists his occupation as “sakura” – i.e. rent-a-crowd

Just how much of the queue outside Yodobashi Camera was hired for the benefit of cameras is not clear, though the PR stunt soon backfired as 2ch and non-corporate gaming sites began to ridicule Microsoft for having to go to such lengths – although TV and gaming rags obediently reported a packed launch event in central Akihabara.

the source link includes photos of the first "buyer" doing his job for apple at previous events as well as REAL photos of the launch at the actual akiba shops.

This dude above is at kinect launch and he is the one who admitted to being paid to attend the apple iphone event


This comes hot on the heels of relevations that ms were paying people to make posts on certain forums promoting how popular kinect demo units were in stores only for photographers to find kinect demo units utterly deserted for hours on end, although luckily the photographers did get some great shots of crowds of people in the stores but sadly for ms the crowds were playing ps3 gt5 demo units (and a few playing on a mario 25th wii demo unit) not kinect.

ppl at the gran tursimo stand in a random store

ppl at the gran turismo and 25th mario stand at the same store

the lonely person at the kinect stand at the same store

photos and details in the source link.

http://busydizzys.com/index.php/2010/11/15/kinect-so-good-microsoft-has-to-pay-people-to-play-it

 

[Shyber]

Had my first go at Kinect last night. Extremely gimmicky, loads of potential and solid fun. I might not get it for the Xbox but as the homebrew scene matures, I'll get it for my PC. It's definitely fascination tech specially for UI control. With a powerful PC, perhaps they may use it for more advance purposes.

 

[arafat]

i'll get my connect next month inshallah only buying it for dance central

 

[Majawar]

Had my first go at Kinect last night. Extremely gimmicky, loads of potential and solid fun. I might not get it for the Xbox but as the homebrew scene matures, I'll get it for my PC. It's definitely fascination tech specially for UI control. With a powerful PC, perhaps they may use it for more advance purposes.

I was also able to check it at stop....The interface is awesome...PLUS speech feature makes it more sweeter...I was quite amazed at the detection of object by the device......So far games played Sonic Race plus some MS Official Mini Games....Will wait to see the types of games that will release on it...

* Imaging fighting games like SF on it *

 

[Shyber]

* Imaging fighting games like SF on it *

You're not the first one. Fighters Uncaged is the name of the game. Score 1/10 from Edge