Maginomicon

I...

freaking...

knew it.

...

Seriously.

http://www.fullmotion.org/2011/10/kinect-swords-presentation.html

(Click the link above, and read either the presentation widget's slides or the full transcript, depending on what your attention span will allow. It's worth it.)

@Maginomicon

I forgot basic HTML didn't work in posts here. Here's the link:
http://www.fullmotion.org/2010/11/kinect-swords.html

Now all we need is to get Move controller to work with Kinect on the 360's end (which is conceivably possible, albeit harder with Kinect's RGB camera) and we can finally get some meaningful "core" gameplay out of Kinect.

Oh, wait, no, you won't, because the Move controller doesn't have directional controls (a Dpad or joystick)

(NOTE: Yes, I know the Nav controller has them. The Move controller doesn't.).

To refresh, in order to get a meaningful Kinect experience in a 3D environment, you need the complete set of abilities of a modern world interaction device.
* Instant Response Navigation (digital or analog, preferably analog),
* Instant Response Selection (the selecting of an object to do something with), and
* Instant Response Interaction (choosing a specific thing to do with that object).

The most basic form of UI interaction, the computer mouse, does all of these things (albeit for a 2D desktop environment)
* Navigation of a 2D plane (the surface of the screen)
* Selection via left click (selects an object)
* Interaction via right click (brings up a menu of options)

(NOTE: double-left-click is just a shortcut to something in the right-click menu)

We are finally at the point where we can transition to navigation of 3D environments with the same fidelity that the computer mouse has for 2D environments.

We are finally at the point where our hands can actually be treated like HANDS in terms of selecting and interacting with a 3D environment in the same way the mouse pointer acted like a finger in a 2D environment.

...and it won't happen. Why?

Because Microsoft doesn't give a SHIT about advancing to a new HCI (Human Computer Interaction) paradigm. All they care about is THE MONEY LEBOWSKI! All they care about is making it more approachable by as many new markets as possible. Well congratulations Microsoft, you've done that. However, there's no reason you COULDN'T of ALSO made an instant-response hand-analogue device for Kinect. You didn't make one because of your GODDAMN "NO CONTROLLER REQUIRED" TAG LINE! You let MARKETING control your R&D department's goals!

Thank you, you sell-outs.

It's not too late though Microsoft. You can still make a hand-analogue device for Kinect. More info about the above can be found here.

@Maginomicon

Seriously? My comment was voted down?

I describe at that link EXACTLY how an FPS could be done on Kinect.

If your gripe is about it augmenting Kinect with controller, and so it doesn't fit with the "spirit" of Kinect, get over it. No piece of technology should be limited by it's marketing tagline.

"I can't use Kinect for our real games; there just isn't a place for our current FPSes on there," Carmack said.

Wanna bet?

http://www.fullmotion.org/2010/11/kinect-swords.html

Dibs on colloquially calling it "WiiMot+".

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"WiiMot+"

Maybe I didn't make myself clear.

I am exactly...
http://www.fullmotion.org/2009/12/preliminary-analysis-project-natal.html
...the kind of person...
http://www.fullmotion.org/2010/02/preliminary-analysis-project-natal-part.html
...Molyneux would want focus testing it.

( If the links above didn't show up then I don't know what do except point to the main site: Full Motion .org )

I'll focus test for Natal any day. I'm exactly the kind of person he's looking for:

Wee! Cartoon time-dilation go!

In Toon World, children can go from conception to giant-wooden-sword-wielding in APPARENTLY "a couple of months".

This wonderful trailer was marred tragically by the Trojan condoms commercial shown after it.