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[Major Nelson]

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

 

[HawksWinStanley]

So i have to print out codes now?

What?

 

[Vizzeh]

Haha, nice.

I'm liking this new trend of marketing by way of very short videos and gifs.

Yeah because they know they can get to the point with their message and we will debate it to death + the news sites will cover it

 

[alr1ght]

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

i hope this is legit. i really do.

 

[Bgamer90]

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

Haha, wow. Nice "Easter Egg".

 

[Timu]

This will come in handy for all the Xbox Live Gift Cards I currently have.

 

[Digital-Hero]

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

Bwahahaha!

I'm sure he did that intentionally though. I'd be scared if it was the keys of the kingdom or some crap.

 

[Plywood]

Hey, that's actually pretty cool.

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

This is an incredible development.

 

[Levyne]

So i have to print out codes now?

hopefully you can just bring up a code on your phone/tablet screen and scan from that. maybe?

 

[Willy Wanka]

I've gotten quite proficient at putting in codes with the chatpad over the years but this is certainly a nice little time saver.

 

[dallow_bg]

I repeat: please allow phone apps to do this too.

 

[tokyostomp]

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

 

[Dreams-Visions]

dope.

of little practical value for me atm, as I've only redeemed maybe 5 codes all generation. but maybe they'll make more QC code promos? Perhaps on taco bell drink cups and shit like that.

 

[Jamie OD]

hopefully you can just bring up a code on your phone/tablet screen and scan from that. maybe?

It should work like that. Other QR codes can.

 

[b0neshank]

Xbox scan code....on this 3 foot long Gamestop receipt for day one horse armor DLC.

 

[Vizzeh]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

You can now consider yourself "Detective Gaf"

 

[jordan0386]

Slight confirmation Xone comes with a two week trial?

Or am I old.

 

[keit4]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

This man deserves a tag.

 

[Jhn]

I think that this might be the first kinect functionality that I find genuinely useful. Nice little touch, Microsoft!

 

[Valnen]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

Oh man, talk about a woops moment for Microsoft hahaha.

That said, this is really cool! I hope the Playstation Camera does the same thing.

 

[Raist]

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

Well I guess it's still faster to type a 25digits code than use Kinect 2.0 then.

 

[R3TRO]

Nice, I usually buy digital codes from Amazon but this is cool.

 

[Delryk]

This thru smartglass would be even better..... but i like.

 

[fantomena]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

Admins, give this person a tag.

 

[Five]

Yo, if I still bought digital goods in an analogue fashion, this would be amazing.

Online store is where it's at, though.

 

[Tashi]

Not gonna lie, that's pretty awesome.

And nice shit Tokyostomp lol

 

[NullPointer]

Admins, give this person a QR Code.

Fixed.

 

[andromeduck]

did they kill their own QR replacement?

looks like this would be the perfect application

 

[BearPawB]

I hate inputting codes. Been asking for this for years

 

[Danneee]

If I ever used pre paid cards that would be the way I would want to redeem them.

 

[AlexMogil]

Larry, from one bald dude to another: just shave it off.

Time to go full Allard. M Nelson

L Hyrb

Lurb

 

[kodecraft]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

Really cool. So from here, GAF lets find the Easter eggs in these announcements coming up.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

Cool feature

 

[tehPete]

This is convenient though it seems like a feature you should discover through the Kinect setup / tutorial, given that QR scanners are nothing new. Posting it like this seems a little like a desperate attempt for any positive publicity, but you can't begrudge them that at this stage.

 

[Tashi]

This is convenient though it seems like a feature you should discover through the Kinect setup / tutorial, given that QR scanners are nothing new. Posting it like this seems a little like a desperate attempt for any positive publicity, but you can't begrudge them that at this stage.

You just see things how you want to see them bro.

 

[StevePharma]

Xbox One unboxing videos are now becoming very very interesting.

Agree that tokyostomp should get a QR-code tag.

 

[B1gg_Randall]

Now this I like.

 

[Hydranockz]

Really handy feature. I assume Kinect could have read that tag off, say, a smartphone screen too, right?

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Pretty damn neat.

): what about digital codes though?

 

[stump sock]

that was pretty much the single best use of a Kinect I've ever seen. Neat.

Pretty damn neat.

): what about digital codes though?

print them out lmao

 

[opticalmace]

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

Thread just went up to 11.

 

[Briarios]

Kinectimals for the original Kinect scanned codes, too - but they were larger since the resolution wasn't as good. Its just a feature - any camera could do it. But, more features are better than less.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

I just stole Major's 14 Day XBL Gold Trial....

Hope he isn't salty about it

Wow, 720/10.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Here

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/A7DC...p4?versionId=Op0rBfIy3SzucGI8oqBWve.yfhRjE6Ki

Thanks, but it still won't load for me.

Firefox? Had the same problem, this worked for me:

https://support.mozilla.org/de/questions/961627

Yep. Thanks for the link, doing the changes now and hoping for the best...

 

[Silky]

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

You're a sport.

 

[Caayn]

Nice easter egg. Props for the Major and an extra vote for the QR tag for tokyostomp.

 

[borghe]

I know. Was up to 3 pages before I tried.

Phones can scan the QR but they don't link to the Xbox site and auto populate...yet

QR codes are just encoded data. So XBL QR codes just have the XBL sub serial number encoded inside of them (based on what you posted). Based on that QR code there is no way for it to automatically go to xbox.com to redeem. To do that it would actually need to have the encoded URL as the actual data.. i.e. http://www.xbox.com/redeem?code=1234-5678-9012-1234-5678

 

[PAULINK]

More like disappointed that it took this long for someone to redeem it.

This is awesome.

 

[Eusis]

I remember reading about this beforehand, but I have to admit this arguably is enough reason to get a camera with a system... though now I wonder if their apps will do the same thing on phones and tablets?

 

[Twin Tails]

that was fast