NYT Article on Kinect

[SoulBlazer]

I know there's a topic here allready about the upcoming Microsoft Kinect, but I saw this New York Times article about it tonight which was quite good and offered some interesting background information and thoughts on it.

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111114/with-kinect-microsoft-aims-for-a-game-changert?mod=family-love_money

[xg4bx]

I know there's a topic here allready about the upcoming Microsoft Kinect, but I saw this New York Times article about it tonight which was quite good and offered some interesting background information and thoughts on it.

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111114/with-kinect-microsoft-aims-for-a-game-changert?mod=family-love_money

 

n4g or gamefaqs must have linked to the article because there's an awful lot of fanboys in an article on yahoo finance.

[HammR25]

I love Big Brother

 

Microsoft upgrades and rewires the Kinect brain every 24 hours and can send updates to Xbox systems via the Internet when it chooses. Kinect recognizes someone it has seen before by body shape, so there's no need to log into the system each time a game is played. It knows your left hand from your right and can distinguish between two players even when their paths cross.

 

If players have similar builds, Kinect tries to glean differences in their facial features, haircuts, body movements and clothing color. And if identically dressed twins initially stump the system, it will ask each to say something.

 

"If it can't disambiguate, we say, 'Please tell us if you are A or B,'" says Alex Kipman, incubation director for Xbox 360. "Then, you end up with the equivalent of a different bar code."