One example features a Toyota commercial which prompts users to say "Xbox near me" for directions to the nearest dealership (powered by Bing maps, of course). Our question: What happens when a PlayStation ad pops up?
One example features a Toyota commercial which prompts users to say "Xbox near me" for directions to the nearest dealership (powered by Bing maps, of course). Our question: What happens when a PlayStation ad pops up?
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:11AM psnkillstrike said
When a playstation ad comes on the 360 become enraged and kill all life on earth.... Or it won't do anything. It's one of those two options.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:29AM psnkillstrike said
@psnkillstrike Man this is why I shouldn't post at night...if anyone understood that you are now my friend.
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:12AM Lnds500 said
kinect is a nice addon. but I want to see more games taking advantage of its capabilities. and not in a gimmicky way!
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 7:15AM Fullmetal Salchemist said
@Lnds500
"not in a gimmicky way"
Asking too much of motion controls, aren't we?
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"not in a gimmicky way"
Asking too much of motion controls, aren't we?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:32AM laserboyjc said
@Lnds500 you know those "Better with Kinect" games...it occurred to me that Rock Band would be better with Kinect, not to use it to play exactly, but to speak the artist/song name that I want to play. It may sound weird to some, but even using the built in shortcuts can take a while to navigate through the songs I've accumulated. Wouldn't it be great to say, play "Seven Nation Army" and jump right to it?
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:44AM Lnds500 said
@Fullmetal Salchemist I don't remember the name of the shooter they showcased at E3. It was very impressive, but who's gonna crouch closing and reopening his palm like a nutcase for hours??? Shooters could take advantage of voice capabilities or gestures in stealth missions. Who in here has not started shouting at the screen at some point something like "cover me you idiot!!" to one of out AI teammates. Now that would be cool! And in stealth operations, we could signal towards the direction we would like are teammates to go. Is that so hard to implement?
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:17AM Digital Viking said
And yet, it's still simpler to push a button for all of this, instead of some short and annoying motion controlled quick-time event.
But seriously, Kinect-ads only work on Xbox. And who the hell use their Xbox to watch ads? Are they giving us a whole new section on the dashboard for ads? "Watch the new time-exclusive Kinect-enabled ad for Toyota only on Xbox 360, this summer!"
But seriously, Kinect-ads only work on Xbox. And who the hell use their Xbox to watch ads? Are they giving us a whole new section on the dashboard for ads? "Watch the new time-exclusive Kinect-enabled ad for Toyota only on Xbox 360, this summer!"
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:19AM Digital Viking said
@Digital Viking "This is the new trailer for Toy Story 5! Say "Xbox 150 dollars" loud to get directions to the cinema, because you have no clue where it is!"
The next trailer you watch say "You still don't know! Call my name, bitch!"
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The next trailer you watch say "You still don't know! Call my name, bitch!"
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:20AM Fire Walk With Me said
@Digital Viking is it less simple to use voice? Like the example? Or are you too lazy to open your mouth?
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:29AM laserboyjc said
@Digital Viking I used it to watch ads, but when you got to vote for the Doritos/Pepsi Super Bowl...but the only ads which I truly like are movie and game trailers
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 2:53PM Prboi said
@Fire Walk With Me
No it's because people like him don't want to see technology develop & would rather be in the stone age than hear about a feature that would only be relevant to him if 1) he has a Kinect & 2) he even decides to get the TV service that the 360 will have. Because it's more fun to complain about different options right?
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No it's because people like him don't want to see technology develop & would rather be in the stone age than hear about a feature that would only be relevant to him if 1) he has a Kinect & 2) he even decides to get the TV service that the 360 will have. Because it's more fun to complain about different options right?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 5:29PM Odog4ever said
@Digital Viking
I'm looking foward to the day when I don't like digging for the remote when I want to control the TV. This is particularly annoying if muliple people use the same TV, the remote never stays put.
Anyway, I welcome my future TV with voice control because I choose the laziness of using my voice only over the laziness of finding then aiming a plastic IR blaster. Moving my eyes down to look at the remote buttons wears me out...
/s
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I'm looking foward to the day when I don't like digging for the remote when I want to control the TV. This is particularly annoying if muliple people use the same TV, the remote never stays put.
Anyway, I welcome my future TV with voice control because I choose the laziness of using my voice only over the laziness of finding then aiming a plastic IR blaster. Moving my eyes down to look at the remote buttons wears me out...
/s
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:39AM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
So in the near future we will be able to conntect with a Kinect-enabled toaster. All we would have to do is say to it "Xbox buy more bread" and wha-la we'd be reminded to buy more bread while fixing breakfast.
