Monday, June 6, 2011

E3 2011: Microsoft - Kinect Fun Labs

So, Microsoft had their big E3 briefing today (which i decided to watch on Spike).  One of the things that came out today was Kinect Fun Labs. 

Warining: launching Kinect Fun Labs without the Kinect sensor on is a bad idea.  It kept giving me error messages that i couldn't bypass, even the guide button was not working to get out.

Kinect Fun Labs is basically a series of bite sized proof of concept "apps".  They range from things like object scanning to person scanning.  Really there are about 4 or so up currently (all free, all with 50 gamerscore each).  This currently consists of Googly Eyes, Kinect Me, Build a Buddy and BobbleHead.  Sparkler was shown at E3, but not up yet.  Maybe i will try and post a few pictures if Kinectshare.com is still working.  No, you cannot use the Kinect Me version as your avatar. 

So, i've tried out all the available "games"... Basically this is a 770+ MB file (with other files to be downloaded at 200+ MB).  The interface is kind of slow (can be launched from the Community section or Kinect Dashboard). 

This mostly comes from the people at Good Science (Kinect Adventures, i wish they would have announced a sequel instead).

Edit: Here is a picture from one of them (too bad Blogger doesn't seem to be an easy way to embed WMV files - if there is it is really, really slow)

BobbleHead (not a very good scan result, they are both supposed to be me).  It is kind of annoying in this and Kinect Me to line up for "scans" of your face.  The glasses are a generic addition.  i hope that isn't supposed to be the Space Needle in the background (if it is that is kind of pathetic). 


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