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Microsoft patent: Kinect to detect # of people in room, disable content if too many

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timetokill

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TimeEffect said:
Kinect built into 720, requires legitimate angle to enable content.

Problem, customer?
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Unless Microsoft wants to:
1) seriously improve the Kinect tech
and
2) deal with the massive negative PR when a family of 5 is told they have too big of a family to watch a movie together, even though a family of 4 is fine or whatever... or the situations where a pile of pillows "looks like" a person to the Kinect, or the myriad other problems that keep people from content they have probably paid for...

This is a patent that will lead to nothing significant.
 
PAULINK

PAULINK

I microwave steaks.
I hate the Kinect for movies. When I was watching Breaking bad on netflix, Jesse said stop and the kinect stopped the show over and over. I had to mute the scene in order to move on.
 
Z

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
Even if Microsoft could get it to work exactly like they wanted it to, it STILL would only result in people watching their content via some other means. All this will do is just scare people away from using your service.
 
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snoopeasystreet

Member
Sho_Nuff82 said:
*Turns Kinect around*

Problem MS?
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It'd probably require it to see at least one person before it'd play the content. That'd make it more difficult to game the system. Also, a wide angle kinect built into a TV would sort this out for good.

PAULINK said:
I hate the Kinect for movies. When I was watching Breaking bad on netflix, Jesse said stop and the kinect stopped the show over and over. I had to mute the scene in order to move on.
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I thought you needed to say "Xbox Stop"? Maybe it's confusing the words "bitch" or "Yo" for it.
 
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grimshawish

Banned
PAULINK said:
I hate the Kinect for movies. When I was watching Breaking bad on netflix, Jesse said stop and the kinect stopped the show over and over. I had to mute the scene in order to move on.
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This didn't actually happen...did it?
MS really should just bring out a tablet peripheral. Kinect don't work.
 
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shinobi602

Member
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onQ123

Member
well there is a up side to this you can now charge your friends $2 at the door to watch movies at your house & blame it on kinect.
 
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Bgamer90

Banned
PAULINK said:
I hate the Kinect for movies. When I was watching Breaking bad on netflix, Jesse said stop and the kinect stopped the show over and over. I had to mute the scene in order to move on.
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Never happened to me when watching media but I had something similar happen to me in Madden. One of the commentators said something and it caused an audible.
 
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pharmboy044

Member
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's their content and they can do what ever they want with it..........................................…
 
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AlphaTwo00

Member
You guys are seeing this wrong. MS is patenting it now to protect us from someone doing it. If they own the patent, no one else can do it without incurring the wrath of MS.

...or at least I'd like to think that's what they're doing.
 
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i-Lo

Member
badcrumble said:
Actually, if I buy a movie, it's mine, not theirs.
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No, you just buy the license to use it.

Regardless, if the implications of too people in the room causes license infringement then Microsoft can get fucked.

Also as a plasma owner, I'll almost never use my plasma in a "well lit room" and so not only will the device be less useful for me (unless the evolution in tech makes it effective even in low light).
 
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Bgamer90

Banned
AlphaTwo00 said:
You guys are seeing this wrong. MS is patenting it now to protect us from someone doing it. If they own the patent, no one else can do it without incurring the wrath of MS.

...or at least I'd like to think that's what they're doing.
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Interesting...
 
consoul

consoul

Member
On movie night, I'll have my friends hide behind pot plants or stand in the corner with a lampshade on their head.
 
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DTKT

Member
What if I sit on someone's lap? What if I'm shining a really bright light at myself, what if I'm sitting really far away, what if the Xbox is in another room, what if I'm streaming content?
 
Nemesis_

Nemesis_

Member
There would be so many ways to overcome this, I don't know why they are bothering. But it's embarrassing either way.
 
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sixghost

Member
DTKT said:
What if I sit on someone's lap? What if I'm shining a really bright light at myself, what if I'm sitting really far away, what if the Xbox is in another room, what if I'm streaming content?
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What if you slowly cool your body to room temperature and sit very still?
 
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i-Lo

Member
You guys may be joking now (and it'll probably never affect me because I mostly watch movies by myself or a friend) but this could become a serious issue. Feels unethical.
 
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