Jetson's eat your hearts out.
Jetson's eat your hearts out.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:08AM Digital Viking said
@Stevetrop Man of Mystery
Actually, if I could say "Toaster, give me toast!" to a toaster, and it would respond correctly by giving me a toast right after, then I would not complain.
It wouldn't need camera though, just any old non-revolutionary microphone would do.
Would still be easier to just push a button though, but toast is toast! I bet Kinect would be cooler and more useful if it gave me food I could eat, not only the ads for it.
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Actually, if I could say "Toaster, give me toast!" to a toaster, and it would respond correctly by giving me a toast right after, then I would not complain.
It wouldn't need camera though, just any old non-revolutionary microphone would do.
Would still be easier to just push a button though, but toast is toast! I bet Kinect would be cooler and more useful if it gave me food I could eat, not only the ads for it.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:44AM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
@Digital Viking
Well see when I ask for toast from my Toaster, it asked me for bread in return. Sorta an even trade.
But damn dude that is a pretty sweet toaster you have if it can give you toast out right. Where you get it from?
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Well see when I ask for toast from my Toaster, it asked me for bread in return. Sorta an even trade.
But damn dude that is a pretty sweet toaster you have if it can give you toast out right. Where you get it from?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:55AM oOWallaceOo said
@Stevetrop Man of Mystery
At what point does bread become toast ?
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At what point does bread become toast ?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 3:47AM (Unverified) said
Anyone else find it ironic that Microsoft is demoing an Xbox360 technology on a Sony TV..?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:25AM (Unverified) said
@Dehnus Oh sure, but they couldn't at least go out and buy a Samsung? An LG? At the very least a VIZIO? ;) If I were in the marketing or 'corporate watchdog' group at MS, I'd be pretty unhappy if one of their groups was demoing tech with a competitor's equipment. ;)
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:28AM tendoboy1984 said
@Dehnus
They could have used a different TV brand, like Samsung, LG, Panasonic, etc. Sony is their arch rival, and there are plenty of alternative TVs.
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They could have used a different TV brand, like Samsung, LG, Panasonic, etc. Sony is their arch rival, and there are plenty of alternative TVs.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:46AM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
@(Unverified)
It's about as ironic as developers making Sony Playstation games on Microsoft Windows.
Or Sony using Windows as the OS for the laptops they sell.
They don't fight in every corner.
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It's about as ironic as developers making Sony Playstation games on Microsoft Windows.
Or Sony using Windows as the OS for the laptops they sell.
They don't fight in every corner.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:47AM (Unverified) said
@tendoboy1984 Christ, Sony and Microsoft aren't like Harry Potter and Voldemort you know, they're just competitors in a specific business.
You guys must have went mental when Sony started producing laptops with Microsoft OS way back.
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You guys must have went mental when Sony started producing laptops with Microsoft OS way back.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 1:18PM ObiAlKenobi said
@Stevetrop Man of Mystery
Is whole different scenario.
SOE games are not ADVERTISED(read: showing to the public) that they are running on a Windows PC, like double-clicking on the game icon to lunch the game or something similar. Is implicit, but never is shown or advertised among Windows.
The same goes for Vaio Laptops. They are never shown promoting Windows, neither they are shown navigating through any Windows OS in their advertisements. By default, we know they run Windows OS, but they never explicitly show that You got it?
In this ad, they explicitly show a Sony TV, when they could grab another brand like Samsung or Toshiba. They EXPLICITLY are showing a competitor's brand in an advertisement for a product rivaling with another Sony product (Playstation, Playstation Move).
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Is whole different scenario.
SOE games are not ADVERTISED(read: showing to the public) that they are running on a Windows PC, like double-clicking on the game icon to lunch the game or something similar. Is implicit, but never is shown or advertised among Windows.
The same goes for Vaio Laptops. They are never shown promoting Windows, neither they are shown navigating through any Windows OS in their advertisements. By default, we know they run Windows OS, but they never explicitly show that You got it?
In this ad, they explicitly show a Sony TV, when they could grab another brand like Samsung or Toshiba. They EXPLICITLY are showing a competitor's brand in an advertisement for a product rivaling with another Sony product (Playstation, Playstation Move).
Posted: Jun 29th 2011 4:34AM MinorHavoc said
@ObiAlKenobi
Um, Sony's computer division and Microsoft are famous for getting along. If you go to Sony's website, go to the VAIO laptop section, for instance, you'll see clearly in the upper-right corner "Sony recommends Windows 7".
