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3 Sep 2024 17:19:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The danger of Kinect  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 31 Jan 2011 01:22:43
Message: <op.vp5tbzkbufxv4h@go-dynamite>
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!

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-


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