So I guess Dance Central won't support any of this business.
But yeah, no menu navigation while sitting is pretty dumb!
But yeah, no menu navigation while sitting is pretty dumb!
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IGN: Kinect only works/functions when you're standing up
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Scalemail Ted
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Now that I think about it there was one demo they did on stage, however, it could of been "faked." The demo they had for the video calling. The girl on the other end was seated in a large chair (If I recall correctly). As she moved the camera would follow her around.
NullPointer
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Maybe this is why they had everybody stand for an hour at the Cirque de Soleil thing? Gotta condition those Kinect muscles.
You can also try and put it below the TV..larvi said:
Put the sensor bar below the set in front, or with some 3M/mounting tape...if there's some space..
Also depends on the distance and the size of your TV.
Like the time I took mine to a friend's house and he had a 4:3 TV...but was like 70+ inches..above the TV was just impossible to reach.. :lol ..putting it below/in front worked like a charm...played for 12+ hours straight. (Brawl, Wario, Wii Sports)
I hadn't seen any of the vids showing Kinect being used in any fashion while sitting.
Seriously.
Imagine watching a movie.
Kinect sees something move.
Are you:
Reaching for your drink
Stretching
Getting up to take a shit
Pointing your remote at the receiver to adjust the volume
Kinect has no way of knowing. Kinect trying to do something and getting it wrong would be more infuriating than Kinect demanding you speak to it ("XBAWKS, PWN NOOBS") or stand up front and center.
I guess what I'm saying is that this shouldn't have been news to anyone, but the fact that it is is hilarious.
It's an evacuation chair for handicapped people.
If someone is in a wheel chair at the top of a tall building, and there's a fire, how do they get out? (Elevators are either not running, not a good idea, or commandeered by fire crews.)
This chair allows you to transfer a seated person to an upright position quickly and safely, and carry them down the stairwell. Or depending on the stairwell, the evacuation chair, and the condition of the person, you can simply use the evacuation chair and roll them down the stairwell safely since it's wheels are designed for it.
Simpler model in use:
Seriously.
Imagine watching a movie.
Kinect sees something move.
Are you:
Reaching for your drink
Stretching
Getting up to take a shit
Pointing your remote at the receiver to adjust the volume
Kinect has no way of knowing. Kinect trying to do something and getting it wrong would be more infuriating than Kinect demanding you speak to it ("XBAWKS, PWN NOOBS") or stand up front and center.
I guess what I'm saying is that this shouldn't have been news to anyone, but the fact that it is is hilarious.
People lolling at that chair seem to not know what it is.LiquidMetal14 said:
It's an evacuation chair for handicapped people.
If someone is in a wheel chair at the top of a tall building, and there's a fire, how do they get out? (Elevators are either not running, not a good idea, or commandeered by fire crews.)
This chair allows you to transfer a seated person to an upright position quickly and safely, and carry them down the stairwell. Or depending on the stairwell, the evacuation chair, and the condition of the person, you can simply use the evacuation chair and roll them down the stairwell safely since it's wheels are designed for it.
Simpler model in use:
MikeE21286
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Captain Tuttle
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Well, no Kinect on the crapper for me.
Graphics Horse
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Darklord said:
The original Natal promo showed someone sitting down while driving come to think of it.
barkers crest said:
that phone call was so lame. were they trying to ape Apple?
I was even doubting if it was her twin and if it wasn't just her with a wig in a prerecorded conversation. So awkwardly scripted and acted. Who the hell thought that was gonna be a good idea?
As for these camera based technologies, people seem to forget there's a hell of a lot to be said for tactile feedback. Driving game with no controller? Are you nuts? Feeling the rumble, the tension of the wheel or brakes (or equivalent interpretations) are part of the thrill and skill.
As for sitting down and the camera confusing your legs with the couch - well.... why would it need your legs? Even if it thought you were a really big blob, surely it should still track your hand?
Not that you would want to use your hand of course. Using digital controllers are a hell of a lot more precise and efficient and involve less effort. Hell using the 360 controller to pause is less effort than a regular DVD/TV remote cos I don't need to point at anything.
Voice control? :lol when a friend comes into the room and talks to me, I don't interrupt them to say "xbox pause" I just press a button.
These things are nice gimmicks and tech demos but I can't see them being much real use.
Bel Marduk
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:lol :lol :lol at the Prof Xavier pic.
