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>Well that and gamers throwing a fit because they didn't want their gaming console to be useful to their parents and other non gamers ... I think it's worth re

>Well that and gamers throwing a fit because they didn't want their gaming console to be useful to their parents and other non gamers ... I think it's worth revisiting the announcement. Gamers were upset because the launch presentation of the new console spent very little time talking about games. That presentation was followed by a Q&A with the notorious "we have a console for people without reliable internet, it's the xbox 360" quip. The "peasants get no privacy" attitude really felt like it was just part of a bigger "the peasants will buy what we say" attitude. I'm with you on the utility of the basic concept. I actually really enjoyed using the Kinect to control Netflix. There was a good concept buried in the xbone vision that I would still like to use today - but Microsoft fumbled the execution tremendously badly and in particular, did so in a way that did not show "good stewardship to gaming." On that note, the Kinect almost ended Rare as a studio...and the cool media features introduced with the Xbox One are now as dead as the Kinect.

sleepybrett 4y ago
I have a pile of kinects I built up by snagging them out of goodwills and other charity shops. It's still cool as fuck tech. I mostly use the original 360 version because there are open source sdks for them that run on pretty much every platform. I think there are a few half baked K2 sdks that are open source these days but I haven't looked. They are great for interactive art projects. Tons of use in the computer assisted art space.
- mustacheemperor 4y ago
  Totally, the Kinect was the first device I ever “hacked” with and really was what got me into programming. It’s a lot of fun to mess with to this day, when I last pulled mine out I was tinkering with full body tracking for SteamVR. It's too bad the K2 never got the same robust software platform since the hardware had some interesting capabilities, I recall the project I was working with said it had some advantages in the scanning range but the software was too unreliable to recommend it. Is there anything like it available on the market new in box today? I recall the RealSense cameras seemed comparable but those are gone now. Golly. I still do miss being about to navigate Netflix titles by just swiping my hand in either direction. That really felt like the future made real and now it’s been discontinued for years.

sleepybrett 4y ago

I have a pile of kinects I built up by snagging them out of goodwills and other charity shops. It's still cool as fuck tech. I mostly use the original 360 version because there are open source sdks for them that run on pretty much every platform. I think there are a few half baked K2 sdks that are open source these days but I haven't looked. They are great for interactive art projects. Tons of use in the computer assisted art space.

mustacheemperor 4y ago
Totally, the Kinect was the first device I ever “hacked” with and really was what got me into programming. It’s a lot of fun to mess with to this day, when I last pulled mine out I was tinkering with full body tracking for SteamVR. It's too bad the K2 never got the same robust software platform since the hardware had some interesting capabilities, I recall the project I was working with said it had some advantages in the scanning range but the software was too unreliable to recommend it. Is there anything like it available on the market new in box today? I recall the RealSense cameras seemed comparable but those are gone now. Golly. I still do miss being about to navigate Netflix titles by just swiping my hand in either direction. That really felt like the future made real and now it’s been discontinued for years.