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This is great! With the normal video chat I kept scaring children.
But now I can't see the children :(
But now I can't see the children :(
Yep, called that one. (I'd link to my "calling" it in a similarly smug way, but I'm on my phone and, really, just too damn lazy.)
Really, though, I was the only person on the entire internet to call it.
Really, though, I was the only person on the entire internet to call it.
So... you can get together and talk with your friends? Couldn't you, you know, do that before? Without spending hundreds of dollars?
I was watching the keynote with a friend. And we were all "We should do a chat thing and share it on Facebook. We'll just discuss Goatse and Tubgirl." IDEA OF THE YEAR THANK YOU MICROSOFT FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!
@Bacchus
There's a target audience for this?
Random person creates x-rays, and Microsoft creates a chat room? This IS Home, isn't it?
There's a target audience for this?
Random person creates x-rays, and Microsoft creates a chat room? This IS Home, isn't it?
I want a destructoid show completely in Avatar Kinect. Just think, Holmes could still be the co-host even from across the country.
@ SxSW- Did you just coin an awesome new use of the word "internets", or did you mean to say "interests".
Either way, I'm using it.
Either way, I'm using it.
@Mrandydixon
OMG. We can make our own sports broadcast and then blog about it!
The facial recognition tech looks like it's getting better though. That's a plus.
OMG. We can make our own sports broadcast and then blog about it!
The facial recognition tech looks like it's getting better though. That's a plus.
Bring back 1v100 and integrate the avatar movement into it... oh wait.... I can just see all the jerking off into the air when someone gets chosen to be the one.
What intrigue me the most, is that the Steve-B hand and finguers where tracked, but on the vide-demo they were not tracking the actors hands.. that meeeaaaannssss
$150 for this??!! Really? WTF... Microsoft, what was once the most "hardcore" thing in the planet, is now a kid's toy. I wonder if there are still fanboys who can defend Microsoft for their "exclusive games" rather than sales, which the Wii has beat?
Man, that video definitely portrays the average user accurately. I'm sure somebody will like this though. But altogether, it seems like a giant waste of resources, much like Home.
Ballmer: "Kinect listens to your voice and tracks your body."
Yes, yes, parents, buy more for your kids. Sex and violence is bad, Kinect is good. Microsoft hears you, sees you...
Yes, yes, parents, buy more for your kids. Sex and violence is bad, Kinect is good. Microsoft hears you, sees you...
Cool I guess. Augmented reality video chat seems like it would be cooler. I would super impose a batman costume over my digital image and chat w criminals.
My guess? Avatars can't move about because Microsoft's afraid they'll go around teabagging each other or something. (I know that's what I'd do.)
If Microsoft allowed for more Avatar options (or just made them into player mascots outright) and fantastical settings (for example: robots in a factory,animal heads mounted on a hunter's wall, prisoners on Deathrow,people in adjacent toilet stalls...in a space station or Hobbits in the Shire),this could take off in a big way.
Controlling virtual inaction figures made in one's own image just doesn't strike me as a particularly amusing application of cutting edge gaming technology.
Controlling virtual inaction figures made in one's own image just doesn't strike me as a particularly amusing application of cutting edge gaming technology.
You know what? Now that I think of it, if you're going to video chat with a friend, why on God's green Earth would you want to make yourself look like a cartoon? Are you afraid of all your friends?
PS Home. Free. E3 boothes and shit. Games to play. Shit to explore. Bitched about all over the internet.
Avatard Kinect. Chatroom with arm waving. £150 Kinect. £40 a year LIVE. £150 a year replacing broken Xboxes.
I hate the internet sometiems.
Avatard Kinect. Chatroom with arm waving. £150 Kinect. £40 a year LIVE. £150 a year replacing broken Xboxes.
I hate the internet sometiems.
Why all the hate? If people have a kinect, then its just something extra being added to the subscription right?
@woody1988
Some people aren't happy unless they are finding ways to make themselves feel good about their purchases by demeaning the other product. It has to be that, considering this is something extra that is free and yet everybody is bitching like Microsoft pissed in their corn flakes this morning.
Some people aren't happy unless they are finding ways to make themselves feel good about their purchases by demeaning the other product. It has to be that, considering this is something extra that is free and yet everybody is bitching like Microsoft pissed in their corn flakes this morning.
I... don't see the point of this. It's an extra toy for people who own Kinect, sure, but who would use this more than once just to see how it works? You can't even play any games while in this chat room, can you?
@Kamen
They still do - they have Lionheart Studios, Rare, and other properties.
They also scoop up exclusives better than Sony does. Timed exclusivity for Black Ops, and New Vegas is HUGE business for them. They still care about games; it's just you.
They still do - they have Lionheart Studios, Rare, and other properties.
They also scoop up exclusives better than Sony does. Timed exclusivity for Black Ops, and New Vegas is HUGE business for them. They still care about games; it's just you.
So it's what we already had (Kinect video chat) with less camera? What the hell is this shit supposed to accomplish?
Hey!!!! Now the 360 has a place just like PS Home where people will get together to give eachother virtual blowjobs. Some poor parent is going to walk in on their kid, pants around his ankles, and rubbing one out in front of the tv. When they look at the screen they'll see a whored up 360 Mii's head bobbing up and down, and they'll hear another guys voice come across the line! Great You Tube moments.
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