2010-11-04, 11:01 PM
[color="#cc8899"]1. Actually have a Kinect
2. It's a blast
It's not meant for hardcore gaming, it's meant to get people up and active and having fun. It's got its downfalls, but it's a relatively new type of input device. Give it time to develop. You don't realize it while playing, but after a solid 2 hours of playing Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports I had actually gotten a decent workout.
It has flaws, and kinks, and problems, but they're minor, and have been hiccups at worst. Aside from the space issue, I feel the complaints are mostly negligible.
What really excites me about the Kinect, though is the fact that, with decent head-tracking software and a visor/glasses/something with a screen in front of your eyes, virtual reality games are very, VERY possible in the near future. We've almost made it to that unheard of tier of sci-fi inspired tech that we could legitimately be seeing all manner of simulators that require nothing more than a visor and a Kinect-like device or two. Add in a moving floor (something that moves when ran on instead of the person themself running, allowing them to run in place) and you've got some absurd possibilities for any number of things (military training, sightseeing for physically/financially impaired, relaxing, virtual pets/gardens, etc)[/COLOR]
2. It's a blast
It's not meant for hardcore gaming, it's meant to get people up and active and having fun. It's got its downfalls, but it's a relatively new type of input device. Give it time to develop. You don't realize it while playing, but after a solid 2 hours of playing Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports I had actually gotten a decent workout.
It has flaws, and kinks, and problems, but they're minor, and have been hiccups at worst. Aside from the space issue, I feel the complaints are mostly negligible.
What really excites me about the Kinect, though is the fact that, with decent head-tracking software and a visor/glasses/something with a screen in front of your eyes, virtual reality games are very, VERY possible in the near future. We've almost made it to that unheard of tier of sci-fi inspired tech that we could legitimately be seeing all manner of simulators that require nothing more than a visor and a Kinect-like device or two. Add in a moving floor (something that moves when ran on instead of the person themself running, allowing them to run in place) and you've got some absurd possibilities for any number of things (military training, sightseeing for physically/financially impaired, relaxing, virtual pets/gardens, etc)[/COLOR]