Almost as soon as the door’s to this year’s CES opened, specualtion started running rampant when a picture of Microsoft’s booth, with the logo for something called Avatar Kinect splatter across it. What was it? A new game? The Kinect update we’ve been hearing about? Even better — it’s a new virtual chatroom.
Now, I hear that loud sigh from the collective masses, but in truth, Avatar Kinect, as revealed this morning by Microsoft’s head honcho Steve Balmmer has some pretty cool tech behind it. First, the basics, Avatar Kinect puts gamers, in the form of their avatars into several different scenes (like that festive winter wonderland over there) to chat with up to three other players.
Here’s the cool part though, Avatar Kinect comes with a pretty lengthy Kinect update, that allows the sensor to pick up on everything from facial expressions to finer movement. The new tech was demonstrated this morning during a Microsoft event.
The update, will also allow users to record chat sessions to upload them to social media networks such as Facebook. The real question is when we’ll see this new technology integrated into our games.
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So… it’s Playstation Home without any single/multiplayer/co-op games, public spaces, moving about, watching film trailers together.
It’s just a weird video chat without video.
MMMJ, THIS IS SO FAR BEYOND PLAYSTATION HOME. JUST SO YOU KNOW, XBOX IS SUPERIOR, GET OVER IT. I CAN’T WAIT TO TAKE MY XBOX VIDEO SHARING AND XBOX KINECT VIDEO CHAT TO A NEW LEVEL BY HAVING THE OPTION TO HAVE MY AVATAR BE A LIVE VIRTUAL ACTIVE REPRESENTATION OF EVERYTHING I AM DOING, WITHOUT THE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT I AM ACTUALLY LOOKING LIKE, WHAT I AM WEARING, AND WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON AT HOME.
Wow Zmind your a tool, and a worthless one at that lol. Did microsoft pay you to say that. Your so pathetic. How bout you leave your couch for once to talk to someone. Have fun with your kinect seeing how thats all microsoft is making any games for. And ill enjoy my shit tons of ps3 exclusives hahaha. Superior my ass your funny hehehe.
@caveman,
win!!. I mean literaly,, win. PS has won several cort cases where ms was shown to have a far less vibrant and less colorful picture. PS the move whoops conekts ass
Zminds is a crap talking, tool!