Comments on: Why Microsoft’s Kinect Is the Next Big Thing In Gaming

By: Andyball67

Andyball67 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

What a muppet!

You brag about your mac yet apple are Litteraly ploughing money into touch less technology like the kinect! All apple devices will have functions like this in future, you are just pissy because Microsoft got there first.

By: Andyball67

Andyball67 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

What a muppet!

By: Woollster

Woollster — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:58:00 +0000

This is why biased idiots shouldn’t write articles you can’t expect your opinion on gaming and pc gaming to be respected when you put money into the hands of apple for sub par products at tenfold prices.

By: Woollster

Woollster — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:58:00 +0000

By: guest

guest — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:05:00 +0000

I wish I could “like” your comment 100 times. Thank you.
Don’s (the author of this article) opinion pieces are where quality writing goes to die.

By: Micldon

Micldon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:00 +0000

This was a retarded article and not informative at all.

By: Micldon

Micldon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:00 +0000

This was a retarded article and not informative at all.

By: Davidlewisstorm

Davidlewisstorm — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:44:00 +0000

I have no clue as to how my remark got over on this topic. I was not reading about Kinect.

By: Sleeping

Sleeping — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Yawn. Like 80% of Dons articles.. Way to
collect a pay cheque

By: Matt1Up

Matt1Up — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:23:00 +0000

If you wanna see some examples look up my youtube channel which is the same as my name on here. I actually will have the coffee table first demo and another example using a mixture of the depth sensor and XYZ body tracking up by the end of the day……sitting in my living room working on it right now actually :)

By: Matt1Up

Matt1Up — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:14:00 +0000

I got a kinect hooked up to my pc right now and I can do things with it you wouldn’t believe…I still can’t believe some of it. I can turn my coffee table into a multi touch screen, I am working on a record store install which will be using a kinect as a means to turn the exterior glass window of the shop into a touch screen using rear projected content

Besides that I can also have it track a bunch of points on my body including my hands, head, neck, etc and then feed that data into a program to control whatever I want…..whether it be randomly appearing shapes coming off of my hand or a whole 3d character (haven’t figured out the latter yet).

The depth sensor can spit out an exact location of my right hand at 30 fps as I dance around the room
x..9835 y.2586 z 2.3588

There is also a project currently being conducted by college students which is using the kinect and modifying it so that blind people can wear it on their body and essentially be able to ‘see’ obstacles in front of them.

It’s the next big thing peiod…not just in gaming. I would also have to agree that the writer of this article needs to climb outside of his little coffee shop.

~Matt1Up
Minneapolis, MN

By: Rapscalliot

Rapscalliot — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:04:00 +0000

For an article that is written by a supposed Microsoft hater, it certainly brings a Microsoft product on a high pedestal. Based on the last article you wrote denouncing any and all electronics that aren’t Apple, I’m surprised that you’re rooting for one.

By: Barry F. Keaveney

Barry F. Keaveney — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Try the update to Lion 10.7.3 and you may revise your last sentence. And maybe talk more about what you like and not fall into the non-stop trash talk syndrome of Modern Times, imo.

By: Barry F. Keaveney

Barry F. Keaveney — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Try the update to Lion 10.7.3 and you may revise your last sentence. And maybe talk more about what you like and not fall into the non-stop trash talk syndrome of Modern Times, imo.

By: leon scott

leon scott — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000

The Kinect is the new thing in gaming, it doesn’t mean it will be fully impremented in everysingle game, But it does mean that developers will be able to create more intereactive gaming with sacrificing traditional gaming features, like a conroller. No one is stupid, I think microsoft understands that controllers are the way to go, but there are gaps in just using a conroller that are just too stagnit. It would be so much more full of a gaming experience if gamers had more beacons of symontanious conrol, like speech, motion. I mean, how would you like to actually throw a Frag grenade while playing with a controller, or bringing up the scoreboud just by saying “scorebouard” rather than stopping midgame

By: leon scott

leon scott — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:09:00 +0000

I don’t think anyone is considering the “Kinect Potential Effect”, its more than just petting/naming a baby tiger. Maybe conroller gameplay would become more interactive. Consider being able to communicate with the story line of a game in first person with voice regognition, or being able to bring up icons like saying “Ammo” or “Supplies” to veiw things on the screen in the middle of gameplay. Or emagine a gaming chair that connects to the kinect physics and gives you a realist motion controller of a car. Or think of a more precise kinect that can track slight eye movement and adjust first person views to a more realistic view, with wider perifiel viewing, so that you can look to your right without moving you gun or whatnot

By: Slavko Glamocanin

Slavko Glamocanin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:47:00 +0000

Kinect will be used in medical, for sure – anal probes, but thats it.

By: First Name

First Name — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:33:00 +0000

I think you have that backwards. The hipsters are the ones that keep calling for the death of PC gaming and that Plants Versus Zombies and Angry Birds are the future of gaming.

By: First Name

First Name — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:33:00 +0000

I think you have that backwards. The hipsters are the ones that keep calling for the death of PC gaming and that Plants Versus Zombies and Angry Birds are the future of gaming.

By: Jackstraw

Jackstraw — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000

Not a very thought out column,.,. sounds like a rant with no point…

By: Jackstraw

Jackstraw — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000

Not a very thought out column,.,. sounds like a rant with no point…

By: Andrewlh

Andrewlh — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:16:00 +0000

I know it feels like yesterday, but the wii has been out for a very long time now (in technology time). it revolutionized video games, but it’s gotten to be elderly.

