Kinect made gaming so much better. I miss it. It was very underrated
FomFrady95 on
My wife and I went camping this weekend and in their visitor center they had this display full of sand. You could move the sand and there was a projector that would change the color of the sand to mimick how water would run on the new terrain. So if I dug a one inch path in the sand the projector would recognize the path and put a blue light on that sand to make it look like a river.
When I looked at how they were watching my movements there was a Kinect. So the Kinect was monitoring my movements in the sand, judging depth and elevation of the sand and then telling the projector where to and not to put water. Blew my mind.
Shadow_Strike99 on
Super hot take to some, but I think Xbox swung the pendulum way too much the other way in their course correction with the kinect.
I get why they did it, because the kinect left a huge stink on Xbox from the late 360 era and Xbox one reveal, but canning it entirely I feel was too much. They really should have made it a niche optional accessory for those who wanted it, because it was decent for what it did. They should have done what Playstation does with the ps4 and ps5 camera or vr just make it a optional accessory for enthusiasts to use, without shoving it down everyone’s throats who didn’t want it.
I remember when they launched the Xbox one s, you had to order this adapter for the kinect but going about that was so cumbersome and clunky for those who had a kinect so they didn’t do it at all.
Imaginary_Sun312 on
I really enjoyed the voice commands, i think ME used them really well. They should put a mic in the controller.
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Kinect made gaming so much better. I miss it. It was very underrated
My wife and I went camping this weekend and in their visitor center they had this display full of sand. You could move the sand and there was a projector that would change the color of the sand to mimick how water would run on the new terrain. So if I dug a one inch path in the sand the projector would recognize the path and put a blue light on that sand to make it look like a river.
When I looked at how they were watching my movements there was a Kinect. So the Kinect was monitoring my movements in the sand, judging depth and elevation of the sand and then telling the projector where to and not to put water. Blew my mind.
Super hot take to some, but I think Xbox swung the pendulum way too much the other way in their course correction with the kinect.
I get why they did it, because the kinect left a huge stink on Xbox from the late 360 era and Xbox one reveal, but canning it entirely I feel was too much. They really should have made it a niche optional accessory for those who wanted it, because it was decent for what it did. They should have done what Playstation does with the ps4 and ps5 camera or vr just make it a optional accessory for enthusiasts to use, without shoving it down everyone’s throats who didn’t want it.
I remember when they launched the Xbox one s, you had to order this adapter for the kinect but going about that was so cumbersome and clunky for those who had a kinect so they didn’t do it at all.
I really enjoyed the voice commands, i think ME used them really well. They should put a mic in the controller.