Throwaway123456789
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Vizion28 said:
Lord Error said:
Mama Robotnik said:
Come on guys. Portable DVD and CD players and PSP and GameCube all has the disc fastened to the hardware in some fashion. The two former and the gamecube has the disc pushed down onto a spinning device for example.
Any console or computer or dvd player or blu ray player or cd player with a trey will scratch the disc like hell if you move it during disc reading. Its just that simple.
DO NOT MOVE THE FUCKING CONSOLE YOU DUMBASS!
Alx
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Scalemail Ted said:
That's not really related to the body tracking, all motorized cameras can do that (there is at least a Logitech one, that's been on the market for some time), since they can detect faces. All they have to do is move to keep the detected face in the center of the image.
Equus Bellator Apex
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Kintaco said:Free when you Pre-Order Kinect at Gamestop
CrushDance
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You're missing the point. With the Wii you can play music, watch slideshows, PS3? Bluetooth anything will work. 360? Controller and media controllers. Now with Natal...Kinect being pushed as "the" controller for Xbox's future, you'd expect it to work sitting down. What, are they going to bundle Xbox 3 with remote controllers as well?Spriig said:
The more this thread goes on the less believable this sounds.
Yeah..it was still a weird demo..Scalemail Ted said:
Her sister seems to not have a clue of what the hell was going on, and yet she was sitting in front of an Xbox 360 with Kinect with her sister touching and making all the choices which was more weird, why the sister at E3 wasn't the one that demoed the whole camera tracking thing (unless I just forgot about it).....and then, they quickly talked about how that chat-service was also going to work with Live Messenger..
ahh I can see why the menu manipulation would be an issue.
I must be the only one who doesn't care for that lol.
I'm most interested for the games, I expected I would have to stand up for it.
Zombie James said:
hell nah but I'll keep my racing for GT
Also alot of things can change in 5 months.
Check it works with black people now! Didn't you guys see the conference?!?!
REMEMBER CITADEL
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FnordChan said:
Professor FC
:lol
Anyway, that shouldn't be too hard to fix, just ignore all the skeletal data below the waist. In fact, this sounds so strange (and it's IGN we're talking about) that I'll wait for an official confirmation. "We've been told"... By whom?
phisheep
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larvi said:
When this happens to me it is always because the edge of the TV is obscuring the LEDs on the sensor bar - top of TV is curved and the thing tends to slide backwards (and point upwards too). Sitting the sensor bar on two blobs of blutack and lining it just a touch proud of the TV screen surround fixed it permanently.
lostinblue
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PS2's, GC's and PS3's do it just fine too. Oh, and Xbox 1.FoxHimself said:
regular PC DVD drives, regular laptop pc drives... do it just fine, and hell; people have managed to repair their X360's who did that by polishing up some darned part... Microsoft could and should have solved this by now.
And the issue is not just "moving it" most consoles take a fall somewhere along their lives while playing a game, either pushed by the cables, a dog passing by... whatever. and when that happens not only do you want your console to endure it, you also want your darn game to do so.
PistolGrip
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damn, owned.belvedere said:
Zombie James said:
What's on the TV screen doesn't even look like what's in the room... The lamp is definitely different. Unless...
You can calibrate it sitting down, but to play you must stand. ah
DeaconKnowledge
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Zoink said:I dont see the problem. Everyone has one of these right?
How hilariously cruel. :lol :lol
Graphics Horse
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AndyD said:
Oh the original promo was faked, they admitted as much themselves, that's fine. I was just pointing out they'd been advertising it since the beginning.
Vizion28 said:
Yeah it should be... as a flat image at least. there's a few games which scan in images or faces already. I think someone pointed out it scanned the part which was covered by his hand, which wouldn't work obviously.
BenjaminBirdie
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FnordChan said:
Professor FC
:lol :lol :lol
SOOOOOO PERFECT.
DidntKnowJack
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:lol
God. I'm sorry. I don't want to sound trollish, because honestly I was never on board with Kinect. But holy shit, they better fix this or they're going to lose a whole lot of potential sales.
God. I'm sorry. I don't want to sound trollish, because honestly I was never on board with Kinect. But holy shit, they better fix this or they're going to lose a whole lot of potential sales.
GitarooMan
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So we're supposed to play games like Joyride always standing up? Lol
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