Kinect/Natal

[turn3]

Originally Posted by turn3

What's the price for Kinect and what game does it come with? Keep in mind I will never play a dancing game. Already have a 360.

Originally Posted by DrRosenRosen

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I asked because it seems every place I look has a different Kinect package at a different price.

[kiddiedoc]

Originally Posted by BearCat204

Due to the opening sales figures and future estimates, you might have been a bit premature in your comments

The quote: "Juuuuust a bit outside" comes to mind.

[BearCat204]

Microsoft’s newly released Kinect controller is facing accusations of racism, after reports of it being unable to recognise dark-skinned people surfaced.
GameSpot employees reportedly had trouble using the device, and CNN soon picked up the story; GameSpot’s account of the problems is below:
“Part of Microsoft’s $500 million marketing push for Kinect includes positioning it as an accessible entertainment device for all audiences. However, it may be more accessible to some than others.
While testing out the Kinect, two dark-skinned GameSpot employees experienced problems with the system’s facial recognition abilities. The system recognized one employee inconsistently, while it was never able to properly identify the other despite repeated calibration attempts.
However, Kinect had no problems identifying a third dark-skinned GameSpot employee, recognizing his face after a single calibration. Lighter-skinned employees were also consistently picked up on the first try.
It’s important to note that the problems were only experienced with the system’s facial recognition feature and don’t prevent users from playing Kinect games. Skeletal tracking, a primary means of controlling games with Kinect, appeared to work the same for all GameSpot employees.
The system’s inability to recognize a user only means that he or she would need to sign in manually and some games’ features may not work properly as a result.
For example, when a second player joins in to Kinect Adventures during the title’s drop-in, drop-out multiplayer, the system can’t bring up that player’s proper in-game avatar automatically if it can’t identify the new user first.”
Microsoft now expects to sell 5,000,000 units, so even problems only affecting a small proportion of users may turn out to be widely experienced, and in the US such problems are likely to be politically sensitive to say the least.
Since only the facial recognition feature is affected, the problem is not quite as bad as it could be – but it has not stopped detractors from immediately labelling it a racist product. If previous preblems are any guide, a class action suit may not be out of the question.
Microsoft stops just short of telling inconveniently black users to bleach their faces:
“Kinect works with people of all skin tones. And just like a camera, optimal lighting is best. Anyone experiencing issues with facial recognition should adjust their lighting settings, as instructed in the Kinect Tuner.”
Previously Microsoft has told badly dressed users to strip off into something more sensible, its philosophy apparently being that consumers should adapt their dress, rooms,lighting and now skin tone to Kinect, and not Kinect to them.

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[kiddiedoc]

The Kinect unit (without console) seems to be sold out everywhere. Has anyone heard of a date for availabilty?

[utvol0427]

lol @ Bear's post
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[OrangeWilly]

Originally Posted by kiddiedoc

The Kinect unit (without console) seems to be sold out everywhere. Has anyone heard of a date for availabilty?

I picked one up last month and the Best Buy guy here in Chatt said that when they sold out, the next shipment wouldn't be until sometime between Dec 1 and 15th.

That probably doesn't help a lot but that's what he said.

[wounded mullet]

Even though my gf said jewelry for Christmas, im thinking this would be a better option.

[utvolpj]

Originally Posted by wounded mullet

Even though my gf said jewelry for Christmas, im thinking this would be a better option.

good choice, you'll definitely have plenty of free time to play it

[SWIL]

a racist gaming console... now I've heard everything.

Funny how Kinect recognized the third black guy with no problem... he must have came from the 'burbs. =D

[666]

Thought this thing would be a stupid piece of crap at first, bought one for my wife, enjoy playing the dancing game like a dumb *** now

[NCGatorBait]

Lol..picked that up for my daughter but haven't tried it yet..
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[BCSsucks]

I got a Kinect for Christmas, I had zero expectations for the thing. But it's pretty dang fun, it's a nice change of pace from shooting people in the face. Anybody else diggin it?
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[duckman398686]

i think about picking it up every now and then just for a change of pace. i've heard several people say the dancing game is fun.

[BCSsucks]

I havent tried the dancing game. I have kinect sports, and the wife loves it. It's cool we have a xbox game we can play and both enjoy.
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[jamesd1628]

Got if for my son for Christmas. The first few days, he was obsessed with Black Ops, so we only started using the Kinect aspect over the past couple of days. It's pretty cool, I have to say. We have twin 4-year-olds, and they freakin' love the Adventures game. They figured out pretty quickly how to navigate through the menus just by moving their arms around. The dancing game is hilarious.