r/XboxSeriesX • u/AutoModerator • May 19 '24

Looking Back in Xbox History - "The Kinect is officially dead, as Microsoft stops manufacturing the accessory" Historical Post Archive

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u/FomFrady95 May 19 '24

My wife and I went camping this weekend and in their visitor center they had this display full of sand. You could move the sand and there was a projector that would change the color of the sand to mimick how water would run on the new terrain. So if I dug a one inch path in the sand the projector would recognize the path and put a blue light on that sand to make it look like a river.

When I looked at how they were watching my movements there was a Kinect. So the Kinect was monitoring my movements in the sand, judging depth and elevation of the sand and then telling the projector where to and not to put water. Blew my mind.

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u/OZymandisR May 19 '24

The kinect itself was a great piece of hardware but gaming wasn't the way to utilise it.

I remember the Milo fake demo at E3.

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u/kizzgizz May 24 '24

That for me was more disturbing than anything lol