Submitted by The Xbox 360 Kinect may be designed for games, but its true potential lies in Apps. Because Kinect has full-body tracking, gesture recognition, and specialized microphones that are good for hands-free voice recognition, new types of non-game apps that have never been seen anywhere except maybe in Star Trek could come into being. “Computer, show me the best Italian restaurants in North Beach.” Kinect could then show these on the screen, and you could flick through this list with gestures, minority report style. What app is this? Why, Yelp for Kinect, of course.
It could be a nice idea if Kinect wasn’t so broken by design (see E3 footage)
The Xbox 360 Kinect may be designed for games, but its true potential lies in Apps. Because Kinect has full-body tracking, gesture recognition, and specialized microphones that are good for hands-free voice recognition, new types of non-game apps that have never been seen anywhere except maybe in Star Trek could come into being. “Computer, show me the best Italian restaurants in North Beach.” Kinect could then show these on the screen, and you could flick through this list with gestures, minority report style. What app is this? Why, Yelp for Kinect, of course.
Yeah. A stupid Windows-based computer interpreting Picard’s “engage” gesture as “Activate Self-Destruct Device”
60 seconds later. *BOOM*
Well, Picard’s Enterprise was rather shoddily constructed, wasn’t it?
Oh, wait, they do: http://creators.xna.com
Not Kinect-related; geared towards games; but there nonetheless. Yay research!
From what I hear its expected to expand onto pc, tv’s and other home devices.
Don’t know if its a MS push or another company with comperable tech.
Either way, I’m sure non gaming downloading service is on the dockit