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We got a kinect for Christmas and one day it just... Disappeared. Gone. Without a trace. And it never made sense to me. Until today. Bill Gates BROKE INTO MY HOUSE AND TOOK MY KINECT TO COVER UP HIS LIES.
I feel like higher-ups genuinely thought it was possible and promised it to the public before ever consulting the dev team if it was even possible. I can imagine the horrified dev team seeing the E3 presentation and cursing at the screen.
@@gloriouseagle433 I mean to be fair they were extremely inexperienced in marketing and better as devs. It seemed like they knew what they wanted and just couldn't get there in time as they were constantly asked about features that they did want but we're unable to differentiate expectations from reality. Even now it's getting updated to include more of what was promised.
Because realistically everything they promised wasn't that "difficult" but putting it all together was extremely difficult in terms of time. They didn't create a movie to fake everyone they just promised more features than they could give on release
I know we didn’t know better back in 2009, but hearing that Peter Molyneux lied about something fills me with a truly profound sense of complete apathy
The worst part is Eddy blaming Microsoft for Molyneux's obvious and blatant lies. If it wasn't capable, why did they "program" a fake game/experience without the hardware and fake voice performances? He knew, he lied like always and then deflected the blame.
I played Kinect with my sister all the time, and it sucked but only because our parents didn't understand that walking in front of us while there was a game going on meant that the entire thing would break and sometimes we would have to restart the game.
"The biggest lie of my childhood" Eddy, my guy, we all know the biggest lie of your childhood was the time D.A.R.E. promised laser tag and unlimited pizza.
My sister and I wanted a Wii for years (*all* of our friends had one) and somehow our parents translated this into “Surely they want an Xbox Kinect” even though we’d never even heard of it, and the way we found out we’d gotten it-at the end of the day on Christmas because it was too stuck behind the tree for us to see earlier-feels fitting. Also Kinectimals personally betrayed me by crashing and losing my save data on the second-to-last sub level on the final ice mountain and I have never forgiven Microsoft for it. I still don’t know how the game ends
As a child I spent hours on these games and actually 'beat' Kinectimals. I think how it worked was once you explored enough areas with your animal buddy you got to like a mountain where you met a golden cub - I can't remember what animal it was. But anyways as a kid who wasn't allowed a pet, loved cats, and had a lot of time to kill, I greatly enjoyed it.
I always hated the phrase anything or anywhare no one ever means it. When my x gf and I moved to a new town so she could take her dream job I said I was bored she said why are u bored u can literally do anything u want. I proceeded to list 50 plus things we couldn't do.
HOLY SHIT, mine did that too. I thought I was the only one. And anywhere I tried moving it wouldn’t work because of shadows being detected as solid objects, essentially making the Kinect unusable.
@@specticulrtainment1809 he wouldn't jump :/ something about not having knees and also being inanimate and also pls stop climbing on me oof ouch it hurts
Dude I played Kinectables, and it was almost impossible to play the game. Like my entire family would play this game and no matter what we did we always failed the challenges and it was super frustrating because as kids you want to basically be friends with these animals and do the best with them, but it’s heart breaking when you can’t do the best for them and they literally get sad and depressed. The only time it actually worked was the app game, which was a lot better.
Every single company at E3 did the exact same thing. Did you see the Wii Twilight Princess demo? Whatshisname was using the Wiimote and Nunchuk like a real bow and arrow (much like what you see here in the PS Move ad in this vid), but it's just point and click. They can always argue that it was going to be part of the game but they scrapped it. It's still shady, but that's the video game industry as a whole and it has always been that way. The best thing to do is not buy it.
I think the Billy Crystal thing was them trying to also appeal to the older demographic, which the Wii tapped into perfectly at that time. His comment about "not having to find the right buttons" really reads like that. I'll be honest, there is something to that concept if done right. I have the oculus quest now, and had my dad try golf +. He never plays video games, at least since he played Wii golf. He was doing better than me, right away. Kinect failed, obviously, but this general concept is finally becoming a reality with vr.
What? Why? What the hell? Get off your goddamn phone if you're trying to actively protest. You're not doing it right. You're wasting your time and effort like this.
@@gentlemanscarecrow5987 That's what I was thinking but I haven't seen it in awhile, so wasn't sure if the premise was what I remembered. The one with Jon Hamm right?
To be fair to MS, the kinect was made of ground breaking tech. it was the first functioning and accurate point cloud tracking system, it could differentiate people in the same frame, even if they were partially occluded. it was blob tracking on steroids. i still see people use the kinect and point cloud tracking today and its been over 10 years. And on top of all that, they released an awesome SDK for the kinect making research a thousand times easier. i blame all of the lies and bullshit on peter molyneux and MS's marketing team for somehow dropping the ball on ground breaking tech that worked really well
After all the lies they where telling about Linux and open source in the 90ies and 00ies how would anyone believe anything they say anymore? They have a long path ahead of them to regain any trust.
I do remember an arcade cabinet Keisatsukan / Police 911 where it has a motion sensor, so you have to move your body to hide and peek on corners, sofa, cars. Pretty good game with pretty snappy motion sensor. My legs were jelly after playing the game, super fun !
8:46 fun fact about the Watch Dogs game, they did make the game that pretty on PC but at the last minute they decided to gimp the game to look closer to the xbox because they were worried with the console's launch it would make the console seem outdated by the time it was released, not to mention lengthen the loading times on consoles. so yea the e3 footage isn't edited, there's a mod that's a single line of code that brings back the fancier options.
