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  Re: The danger of Kinect  
From: nemesis
Date: 31 Jan 2011 11:16:04
Message: <4d46e044@news.povray.org>
Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New escreveu:
>>> The other games I've seen are rather lame, tho.  Hopefully they'll 
>>> get better, but it's hard to imagine how you're gonna take something 
>>> like Batman and turn it into a kinect game.
>>
>> you won't.  New controllers mean new kinds of games, not adapting old 
>> stuff to the new scheme.
> 
> Yep, that was my point.
> 
>> also, moving the protagonist is hard without an analog directional 
>> pad:  do you run into your screen or do you simply do the moonwalk and 
>> simulate you're running?
> 
> I suspect we'll eventually come up with a standard set of gestures, just 
> like everyone uses a mouse to point, and everyone uses the left stick to 
> move and the right stick to look around.  Sort of "Hacker and the Ants" 
> kind of thing.

but a gesture to simulate running is no more 1:1 motion control -- which 
was Kinect's selling point.

And in the case of gestures for that, I'd still take an easy push on the 
analog directional with the finger rather than pushing my leg or arm in 
some direction all the time to control running...

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