Kinect technology thread

And?

 

Everything in that video is awesome sauce.

The fact you can swap controllers and change places and Kinect auto detects and could alter split screen to accomodate is pretty sweet. The facial engagement as well as expression, heart rate, noise cancelling, thumbs, IR, tracking force, etc as an entire package is really impressive.

We better get a good boxing game out of this!!!

 

Meaning a very low obstacle to utilizing this feature across pretty much any platform.

 

Kinect technology thread.

 

We've discussed this before. Boxing is pretty much all I want. They give me a good boxing game, and I'm sold.

 

Yeah. I think this is what they have always had in mind but couldn't do because of technological the limitations of the 360 and Kinect V1. This is seriously impressive.

 

Here is a video of what might be the same method.

Besides the fact that it's only tracking at 30FPS this should be perfect for a boxing game now especially with the way it can measure your impact & show how much muscle you're putting into your swings.

 

You know this heart rate thing for Kinect...
Not trying to sound racist or anything but, will this thing even work for people of African and Asian decent?

Because based on this qoute "By examining your face's skin color and transparency, the Kinect and Xbox One are able to estimate your current heart rate."

Would that truly work with everyone in the world?

 

That looks really good! Impressive tec!

 

Hell yeah, with this tec...this might get real!

 

Hmm... the new Kinect tech is really impressive. Out of curiousity, would the new Kinect work as a cheap MoCap alternative? Skeleton mapping seems to have improved a lot. I think indy devs would love that.

 

They say yes

 

They say yes, because it uses infrared. Since they mentioned it specifically, they have probably tested it this time. But as said, I have my doubts it works well at all yet - in the example, 60 seemed a little low for someone standing and being fairly excited.

 

The technology for reading heart rate using the refelctivity of the skin using a camera is pretty well established these days. First time I saw it was a Siggraph presentation a few years ago iirc.

Mobile phone cameras do a reasonable job of it now so kinect should stand a decent chance of doing a good job using a high quality camera with both colour and IR (plus a big chunk of computing power at the other end of the wire).

http://www.cardiio.com/

(heart rate of 60 does seem a bit low but if he was relatively fit and hadn't been doing much it's not unreasonable).

 

It just seemed to clean - there was no movement in the number, and it's typically the number that is considered the perfect 'rest' state. I'm not saying it is technically impossible, but just didn't seem to be properly working here. Face tracking and such though seemed very good and very instant.

 

Those types of apps have been available on iOS for awhile now...I have a few of them and used them to check my pulse.

Before that the norm was using apps that utilized the LED light and camera while you covered them with your finger.

 

In the gametrailers video the heart rate measuring looks more precise, moving up and down ~68bpm.

 

Kinect can now translate sign language.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/kinect-sign-language-6C10658006

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Aside from that, there is a rumour going round which says that Sony and Apple have been in talks to buy the original Kinect sensor manufacturers, the Israeli company Primesense

http://www.shacknews.com/article/80...onsidering-purchase-of-first-gen-kinect-maker?

 

That's quite impressive when you take into account that is with Kinect 1.0. It should be significantly better with Kinect 2.0.

Regards,
SB

 

I thought they were using Kinect 2, especially when you take into account the timing, but they aren't. Aside from that, your "significantly better with Kinect 2" claim is basically confirmed with this news. Kinect 2 is 10 times more capable than Kinect 1.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Xbox...re-Powerful-than-Xbox-360-Sensor-370551.shtml