OMG I REMEMBER THIS There was this one video where this girl was trying to figure out what outfit to wear, she was video chatting with her friend and they had like this virtual closet that she could like “test out” her clothes virtually. That was the thing that got me the most hyped for this project...and then they just _didn’t_
my siblings and i won an xbox kinect at an arcade in 2012 ish, and i got kinect adventures for it. i think what happened in the macys demo was that the environment was messing with it or the setup wasnt done correctly, because i played kinect adventures all through my childhood and its one of my most beloved memories. it wasn't perfect, and got weird at times, but never like what happened in that video
I never had a Kinect, but my parents would take me to the Exchange on Base while they went shopping and I’d wander to the electronics section and play Kinect Adventures. I only have fond memories of it, but looking at all the interviews and everyone else’s experiences, I can’t help but laugh.
i grew up with a 360, i still use it sometimes even though i havent touched the kinect in ages. i loved just dance and kinect adventures, and because i never saw E3, they were some of the coolest games of my childhood. i had to convince my boyfriend that the xbox ever even ran just dance since he only knows it on the switch. now, adventures is 50p in CeX. i miss being little, i miss thinking that disney kinect game was amazing. but i still have a kinect and a lot of memories
They must have workshopped it and came out with a better kinect because a couple of my friends had them and we played just dance and some kind of Disney park adventure thing without a problem. In fact the only problem was that we wanted to play so often that the friends that owned them got tired of them and never wanted to play💀
I remember a bunch of my friends having the xbox connect, but not as much as I remember all of us trying to play it once or twice, either getting bored or frustrated, and then playing minecraft on the xbox for the next like 6-7 hours
TheGhostlyAxe I’m 18 now, I was in like kindergarten or some shit when it came out. Now I’m heading off to college and haven’t touched a console in years. PC is where I stay.
For sure. Remember my mom telling me I couldn’t have one because other parents were freaking out about the camera never turning off and Microsoft spying on families
@aaronsdavis They kinda did. The cameras generate a sort of topographical map of what they see in the living room and one guy playing around with the system noticed that he could see the bump of his package on the kinetic footage. However """journalists""" wrote headlines about Kinetic seeing through clothing.
The most interesting thing about all of this is that the Kinect tech did work, or at least the camera part of it did. The Kinect was actually the go to camera for a lot of robotics projects for a while because there wasn't much else out there that could map out a 3D space as well as it. The problem was that the 360 didn't have anywhere near the processing power to parse the data that the Kinect was reading, so compromises were made, reducing the fidelity of the 3D mapping, lowering the refresh rate, etc. resulting in games functioning horribly with it.
Just a slight correction, there's always been a lot of stuff that could map a space better than a Kinect, it wasn't any miracle sensor. It became the go-to for robotics just because it was decent, but mass produced (so really cheap) and easy to use... Other solutions were way better and more refined, but also more expensive and complex....
@@C0DERedEdits This is the best thread under this video. A golden needle in the haystack, now time to go search for the other golden needles as recommended by Albert Einstein (source: the internet)
SlyCedix cool, the camera works. But the point wasn’t to have a good quality resolution, the point was to have good motion controls. The Xbox 360 was great but the Kinect was a fail in almost every way
@@krioisawesome6382 They were a shared canonical universe, and she wasn't a successful singer yet. She was probably just hype to be getting paid some more.
Remember when they had the “preview” commercials for the Kinect and one of them was a surgeon using it to change CAT scan views mid-surgery? That would have been disastrous if actually implemented anywhere
My best friends actually had the kinnect adventures and tbh we had an awesome time with it? We played it a lot with only downside being our parents being annoyed at our jumping in the living room until late in the evening
When companies started talking about motion controls, like the wii & kinects etc, my reaction was "I don't want to move." so I never got any of them lol
you awakened a memory I had forgotten about. The only game I remember playing more than once with the connect was the wipeout game, and it wasn't even that good
I remember having a lot of fun playing beach volleyball with the Kinect the strategy was just to move tho if you were moving in any way shape or form you hit it and if you weren’t moving you missed that’s how it worked 😂
Just a fun fact: the clown song you played is called “Entrance of the Gladiators” by Czech composer Julius Fučík for the Austro-Hungarian Army. It’s just one of my favorite classical music facts that this song that could only be for clowns is actually about Gladiators entering the arena where they’re about to die.
Kinect Adventures built my childhood. It worked great for me and it was amazing. Even more so than that was Kinect party, even though it scared me when I left the TV on and heard people chatting on the other side of the tv. I still play Kinect to this day and it's great.
Not gonna lie, Kinect Adventures (Even though it wasn’t what it was told to be) was still one of the most fun childhood game memories I have, I remember playing it all the time and loving it.
My Kinect is still on top of my TV. The week I bought it I also got a privacy cover to cover the camera, so essentially it's been sitting there with the camera covered up for years now. LOL Microsoft had me sold
Yeah Kinects have been used in a lot of research applications too, they're pretty good at capturing positional data. Shite for gameplay. But good for research with some aftermarket processing and noise reduction.
I had a couple friends who rigged up a kinect sensor to their computer. They invited me around one time, scanned me, then later handed me a 3D printed resin bust of myself. It was pretty cool.
I know that Milo clip was a lie because the Kinect can’t track you when you’re that close to it. With that being said playing Just Dance was much better on the Kinect compared to the Wii.
Also, the reflection of the woman showed on the screen was obviously a prerecorded clip in front of a green screen, because you couldn’t see any of the shit that was behind her.
