Kinect Reviews

[aukevin]

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For me man it's definitely having my shape / virtual me there on the screen.

Knowing I am not bending low enough or raising my arms high enough is important.

Also, I need the extra motivation...a DVD etc doesn't know when I've stopped and said "screw this, i am too tired!"...these things actually count your movement, so you need to keep going. Maybe it's just me who needs that though, I slacken off easily

So it helps you with your form? I've tried some of these fitness games and also something I feel like I struggle with at the gym is technique. If the Kinect works well enough and the game is smart enough to help correct you when you are doing activities with bad technique, I would think that would be a very positive thing with the getting a game like this.

[Rules]

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So it helps you with your form? I've tried some of these fitness games and also something I feel like I struggle with at the gym is technique. If the Kinect works well enough and the game is smart enough to help correct you when you are doing activities with bad technique, I would think that would be a very positive thing with the getting a game like this.

Probably could help Pared's swing

[cocobee]

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Love the picture upload with Kinect Adventuress! Cool little feature. Lovin the Kinect so far! I got Dance Central free from Old Navy during Black Friday. Ended up getting Your Shape and Kinect Sports with the Toys r Us deal (Buy 1 get 1 half off). Thinking about picking up Kinectimals for my 3 year old for christmas.

I downloaded the toning and cardio boxing bundle add on from xbox for 520 points. Checking it out tomorrow.

[Rules]

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Love the picture upload with Kinect Adventuress! Cool little feature. Lovin the Kinect so far! I got Dance Central free from Old Navy during Black Friday. Ended up getting Your Shape and Kinect Sports with the Toys r Us deal (Buy 1 get 1 half off). Thinking about picking up Kinectimals for my 3 year old for christmas.

I downloaded the toning and cardio boxing bundle add on from xbox for 520 points. Checking it out tomorrow.

Let me know as I watched a brief video of the toning and cardio boxing DLC. I read there will be around 11-12 downloadable programs for Fitness Evolved between now and March.

[Court_vision]

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I started 'The Boot Camp' program today...did a 1 hour 'Box Fit' routine on 'challenging' level...

And man did it hurt!

My arms felt like lead.

Two hours later I am feeling good now...but man was I aching during it.

[Pared]

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For me man it's definitely having my shape / virtual me there on the screen.

Knowing I am not bending low enough or raising my arms high enough is important.

Also, I need the extra motivation...a DVD etc doesn't know when I've stopped and said "screw this, i am too tired!"...these things actually count your movement, so you need to keep going. Maybe it's just me who needs that though, I slacken off easily

Well that's pretty cool.

[WyxHarmon]

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Got this last night. I have never had this much fun in a video game. RallyBall is already a family favorite. Hopefully I can pick up Sports soon so I can Box. I give this a 9/10, only 9 cause IT NEEDS SO MUCH SPACE.

[Court_vision]

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So it helps you with your form? I've tried some of these fitness games and also something I feel like I struggle with at the gym is technique. If the Kinect works well enough and the game is smart enough to help correct you when you are doing activities with bad technique, I would think that would be a very positive thing with the getting a game like this.

Some of the products scan you into the game (Fitness Evolved and Biggest Loser...Fitness evolved literally is you on the screen)...

So, when the trainer says something about your posture, you can clearly see why and fix it. I've found it really helpful so far.

[cocobee]

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Free Kinect Sports DLC, about to fire it up now.

[CaptainZombie]

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Free Kinect Sports DLC, about to fire it up now.

What's the DLC?

[ExtremeGamer]

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What's the DLC?

A bunch of minigames and some new mascots, a zombie and some other things. Also 250 gamerscore.

[Jistic]

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10 more days and I and I can finally play this damn thing!

[Flawless]

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Source: MS quadrupling Kinect accuracy

Microsoft is working to improve the accuracy of Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect so that it could detect finger movement and hand rotation, Eurogamer understands.

Microsoft's Kinect team is said to be working "very hard" on a switching or compression technology that will allow a greater amount of data to pass through Kinect to the Xbox 360 console.

Kinect features are dictated by firmware so that they can be added and upgraded over time.

The depth sensor used by Kinect is also dictated by firmware – it is currently set at a 30 frames per second limit and a 320x240 resolution limit.

At a 640x480 resolution, however, Kinect could begin to detect fingers and hand rotation – an effective quadrupling of its accuracy.

The issue relates to the USB controller interface, Eurogamer was told. It is capable of around 35MB/s, but it only uses around 15/16MB/s.

This artificial limit is in place because multiple USB devices can be used at once on an Xbox 360. But Microsoft is working on a technology to allow greater throughput in this regard, Eurogamer understands.

If Microsoft achieves its goal it could double the spec of Kinect's depth camera with a simple dashboard update.

[aukevin]

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The adventure/action games that I've seen vids for (Star Wars and Harry Potter) kind of look like they are on rails since the Kinect doesn't have any kind of controller to handle walking through a level and stuff. I wonder if there will be adventure games that you have to walk/run in place, jump over stuff and make climbing motions, junk like that. From what I've seen of Star Wars and Potter, it seems like you stand in place, then kind of zoom forward. I hope the games advance to handle exploration of levels and stuff. That'd be great.

[DaveDQ]

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A great mini game would be the Kinect vs You staring contest. The first one to blink loses.

Win!