Comments on: Phil Spencer Admits Kinect Isn’t Useful Any More In Case of Games Like Call of Duty

By: Avatar Roku

Avatar Roku — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 20:51:00 +0000

The first Call of Duty on Xbox One involved a character who used a dog named Riley. An animal that you would control in real life with voice commands and gesture and nobody realized you could’ve used the Kinect to do this instead of the stupid controller? Spencer saying this about CoD proves how clueless and unqualified these people are to be at the forefront of game creation.

Also the main competitor to CoD, Battlefield makes good use of Kinect for head tracking and leaning around corners. In fact most EA games try to make good use of Kinect, to their credit.

By: Manny Martinez

Manny Martinez — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:07:00 +0000

The kinect is far from useless. It is used by many researchers in the computer vision field.

By: Orion Wolf

Orion Wolf — Thu, 21 May 2015 13:02:00 +0000

The Kinect might not have the so called “killer app”, but it’s far from useless.

Btw I’ve seen quite a few articles trashing the Kinect, but I have yet to see an article talking about the “usefulness” of the ps4 camera.

By: efnet

efnet — Wed, 20 May 2015 00:37:00 +0000

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-boss-we-re-not-abandoning-kinect/1100-6427449/

Lol hmmm looks like this site is shaping stories as it see fit

By: theduckofdeath

theduckofdeath — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:13:00 +0000

In reply to Nettrick Nowan. Even if MS wanted that to be true, I highly doubt they would have implemented such dependency. The case where a Kinect malfunctions or was delevered in a defective state would render the entire machine useless. Early on, they spoke as if Kinect was physical integrated into the XB1. That wasn't viable because of the opportunity for obstruction of the camera.

By: Nettrick Nowan

Nettrick Nowan — Tue, 19 May 2015 18:48:00 +0000

I sure wish some interviewer would ask him the tough questions like why Microsoft said the Kinect and Xbox One couldn’t be sold separately because the Kinect was “integral” to the Xbox One. Someone needs to call him out on this.