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Could Microsoft's Kinect be reborn as a virtual reality controller?

The Kinect port's removal from the Xbox One S might have lead some to believe that the accessory has reached the end of its life, but a recent Microsoft blog post suggests otherwise.

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OC_MurphysLaw2859d ago

Seems to me it could be really good for use as a room tracker as well as work in tandem with hand controls to better track positioning. I don't think it would good just on its own though.

jessionpc2859d ago

Yea good idea, lets use a complete and total piece of junk to support a brand new bleeding edge consumer device.

It's gonna make motion controls great again. /s

freshslicepizza2858d ago

seems to be working so far for psvr and i believe kinect 2 is more advanced than the ps4 camera.

OC_MurphysLaw2858d ago (Edited 2858d ago )

@jessionpc if you actually read up on kinect you would understand that the tech behind it is not junk in the least. The issue was to make Kinect work as intended it needed far better resources from the compute side...even in Xbox One it was not enough to make the system fast and responsive. Additionally for gaming we know that some kind of controller is needed for any kind of advanced games. without a controller the experiences are just too limiting and that was another fatal flaw of the Kinect system.

TheCommentator2858d ago

Right on, Moldy. A five year old stick with a light up clown nose on the end of it versus a room scanning 3D night vision camera sensitive enough to track individual fingers and even facial expressions. Which one is the total piece of junk, the device made for this generation of hardware or the one recycled from a failed attempt at plagerizing the Wii remotes?

Goldby2858d ago

its difficult to have room tracking with only one camera.

Theres a reason HTC wants 2 cameras put in opposite corners

Razuel2859d ago (Edited 2859d ago )

what dlacy said.

MasterCornholio2859d ago

I see why not. I mean Sony brought back move with PSVR so I don't see why Microsoft can't do the same.

Errorist762859d ago

Doesn't seem to be a bad idea if they can get the latency down even more and improve stuff like finger tracking.

Aenea2859d ago

Yes I think it would! In fact a while back I assumed MS would be using Kinect for VR in the future!

Also, I've read the original article a few days ago and it seemed they found a way to track your hands and fingers so they could actually show up on screen accurately. Though it's still heavy in the R&D phase and I had kinda hoped, when I saw the article's title, that they were ready to release it in the wild so we might still be a few years off before this will be ready for consumers but the idea of not needing special controllers and such sounds awesome to me!

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Bloober Team Working On 2 New Games Already

Discover the latest news from Bloober Team: they are working on 2 new games, including a new IP in partnership with Private Division.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein23h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii19h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo19h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9018h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198910h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus1h ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha19h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno19h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan19h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno18h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198119h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66910h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19814h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 14h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno19h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 14h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator1d 9h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac1d 7h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.