Is Kinect accurate and sophisticated enough for that kind of play?
We believe that it once had twice as many tracking points, and patents suggest that it was once able to read sign language and so on. What concessions have you had to push down the price point and turn several thousand pounds worth of motion-camera tech into a more affordable Microsoft product? Let’s just take the tracking points for example. When you start developing something – and obviously Kinect is a new technology – you don’t necessarily understand what it takes to track a human body and it’s a lot easier when you’re building something to start with tracking all of these different points and as you start building the stuff, you’re like well, to track everything we need for the human body, we don’t really need all of these points. It’s not that the technology can’t track as many points or that it has anything to do with cost, it’s just that any of the experiences right now, you can just get in and anything you move with your body, it instantly does on-screen. So, there’s nothing i
