Microsoft: Kinect Will Play Nice With Windows 8

11 responses to “Microsoft: Kinect Will Play Nice With Windows 8”

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   Zambayoshi

   September 5, 2012 at 12:31 pm

   I can’t see the mass appeal of a device that requires more movement (read effort) on the part of the user to input commands than does a mouse and keyboard. Sure it has some specialist applications that are quite interesting but I’d venture to say that your average PC user isn’t going to give a crap about Kinect support.

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      Anthelme

      September 5, 2012 at 12:36 pm

      Correct

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      SOX

      September 5, 2012 at 12:40 pm

      I could see interesting uses for the Kinect in a HTPC set up

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      crotchdot

      September 5, 2012 at 2:38 pm

      Everything I’ve read in forums makes me think the average PC user is going to skip Windows 8 completely and stick with 7 until Microsoft release the successor.

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         Slek

         September 5, 2012 at 3:16 pm

         And if the successor is crap….Ubuntu?

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         Aron

         September 6, 2012 at 11:26 am

         Because the average PC user visits forums… If opinion on online forums is anything to go by the Nintendo Wii would’ve sold terribly, everyone on the internet hated the thing but the mass market loved it.

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2. 

   Lucas

   September 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm

   Kinect will have nothing on Leap Motion in Windows 8 🙂

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   markd

   September 5, 2012 at 3:48 pm

   That’s great, if the kinect was about 10% the size and 100 times more accurate. Oh wait, that’s leap 😀

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4. 

   Joel

   September 5, 2012 at 10:17 pm

   Lol, this aint gonna work.

   Kinect aint accurate for starters,
   Then there is the problem that most PC’s are mostly in small tight rooms like the office or bedroom so cant really see it workin.
   Then the biggest problem is that Kinect is for Console gaming, and spending that extra money just so you can navigate ur computer when most people would rather the mouse and keyboard.

   Its like the consoles, people are trying to change it from handheld controllers to kinect like ones, when the problem is we love using our controllers that we have been using since the 90’s(playstation), same goes for PC, we have been using the Mouse and Keyboard since the 70’s or 80’s and we still want it that way.

   Gaming is supposed to be relaxing and fun, not make you want to stop playing cause your swinging your body around like someone having a seizure.

   Not to mention that no one can make a good Kinect game. Why spend money on kinect when in a month your mostly gonna be using Kinect for its unresponsive voice command untill you stop using it and forget its there cause you love your controller.

   Plus we are happy with Windows 7, why make an OS that resembles the Xbox so much, bloody over Microsofts stratagies. Over Kinect aswell.

   Is Sony the only company that cares about there gamers and not the money.

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      Aron

      September 6, 2012 at 11:28 am

      “Aint”…really? This support is not only for gaming on Windows 8…it will enable things like voice control on home cinema PCs, and better speech to text support etc. There are many possibilities.

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5. 

   Aron

   September 6, 2012 at 11:30 am

   Also, controllers from the 90’s? Really? If anything Microsoft has been backing away from Kinect recently, they aren’t really forcing it onto people. Haven’t seen an ad since it launched.

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