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Posted on Tuesday, January 11 @ 10:13:02 Eastern by
Avatar Kinect promises to track the user's face in order to portray their expressions and mouth to other avatars. How the hell does it do that? I don't get it.... There's got to be some sort of explanation! Oh, wait there is!


As creepy as that is, I can't help but think about how else the technology behind Kinect can be furthered.

As a funny story, I have my computer set up adjacent to my TV. Before I started up Netflix, my Kinect recognized when the video said "Xbox Kinect." I suddenly found myself at the Kinect Hub.

It wasn't really frustrating. I just said "Kinect Dashboard" to get back, but I'm hoping for some type of update that helps the Kinect recognize your voice so random videos don't set your Xbox on fire or anything like that.
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  • UpAndAtThem
    UpAndAtThem

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Jan 11th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
    Why are they adding layers of technology to make your avatar look and move more like you, when they could just have it work as a normal webcam, and then your "avatar" would look and move EXACTLY like you, because it's video chat, which has been around for many years?

    Is this entire thing just so that kids can go online without worrying about seeing some wierdo pull out his wang? I assume that the avatars by design can't do that. Really, kids shouldn't be chatting online with people they don't know anyway.

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