Kinect 2 will read your lips

[ZAP_Tech]

Bwahaha

“Hello Quinton, my objective analysis of your facial expressions indicates you’re depressed today. It has been 8.32 days since you last smiled.”

That is a bit too freaky for my liking its like that Computer in the movie the ISLAND where the main character had to much sodium is his blood.

So if you dont talk like an american how will you be affected. I have to start speaking without really moving my lips now

This could be a problem as they dont understand plain english, i know thing cause my sister works there as had to change the way she says thing for them to understand.

i rate the second kinect will be much better well i hope so

Yep it will cause it will do all the ting s the first promised to, but no of the things the it promises to, Microsofts motto i believe, make promise and keep half.

As a rule of thumb, every second operating system that's released by MS is always a fail. I will go as far as to say that I will be extremely disappointed if Windows 8 is NOT a fail.

Yes MS does make alot of mistakes, but dont fault them too much for it we get great things from thier failures except the Zune (they scrapped that), So windows 8 might not be a failure entirely, but it be a very good stepping stone on their next OS. As vista was to 7.

But what about if you have been drinking and wanna play, but are slurring too much? I ask this, because, well, it could be a problem for me and some other gamers I know...

It could be remedied easily, they might miss the with the lip reading functionality and being drunk may be the only time you could play.

Geez...I assume Kinect 3 can tell when your GF's horny...

Aah it would get it totally wrong, but atleast lip reading works now... She just found out you cheating on her cause you forgot to turn you kinect off and it was streaming to her... SAD SAD SAD.

[Charrgrill]

Somehow I can't see what the selling point is of lip reading in a gaming setting. I imagine it'll be a brief quirky craze and then become completely obsolete, just like those brain wave readers that were supposed to completely replace the mouse & keyboard, or at least offer a huge boost to efficiency.
Oh well, time will tell won't it?

[wheunis]

Somehow I can't see what the selling point is of lip reading in a gaming setting. I imagine it'll be a brief quirky craze and then become completely obsolete, just like those brain wave readers that were supposed to completely replace the mouse & keyboard, or at least offer a huge boost to efficiency.
Oh well, time will tell won't it?

I don't think it was meant as a selling or feature point, specifically.
I think they were just free-balling it to give perspective as to the type of improvement we can expect from moving the device onto an internal bus.

I think they would've personally done better if they had said that it would actively track your eye-movements, and fingers, to within XX accuracy.

Seriously... they could've showcased this as "Minority Report Controls Incoming!!!"

[Ze Snake]

But... are they mentioning this because kinect 1 has such a limited number of really cool games? I'm waiting for a game that uses both the controller and the kinect seamlessly. Even if its gimmicky. Like a third person game where it only tracks the top half of your body and your character on screen does the same movements your head makes. Small things but it makes a kinect more enjoyable for your every-day game, without waiting for silly 'games on rails' through a 'kinect feature' rollercoaster game.

Wheres the kinect controlled puzzle games like disarm the bomb or surgery kinect something fun but different.

[kaytel]

Maybe they can make it able to operate over a wider range of distances. That would be worthwhile feature. I'd humbly suggest that Bill's mansion is not the typical environment in which it will be used (even if he does claim his living isn't that big really).

I saw how that movie ended. No way am I getting my lips read.

Just don't take your Xbox into space.

[Mo0dn!ty]

You forgot about Windows 3.1 (bad) before Windows 95

[fayainz]

I can see a Beatbox game coming out...

[fernandodb]

I was thinking of buying a kinect... but it seems like I will have to do some further research. I thought the kiddies would like it

[Ze Snake]

Kinect is fun but the limited space of your home and other factors limit the fun. We love playing Fruit ninja teams of 2 to beat high scores... Although multiplayer bomberman and castle crashers without kinect also rocks.