I'm a MSFT employee but you guys have to take my word that this is a purely unbiased review. :)
I just played the Kinect all evening for the first time. And I'm still in shock - that thing is magical, like the first time I played with the Wii, flicked on an iPhone or got search results instantly from Google.
Few things blew me away
- How intuitive the controls (or lack of thereof) are. You just 'do'. The Wii was like this too but this felt more natural
- Being able to talk to my Xbox. I've never felt voice recognition was ready for mainstream. I was wrong - talking to my TV felt a bit like Star Trek modulo the computer voice.
- How much fun it was. My wife and I had as fun much goofing off by dancing around and playing around as much as competing.
There will be a special "Igor" version for that. But yeah, I have bluetooth voice integration in my car and I have a tough time trying to make the voice commands work ("call", "setup", etc.), because I am not a native English speaker and have an accent.
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I'm a MSFT employee but you guys have to take my word that this is a purely unbiased review. :)
I just played the Kinect all evening for the first time. And I'm still in shock - that thing is magical, like the first time I played with the Wii, flicked on an iPhone or got search results instantly from Google.
Few things blew me away
- How intuitive the controls (or lack of thereof) are. You just 'do'. The Wii was like this too but this felt more natural
- Being able to talk to my Xbox. I've never felt voice recognition was ready for mainstream. I was wrong - talking to my TV felt a bit like Star Trek modulo the computer voice.
- How much fun it was. My wife and I had as fun much goofing off by dancing around and playing around as much as competing.
I can't wait to see more games for it.
"How well doeth Xthboxth Kinect'th voith control handle thpeech impedimenth?"
There will be a special "Igor" version for that. But yeah, I have bluetooth voice integration in my car and I have a tough time trying to make the voice commands work ("call", "setup", etc.), because I am not a native English speaker and have an accent.