I have had Kinect for around a week now. I was looking for one but they were sold out but I like lucked up at a Gametop and was able to get one. I have seen a few shipments of bundles come and go but I only needed the Kinect itself.
Set up was very easy. I hooked it up in like 5 minutes while my wife watched Judge Judy. I turned it on and the 360 immediastely went into an update and calibration. I have heard alot of people talk about the distance thing with kinect, what you need to remember is that the camera wants to be able to see your head and your feet when it tilts up and down.
Calibration is very important, its the difference between a this cool performance to a wow performance. You are also suppose to calibrate it for different times of the day. This may sound like a lot but not really it does this so that it recognizes you in any conditions and it stores the condition settings. The sound calibration is genius. I especially like it because I have used software like this before and never saw it being used this way for something like this.
I was a little disappointed in the fact that Kinect has its own specific hub for browsing and it currently doesnt have evrything I use on xboxlive there. But the things they have there work really well, in fact the Zune browser is better than the regular one. Despite what you may hear the controls are very responsive.
I started with some Kinect Adventures and I was a little skeptical on how it would work so i played it and enjoyed it but I played it very gingerly I was scared it would lose me or mis interprt someting. The same thing with Kinect Sports, when I was playing Table Tennis it worked but I felt myself holding back. Let me just say I was wrong.
After I increased levels in each game I started realizing that I needed to move faster and more dynamic I couldnt play it gingerly or i would lose, it worked perfect and never missed a beat. You are really represented in a 3d space. I thought that if I needed to jump and move to the right I would have to jump an move to the right, instead I found I could just jump at an angle to the right. Little things like in boxing you bob and weave and it makes you harder to hit make you really see how far they could take this. Me and my wife played it didnt miss a beat with both of us.
I played some demos and have the same conclusion. The games work. Just like regualr games some better than other but once you get past the learning curve its second nature. They did a great job at integrating the technology. I would give it a 10 out of 10 and I feel one day it will be there but with the chopped down Kinect hub and lack of any games with true core appeal had to dock some points.
Basically the parts are there they just have to use them.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place.
I was never bought into Kinect. Never wanted one even if it did break sells records 10 years ago. Interesting concept but failure at the end. Glad its dead and gone.
Microsoft's misunderstood audio-visual peripheral was, at one point, the fastest-selling consumer electronics device of all time, believe it or not, with over 10 million units sold during the first six months after its release. Of course, that was the Xbox 360 version, which was vastly inferior to the "V2" version available on the Xbox One and Windows PCs.
Despite the superior power of Kinect V2, a combination of poor messaging, bad positioning, and lackluster software support led Kinect V2 as an Xbox accessory down the path of obscurity, right into being killed off completely.
Hell no, only way it's fine is if you're still using a launch model, otherwise be prepared to shell out $50+ on an adapter just to be able to yell at your xbox to turn on. Only reason i could see for buying one is if you're trying to get started as a streamer, even then streaming through a PC is a better choice if you got it.
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MIcrosoft killed the kinect so obviously its not worth it unless you like wasting your money. I think Microsoft did the right thing by ending kinect support because kinect games were trash
There is a dozen or so kid games on the 360 that my kids love, but not worth it on x1. We have about all of the 360 Kinect games and there is some short times of fun in almost all of them. But I can’t even buy all of the x1 Kinect games because they rarely go on sale. If they were $5-10 I would try them all with the kids.
It was a great product just for the camera and voice stuff ..too bad they pretty much murdered it
I'd like to sell mine to New Jersey airport, but I don't think the logistical price is worth paying for the meager amount I'd obtain from such a thing.
I get the urge to play fantasia now and again, but not enough to shell out on an adaptor
After reading the review and being a fan of Kinect I thought that game would be a classic for me. But it just didn’t work well with me, not sure if it was my lack of rhythm or what. I do need to give it another shot though.
this is a poor review, but at least you are happy with your purchase
So are there any games for Kinect that aren't for little kids?
The amount of time it takes to navigate using Kinect is astounding. Yelling for voice recog to work is janky. The potential is great, however, I'm 33. Not a game out for Kinect I can care about or want to play, let alone MUST play.
nice one man, i'm glad your enjoying it. I think it's an awesome buy.
a lot beter than i was thinkin im really Impressed