Microsoft showcases Kinect potential video

Published 31 October, 2011 Duration 1:15

Motion-sensing tech one year old.

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  • udat #1 7 months ago

    Threw up in my mouth a little bit...

  • CheesecakeBobby #2 7 months ago

    I had one eyebrow raised until I realised I was listening to a strings version of Where is My Mind by the Pixies, which automatically makes this awesome.

  • Progguitarist #3 7 months ago

    Another "potential" video.

  • Razz #4 7 months ago

    So much potential, so little delivery

  • RawNinjaKid #5 7 months ago

    LOL!

    Whatever happen to control free/body motion control Gaylo?! LOL!
    Edited by RawNinjaKid at 31/10/11 @ 11:07

  • Cjail #6 7 months ago

    Well your story is very compelling, Mr. Jackass, I mean Microsoft. So I'll just type it up on my invisible typewriter.

  • atrb79 #7 7 months ago

    "There's a car bomb in central DC! One wrong move and people will die!" "Chill out guys, I'm on it. Let me get my kinect"

  • TZac #8 7 months ago

    great potential...
    accuracy fail though...
    hopefully some good software and maybe an updated camera resolution to fix the issues.

  • subjectxen #9 7 months ago

    I don't mind Kinect, but I wouldn't want to rely on it to defuse a bomb.

  • anthonypappa #10 7 months ago

    i think potential is their magic word for this.

    i have the potential to become the new hugh heffner and build a playboy mansion here in scotland... you see?

  • rob_of_the_robots #11 7 months ago

    "There's a car bomb in central DC! One wrong move and people will die!" "Chill out guys, I'm on it. Let me get my kinect"

    Cue somebody walking in front of the camera.

  • jarek98 #12 7 months ago

    Yeah, right... I don't know - if anyone in Microsoft is serius about this, they have big problems... Some ideas in the trailer are ok (but these are not ideas, there are existing implementations). I just don't understand one thing - why screen and speakers? If we can pretend we touch something, we can pretend we see and hear something as well...
    Edited by jarek98 at 31/10/11 @ 12:26

  • Goodfella #13 7 months ago

    Yeah, why play a real piano or violin when you can play imaginary ones. That would work so well. *rolls eyes*

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #14 7 months ago

    To be fair that advert is a damn sight better than the shit we usually have to suffer from Microsoft. Especially that new one with the Tech-No dad!

    And they wonder why they don't have a great image....

  • Yuroko #15 7 months ago

    If I had to have brain surgery and I saw they had a Kinect set up in the theatre I would shit myself. Although, if I needed brain surgery I dare say I would have been shitting myself before hand.

    I've always seen the potential in Kinect but in application I have always been less than impressed. I like the fitness aspect that can be achieved, primarily when I have to move the couch out of the room to use the damn thing. I like the way the Kinect can hear what I'm saying, like when I'm screaming at it for being as responsive as a man in a coma.

    The Pixies song was great but the video just made me think, maybe they should make decent games that work before they try to use it as a precision engineering device or an air cello tool.

  • DavoTheDiv #16 7 months ago

    Ha Ha, I lol'd all over this. My kinect doesn't even sense me jumping half the time, don't think i'd trust it enough to defuse a bleedin bomb

  • The-Bodybuilder #17 7 months ago

    Like it or not, whichever marketing agency did this ad should do MSs other ads (read: Say no to Tech-No Dad).

    Kinect will never achieve these dreams until the revised Kinect 2.0. Just think of this as the final prototype model.

    A new "general" (non-gaming) one, with better chipset, software, high-end camera, and accuracy could achieve all of this....when the costs come down.

  • Retroid #18 7 months ago

    Yes, yes; "potential". The tech & what is possible with it are quite impressive, as shown by the 'hackers' on PC and various applications they've produced.

    Games? On 360? Still waiting. Even Child of Eden didn't convince me of using it for gaming.

  • RodHull #19 7 months ago

    Why didn't all of the buildings blow up at the end? That's what usually happens when I hear that track.

  • CHAZBIGPOTATO #20 7 months ago

    Oh! Potential energy made kinect. Missed that first time round.

  • LOLLERS #21 7 months ago

    I think there's no doubt kinect-like technology is the future, it's not about gesture recognition or contrived control schemes for games, it's about user-recognition. Kinect is pretty much just the first step in 'computers' becoming more aware of their surroundings, which depending on your point of view may or may not be terrifying.

  • TheJuriel #22 7 months ago

    If only Microsoft DID SOMETHING WITH KINECT. That would be a good start.

  • superdelphinus #23 7 months ago

    Anyone else thought this was going to be a 1 year old child using kinect?

  • andrewsqual #24 7 months ago

    @LOLLERS No Microsoft state time and time again that it is HANDS FREE. i.e. no controller. What you are saying only makes complete sense lol.

  • captain_Carl #25 7 months ago

    Post deleted at 09:51:46 12-12-2011

  • Machiavellian #26 7 months ago

    Interesting enough, just about every one of those ideals I believe I have read Kinect is being used for. From the brain surgery to the galaxy spanning including the musical stuff.

    I understand the knee jerk hatred for Kinect but I believe a lot of you actually should check out some of the stuff being used with the technology.

  • mowgli #27 7 months ago

    Games, Microsoft. People want games. Not more potential videos that fail to deliver like last year.

  • mowgli #28 7 months ago

    But on another note, that was a fucking awesome advert. Which I have never seen before from MS.

  • DrStrangelove #29 7 months ago

    Don't talk about it. Give me cool PC software to do crazy things with it, and I'll buy it.