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Can we talk about how insane this old Kinect ad is???

ExhaustedWalrus

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I'm sure a lot of you have seen this, but I am legit blown away that this was created and supposed to be shown to people.



I mean... Kinect disarming a bomb and helping with brain surgery. What was MS smoking?
 
EvilBoris

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"Depictions are Visionary"

why isn't this a meme?!

Imagine disarming a bomb with Kinect

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SoH

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It is over indulgent as fuck in the way only a marketing firm can, though the Kinect did have a pretty interesting development community outside of games. Probably still does, I haven't check in on it in some time.

And plenty of weird interesting games related projects still kicking around, it seems.
 
Arthands

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the Kinect is actually seeing some fair bit of success in tech companies. So much so that they actually make a gen 2 Kinect earlier this year.
 
jett

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depictions are visionary

how did these not make the rounds lol
 
big_z

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Wonder if that promo was made back when they still planned to give Kinect its own processor.
 
Strings

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night814 said:
They definitely thought they had something incredible.

And the market was like 'meh'
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The Kinect sold over 35m units and gave the 360 a huge second wind in terms of sales. Like, it was terrible, but the market ate it up.

Milo is still the most insane thing ever, and they presented this shit at E3:

 
LBsquared

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If it could actually defuse a bomb, the Xbox One would have had a successful launch.
 
Stopdoor

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I'm trying to imagine the use of invisible instruments past being a neat gimmick, I assume it would probably be impractical to learn that way? Even if you were low on cash or something and this was your best option?
 
skeezx

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haven't been keeping tabs but i'd imagine it gets quite the mileage in certain industries to this day

though, yeah, the way it was pushed then you'd think by 2019 it'd have evolved into full on Minority Report tech
 
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ExhaustedWalrus

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I stand corrected, that's actually pretty amazing. Who knew something that was a gaming failure could be so useful for so many important things?
 
SoH

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Noisepurge said:
That's just because it was bundled with the 360 when it was selling at it's best. I don't think anyone went out and bought it on it's own.
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This is peak anecdotal, I realize, but I know 2 people who specifically did. Both were not bleeding edge gotta have any new tech types either. They wanted to bowl and do yoga/dance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
SpartyCrunch

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Kinect technology is also core to the HoloLens v1 and v2, which have incredible vision sensing for both keeping "holograms" pinned to the world in both versions, and now detecting hand gestures in v2.
 
FarZa17

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To be fair, the Kinect tech really works, when it works as intended.

I used Kinect for voice recognition tech with my robot buddy program for university project before and motion capture tracking to match with 3D model rigging; it's pretty awesome experience.

But for gaming purpose, it's not as fun as what the ads exaggerated mostly, but Dance Central and Fruit Ninja game are exceptional because they are certainly fun with Kinect because there's no need to hold physical controller like PSMove and Wii Controller.
 
ThatsMyTrunks

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I love that this thread is in two camps:

"Haha the kinect was dumb and was a failure and this is dumb"

and

"The Kinect is an amazing tool that was incredibly useful for non-gaming things that has found great successes in surprising industries, just like the video depicts."

I still wanna set up one or two as 3D Scanners -- that seems like it could be neat.
 
Pryme

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night814 said:
They definitely thought they had something incredible.

And the market was like 'meh'
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The market for Kinect v1 was certainly not 'meh'.

Noisepurge said:
That's just because it was bundled with the 360 when it was selling at it's best. I don't think anyone went out and bought it on it's own.
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Not only is this completely untrue, but Kinect software sales were actually pretty good.

The Dance central games were multi-million sellers, for example. And the Kinect Sports/Adventures games sold millions too.

It does seem like some of you are woefully misinformed about this.

Strings said:
The Kinect sold over 35m units and gave the 360 a huge second wind in terms of sales. Like, it was terrible, but the market ate it up.
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It was terrible for several genres like FPS or racing games.
It worked very well for mostly family friendly stuff.

To date, many of the family friendly games like dance central, Kinect Sports etc have some of the highest user rating on amazon for Xbox 360 software.
 
ForgedByGeeks

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SpartyCrunch said:
Kinect technology is also core to the HoloLens v1 and v2, which have incredible vision sensing for both keeping "holograms" pinned to the world in both versions, and now detecting hand gestures in v2.
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BTW, for anyone wanting to understand just how hard it is to pin images properly in AR, look up "Object Permanence". HoloLens is basically the only device that does this well (including iOS and Magic Leap).

This is only possible because of all the tracking stuff they trained into Kinect using ML and that the HoloLens utilizes multiple Kinects.
 
KoreanBBQ

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In my younger days working at LucasArts, I worked on Kinect Star Wars. Oh boy, you guys have no idea. Dancing Han Solo ring a bell?
 
TaterTots

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I remember when the Kinect launched and how popular it was. People talked about it like they loved it. Fast forward to the Xbox One reveal and everyone acted like they hated it all of a sudden. Why is that? I'm sure it needed refinement, but the technology is being used today in lots of other products.
 
AllMight1

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Strings said:
The Kinect sold over 35m units and gave the 360 a huge second wind in terms of sales. Like, it was terrible, but the market ate it up.

Milo is still the most insane thing ever, and they presented this shit at E3:

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See the old man talking in the video fucks up, because he reveals that Milo's actions are in fact scripted and not "natural" like they want us to believe. "Everyone felt the need to grab the googles"
 
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