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Originally posted by BTG Anyone pick this up? i'm wondering if it works as well as people say.

Wondering myself. I got the Move but I guess no one gives a shit about it, lol. Move works well, but I heard Kinect kinda has some issues. You also need to be pretty far away from the camera...8ft for one person..it may work ok with 2 at that distance but I dunno. Move just needs some fucking good games, besides racket sports. Sony needs to quit worrying about piracy and release some good software. 360 is whipping it's ass, and it's been hacked for ages.

i think the whole lot are fucking stupid. and kinect has atrocious latency, at least according to the videos ive seen.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i think the whole lot are fucking stupid. and kinect has atrocious latency, at least according to the videos ive seen.

Yea they both are gimicky, but the gf actually wants to play shooters with the Wii and Move so it keeps her busy. Only reason I got it

I thought it seemed awful laggy during E3 myself. X-Play reviewed a few games today and gave them pretty good ratings. They're nothing more than improved wiimotes. Gaming to me shouldn't involve working out and thrown out shoulders and arms. That's what the gym is for.

Ha...this is a c/p from ps3-news. Now this might make it worth the US $150 price tag...

"Bounty Offered for Open Kinect Driver by Adafruit Industries
With the recent Kinect release for XBox 360, a bounty has been offered by Adafruit Industries for an open-source Kinect driver.

The challenge found on Adafruit's http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/1...source-drivers/ states the following, to quote:

What do we (all) want?

Open source drivers for this cool USB device, the drivers and/or application can run on any operating system - but completely documented and under an open source license. To demonstrate the driver you must also write an application with one "window" showing video (640 x 480) and one window showing depth. Upload all of this to GitHub.

How get the bounty ($2,000 USD)

Anyone around the world can work on this, including Microsoft Upload your code, examples and documentation to GitHub. First person / group to get RGB out with distance values being used wins, you're smart - you know what would be useful for the community out there.

All the code needs to be open source and/or public domain. Email us a link to the repository, we and some "other" Kinect for Xbox 360 hackers will check it out - if it's good to go, you'll get the $2,000 bounty!"

yeah, im sure its plenty fun for certain types of games. but i am bemused by the gaming press that talks as if its the next big thing in gaming.

Gimmick indeed, and it will continue to be so until someone can prove that this technology is indeed "revolutionary". I'm doubting we'll see that any time soon.

yep,works well

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Nice vid Hal

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Question. In todays lawsuit age, why can't nintento sue sony and sega sue microsoft?

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It looks like you ain't got no pants on there buddy!

i have a kinect, and it's pretty badass. have played only four games: kinect adventures (comes with), joyride, dance central and kinect sports.

joyride is my least fav, but the others are quite fun. especially dance central - doesnt seem like any latency to me when playing it, camera is *super* accurate and it's a really fun game.

kinect adventures, the water rafting game is awesome.

not having to use a controller ftw!