By: Sperrybird

Sperrybird — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:03:00 +0000

I have the kinect and the move. I haven’t used the move in over a year while my kids and i are still playing and buying kinect games. i think the kinect is awesome but i think the technology still needs to be better before it could be useful for things like the medical field. The kinect is still not that accurate when playing games. There’s definitely promise in this technology and i think microsoft is moving in the right direction with the kinect.

By: Beaudafool

Beaudafool — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000

To think motion gaming is holding the industry back is just means you don’t understand the industry. Anything that brings something new to the table for gaming, whether good or bad, helps push the industry in the right direction. If you’ve ever seen Iron Man 1 or 2, you can’t sit there and lie and say you wouldn’t want to have a badass computer like that. All Microsoft is trying to do is make that possible.

Everyone wants to be able to be “in” the game, from hardcore gamers to casual gamers. Microsoft is doing a good job trying to apply this, just because Apple didn’t come up with the idea doesn’t mean it isn’t a good one.

By: scxfan

scxfan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:41:00 +0000

I thought the Wii was the next big thing?

Now it seems like Nintendo can’t dump it fast enough.

By: Peabods

Peabods — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Don, just stop!! When are you going to realize that the readers of this site are smarter and more well informed than you will ever be! What needs to happen is all of us to stop commenting and sooner or later they will let him go…but the bashing is so fun i can’t stop…

By: WhyFiNYC

WhyFiNYC — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Okay, so, the point of the article is, “I don’t like the kinect and the effect that it’ll have on gaming.”

- exactly what effect does the author think it’ll have on gaming? It’s kind of an important point, and I don’t see it being addressed.
- what are the author’s reasons for saying that this effect will be bad for gaming? Oh, it’s “gimmicky.” …and how is that opinion justified? It’s not. Again, kind of important to justify your opinion in an opinion piece.

By: TheHumanOracle

TheHumanOracle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:32:00 +0000

Get tired of these hipster articles.

Yeah l get it, hardcore gaming cool, casual gaming uncool. Mac cool, PC uncool. Google cool, MS uncool etc. etc. very predictable.Kinect has its place and is very very clever.Keyboard, mouse, controller arent going anywhere soon.

By: OgilvyTheAstronomer

OgilvyTheAstronomer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:32:00 +0000

Exactly – that’s what separates a fad from a real development (i.e. touchscreen smartphones).

By: OgilvyTheAstronomer

OgilvyTheAstronomer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000

You must be playing a different version of Skyrim, or playing it with keyboard and mouse. It’s pretty obvious it was designed with a gamepad in mind, and as such it works perfectly well.

By: OgilvyTheAstronomer

OgilvyTheAstronomer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:28:00 +0000

It sounds to me that he loves videogames, that’s precisely why he hates and fears the Kinect. Same reason I do, in fact; otherwise I wouldn’t mind it.

By: Updatec

Updatec — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0000

when i was a child..PS aka playstation so booming n maniac in indonesia…
now is same.. just upgrade from ps1 tp ps3..
but after i saw kinnect..i really apreciate w/ xbox..but not w/ microsoft..cause technology must be so free.. linux for human being

By: markiz

markiz — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:06:00 +0000

He has a MAC, so you’re right.

By: markiz

markiz — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0000

I don’t think shooting or any type of action based games would be good with kinect, because i saw this Star Wars game and it was TERRIBLE. But simple logic games like solitare, sudoku, and maybe a certain type of platformers, party games and sports games could be awesome with it.

By: markiz

markiz — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:01:00 +0000

OMG. Seriously?

A MAC owner, that is also a gamer (what’s up with that oxymoron?!), thinks that motion based gaming is holding gaming back?! And then gives ZERO arguments for it.

It just makes no sense. It can only advance it, there is no reason and no way it can hold it back. Innovation never holds things back.

And not to think how awesome would it be to use kinect for some mundane tasks on a computer, like browsing, scrolling, switching pages, media playback controls..

By: ralph

ralph — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:00 +0000

wrong article to comment on dude….

By: ralph

ralph — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:19:00 +0000

seems like the author is just a microsoft hater rather based on the last comment about the mac…..regardless, the only games that would probably be fun with the kinect are shooting games similar to time crisis and such….i see more future in other industries such as medicine, etc…

By: Lalitgayu

Lalitgayu — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:22:00 +0000

I bought a Kinect in December 2010 and haven’t used it since feb 2011 after its novelty value ended. And I know few other friends who had similar experience

By: LakeLevel The

LakeLevel The — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:00 +0000

You have woken a sleeping giant. Think Star Trek holodeck. What are the natural steps toward that? Kinect. This is one giant step toward re-making Windows and XBox dominance. Microsoft already has hundreds of patents in this area. They looked at what Apple was doing and jumped one step ahead. Yikes. The reports of Microsoft’s death are greatly exaggerated.

By: marine6680

marine6680 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:47:00 +0000

Too bad that the casual market is larger and will dictate how consoles are built from now on. They (the console makers) care about sales not quality experience.

I think that the PS3 Move would actually be viable controller if it was tweaked just a bit.

Use IR lights that blink in a pattern rather than visible colors. Also… 2 … repeat 2 control sticks.

Mapping aiming and turning to the motion control is just dumb. It sucked on the Wii and it sucked on the Move.

Just use the motion control to aim at points on the screen, maybe a few other contextual actions, and the control sticks for all movement like current controllers.