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Of course I asked for a demo, and my friend proceeded to play a volleyball game, within about a minute he jumped in the air to spike the ball...his hand went right into the ceiling fan.
It seemed like amazing technology before/during/after the demo, but I never even bothered trying it after witnessing that.
I don't know. Seems to me that there is some good technology in there. I think what hurt it ultimately, and forgive me if I am repeating this but, the launch of the xbox one x with the kinect seems to have hurt it more. As I recall there was controversy over "always on" to receive commands from the users that rub the community the wrong way.
For those who don't know; the One's kinect mic is always on by default, and says hello to you if it detects (what it thinks is) your voice recognition. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted the camera on full-time too!
I think the whole thing is tone-deaf, like the windows 10 privacy settings charade.
The Kinect was a huge success, just not in gaming. At the time of its release it revolutionized robotics. Equivalent sensors at the time cost thousands of dollars compared to the hundred or so of a Kinect. We could buy a dozen of them and allow undergrads to play with them, exposing them to CV algorithms only grad students got to experience before. It opened up research to replicability too. Before you would have a m…
I don't know. Seems to me that there is some good technology in there. I think what hurt it ultimately, and forgive me if I am repeating this but, the launch of the xbox one x with the kinect seems to have hurt it more. As I recall there was controversy over "always on" to receive commands from the users that rub the community the wrong way.