The History of the Xbox 360 Kinect | Past Mortem [SSFF]

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Written, Shot, & Edited by Derek Alexander & Grace Kramer

#stopskeletons #xbox #kinect

[Darxide]

13:21 Hearing Peter Molyneux talk about how "They promised us this, but we got none of that and it was just a cheap, striped down version in the end" is almost poetic. I wonder if the irony ever occurred to him.

[MegaConrad]

Only OGs will remember the title “Microsoft’s most successful failure”

[seamusburke]

So true story; I did Quality Assurance for Microsoft titles at one point (Nothing you would've wanted to have played, sorry) and we had to do what was called "Regression Testing" on 360 and XBox One titles.
Even though the Kinect had been discontinued at this point, you still had to make sure all the features still worked, so a significant portion of our work days was playing with the Kinect. And let me tell you; NOBODY hates the Kinect like play-testers do.

[DarkMProductions]

Whenever I go to a thrift store to look for cheap games, there are almost always two consistencies. The Wii Balance Board, and the Kinect.

[LordArikado]

The irony of Peter Molyneux, of all people, saying that Microsoft over-promised on what the Kinect could do, is hilarious as all hell.

[ProfDragonite]

"Hey I'm Derek, it's me Derek!"

Such honesty. Such happiness. Such joy. Never change, bro.

[jacobrzeszewski]

The fact that I use Kinect for full body tracking in VR is a testament to how innovative the technology was and still is.

[crazyinsane]

"Kinect adventures sold more than Halo 3"
Huh?
*One google search later*
. . . Kinect adventures sold 24 million compared to Halo 3's 11.87 million. . .

[CPS]

Kinect before release - "It's like Minority Report!"
Kinect after release - "It's like the Power Glove.."

[sanity-xr]

My only experience with the Kinect has been in amusement parks and children's play rooms back when I was like 12 years old. I maintain my view that the Kinect is perfect for those places as it wouldn't have to deal with controller abuse from kids that have no clue how to treat electronics.

[ChloeClements]

The greatest issue with Kinect was space. We do not all live a church hall or have giant living rooms with the couch 10ft from the TV. It was so annoying and frustrating. Then lets not forget we all have to live on the ground/first floor. The device was not perfect but had its fun moments and tech interesting but without being top spec expensive it was always going to frustrate and disappoint.

[charleschamp]

I got a Kinect a few weeks back, haven't used it yet, but I like how it looks in my display with my 360 and other accessories. All in all I'd say it was $1 well spent.

[ethantaylor]

"Steel Battalion...keep that in your back pocket."

NO! I don't wanna! Give me back that behemoth of a controller!

[ModernVintageGamer]

fantastic retrospective. thank you for this !

[Kizunaut]

Best thing about Kinect was when Nine Inch Nails used it to generate backing visuals during one of their tours

[Pixel-dan]

Excellent video!! I remember I bought Kinnect on whim because it was on a Black Friday sale. We got Fruit Ninja and Just Dance with it. We played those games quite a bit at first. My wife loved Just Dance. But it quickly started collecting dust. It's fun and works really well, but just wasnt enough to want to come back to.

Amazing info in this one! I love these retrospective pieces on various hardware and accessories!

Merry Christmas Derek and Grace!

[reidosfuscas]

At least we got the most incredible piece of software ever sold: the star wars dancing game

[flyingace]

As an engineer, I can tell you the Kinect was a wonderful tool for technical types. I cant begin to list all the projects that I saw in college alone that used the Kinect in some way. Never saw it used for games but plenty of other things.

[darkdrfter]

Ah Don Mattrick, the best salesman who sold me a PS4. He was so aggressive that I had to buy it. Sony should’ve given this guy a raise.

[lilGthePantherBoy]

"Transcend precision" is the 2010 2011 version of "NEGATIVE LATENCY"