POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The danger of Kinect : Re: The danger of Kinect Server Time
3 Sep 2024 17:13:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The danger of Kinect  
From: nemesis
Date: 31 Jan 2011 11:20:34
Message: <4d46e152$1@news.povray.org>
Nekar Xenos escreveu:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:15:53 +0200, nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> > Warp escreveu:
>>> > >   This problem with the Kinect was predicted even before it was 
>>> released,
>>> > > and it does indeed seem to happen:
>>> > >
>>> > > http://failblog.org/2010/11/10/epic-fail-video-kinect-fail/
>>> > > 
>>> http://failblog.org/2011/01/26/epic-fail-video-kinect-awareness-fail/
>>>
>>> > wiimote all over again...
>>>
>>>   Not really. The vast majority of Wii games can be played while 
>>> sitting,
>>> and you don't usually need to swing the controller around all that much.
>>> Just slight movements are enough.
>>
>> yes, it's essentially just a gyroscope.  But this wasn't well 
>> understood back
>> then and people would often actually pull the whole tennis player motion,
>> leading to the many "wiimote fail" videos on youtube.
>>
>> I don't know if back then the wiimote didn't come with the security 
>> cord...
>>
> 
> ..and boxing can be won very easily by holding the wii remotes like 
> drumsticks and playing drums. LOL!

I wouldn't know.  I too actually believed motion control was 1:1 for 
real and actually tried to pull out my best Foreman.  I almost went k.o. 
for real never to look back... lol

I have a much better time with tennis or golf.

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