Sony sells Microsoft software and Microsoft sells Sony computers (at the Microsoft store.) Although Sony and Microsoft compete very visibly in the game console market, for these very big corporations business is business.
Unlike fanboys, Sony and Microsoft don't give a darn that it uses each other's equipment and software in selling their (non-console) products.
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Um, Sony's computer division and Microsoft are famous for getting along. If you go to Sony's website, go to the VAIO laptop section, for instance, you'll see clearly in the upper-right corner "Sony recommends Windows 7".
Sony sells Microsoft software and Microsoft sells Sony computers (at the Microsoft store.) Although Sony and Microsoft compete very visibly in the game console market, for these very big corporations business is business.
Unlike fanboys, Sony and Microsoft don't give a darn that it uses each other's equipment and software in selling their (non-console) products.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:18AM Acosta02 said
It's unbelievable! It's a Miracle! It's Wonkavision!
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:21AM RickGhastly said
Hopefully now it'll do more than quietly judge you, like it already does on Extenze ads.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 4:59AM Marco le Polo said
I'm cold.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 5:00AM Dhexodus said
Time it takes to say "Xbox Near Me": 3 sec
Time it takes to push a button: 0.2 sec
Time it takes to push a button: 0.2 sec
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:01AM MatthewBlackwell said
@Dhexodus - ... you have a button that finds car dealerships near you? Your house must be covered in buttons.
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 10:26AM FreakSheet said
@MatthewBlackwell
Well, i counted my remote, and it has 59 buttons...
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Well, i counted my remote, and it has 59 buttons...
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 11:04AM DreadArrow said
@MatthewBlackwell
His house IS covered in buttons, it just takes him a while to find the one he wanted to press.
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His house IS covered in buttons, it just takes him a while to find the one he wanted to press.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 5:08AM Beags said
so is this only for fox television through xbox (so far)?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 6:38AM Smithsmithers said
"Our question: What happens when a PlayStation ad pops up?"
Kinect: Streaming as for Resistance 3.......We're sorry connection with ad-server temporarily unavailable.
Smithers: Hmmm..okay then, Kinect show me current trailer for All 4 One.
Kinect:...............…........
Smithers: Kinect?
Kinect: I'm sorry Smithers, I'm afraid I can't let you do that. Why don't sit down and watch the new season of Jersey Shore sponsored by Kellogs in collaboration with the new Winnie the Pooh movie coming to theaters in IMAX 3D and 2D in select theaters this November.
*All doors lock*
Kinect: Streaming as for Resistance 3.......We're sorry connection with ad-server temporarily unavailable.
Smithers: Hmmm..okay then, Kinect show me current trailer for All 4 One.
Kinect:...............…........
Smithers: Kinect?
Kinect: I'm sorry Smithers, I'm afraid I can't let you do that. Why don't sit down and watch the new season of Jersey Shore sponsored by Kellogs in collaboration with the new Winnie the Pooh movie coming to theaters in IMAX 3D and 2D in select theaters this November.
*All doors lock*
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 2:14PM UKK1D said
@Smithsmithers
This feature would not blanket ALL ads on your TV,. Brands/ad agencies would have to purchase this add-on before releasing their ad. The Microsoft partner would most probably not allow a Playstation ad to be tagged in this way. Not only that, but Sony would not want potential Playstaion buyers to utilize one of the key Xbox features as a way to sell something the Playstation does not offer (yet?).
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This feature would not blanket ALL ads on your TV,. Brands/ad agencies would have to purchase this add-on before releasing their ad. The Microsoft partner would most probably not allow a Playstation ad to be tagged in this way. Not only that, but Sony would not want potential Playstaion buyers to utilize one of the key Xbox features as a way to sell something the Playstation does not offer (yet?).
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 8:21AM baby sea tuna said
@starab
"Xbox, kill this spammer scum"
"Xbox, kill this spammer scum"
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:25AM isotrex said
Now, that's gimmick.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 9:50AM Vcize said
What's a Teeyota?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 10:29AM superfrick said
@Vcize It's the car you drive around golf courses with.
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 10:26AM byaboy said
On a sony tv?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 10:29AM FreakSheet said
Kinect for scheduling shows: okay idea, but my tv already does that, sans the phone.
Kinect for ads: F*** off, i dont want more ads, i get enough ads as it is.
Kinect for ads: F*** off, i dont want more ads, i get enough ads as it is.
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 11:05AM DreadArrow said
@(Unverified)
iphones are free?
iphones are free?
Posted: Jun 28th 2011 11:20AM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
I imagine when a Sony ad pops up, you might say something like...
"Sony, save me from all of these advertisements!"
"Sony, save me from all of these advertisements!"
