rahmu wroteI do dislike Microsoft, does it make Kinect a bad product?
And yeah they are amazing features, incredibly innovative. I know for having worked on image and sound manipulation how difficult it is to achieve what kinect shows. The more interesting part is not the recognition per se, it's the availability of such technologies for around 150$. Such results were previously only attained in research facilities and high corporate spheres.
A lot of research today is conducted towards the way we interact with machines. Kinect shows how strong Microsoft is on that field at the moment.
Hmm...Where did you pull all that info from?? the idea existed way before Microsoft announced the Kinect, have you ever heard about the PS2 Eyetoy? it existed since 2002-2003, that's at least 7 years ago, so how is that innovative if the idea and technology was avalable before??
Kinect is just a more expensive and advanced device, even some reports are stating how buggy the device is and how it find difficulties detecting certain skin colors,
I don't want to be part of a video game where little girls and old people enjoy it, which MS's Kinect is aimed to :P..
I definitely want to be part of it. I want to try it.
Once again why not? Good for you , but certainly I don't plan to even give it a try..
Warning:
you better watch out playing that thing