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Shimmyhill

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1 hour ago, Wallace said:

Apparently you will be able to give voice commands through the headset with no need for Kinect. I wonder how many people will make use of them now. 

 

That sounds pretty cool assuming it lets you take screenshots/video that way as really the only reason I keep being tempted to get a kinect.

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Mr. Gerbik

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1 hour ago, Wallace said:

Apparently you will be able to give voice commands through the headset with no need for Kinect. I wonder how many people will make use of them now. 

I was wondering if they would ever do something like this. Or whether it was even possible. It always seemed to me that the Kinect was a needlessly complicated / overexpensive way of implementing voice commands - arguably the only useful and cool feature of the damn thing. It would be great if they can keep that aspect while ditching the hardware add-on.

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Mr. Gerbik

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37 minutes ago, Dudley said:

They always claimed it needed the Kinect's processing power to do voice and that's why it was needed.

 

I never believed it.

And if that were true, surely the Scorpio will have plenty of processing power to spare for voice commands. 

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TehStu

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9 hours ago, Dudley said:

They always claimed it needed the Kinect's processing power to do voice and that's why it was needed.

 

I never believed it.

 

I dunno, that processing needs to be done somewhere. There are some conflicting requirements between: want my console offline, don't want voice slowing it down, don't want expensive peripherals, etc. That said, it's clearly bobbins on Kinect (for me, anyway), so I'd rather that guff to up to Bing to process. Cortana has done a better job of recognizing what I say on Win 10.

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Graham S

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Sorry to be dim, but I dusted off the Xbox One to play a bit of Halo 1 (quite a good game, need to go back to the old graphics though, don't know who they let scrawl over them) and I'm not sure that I've got suspend and resume working properly. I have instant on selected in the power settings. I am selecting "Turn off console" by holding down the home button on the controller, but it seems to be loading the game from scratch. What am I doing wrong?

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NoVisAnima

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22 hours ago, Dudley said:

They always claimed it needed the Kinect's processing power to do voice and that's why it was needed.

 

I never believed it.

Well considering that now the voice recognition is much, much slower and takes a lot longer to actually act on what you've said I believe that the Kinect was doing something that it is now no longer doing because in its current state the voice stuff is unusable.

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T Pot

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Xbox Record that has always been iffy for me, only works about 50% of the time. The other one is when I'm talking to my mates and say the word xbox as part of a sentence the console starts listening for a command.

 

Apart from that I've never really had an issue.

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evilashchris

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It's part of what makes the Xbox essential to me.

 

When you have a wife that hides/leaves in the fridge/buries all your remote controls 'Xbox on, go to BBC2, volume up' saves me half an hour of pain.

 

Also using the 'Go to' Command for games is excellent if you have a large stack of digital shame.

 

Oh aye, and Xbox fitness is amazing and has saved me a fortune in gym fees.

 

Any 'new' Xbox better let me bring my Kinect with me or I'm gonna riot.

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rafaqat

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14 minutes ago, Dudley said:

I think Microsoft will now be proceeding as if Kinect never existed I'm afraid.

 

Well they're keeping the voice controls so I don't think it's going to disappear.  It certainly won't be championed like it was at console launch.   

I reckon the xbox Slim  and Xbox Two will have the ports still to connect a Kinect if you decide to buy it separately. 

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TehStu

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Yeah, voice stuff isn't going away. That they're converting it to Cortana makes that pretty evident.

 

Perhaps I need to run my tuner again, because it's not very good at all at picking up my voice, loud kids notwithstanding.

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Yoshimax

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Just picked up an Elite controller from Game - they're throwing in a copy of Halo5 just now with it FYI.

Just picked up an Elite controller from Game - they're throwing in a copy of Halo5 just now with it FYI.

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T Pot

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4 minutes ago, DirkCrisis said:

Geometry Wars is coming to Xbox One!

 

I don't get why they took it away. It was part of the beta for the new OS before christmas. I still have it on my machine but I have to play in offline mode.

 

Same with Red Dead Redemption, but that was due to an error leaking it.

4 minutes ago, DirkCrisis said:

Geometry Wars is coming to Xbox One!

 

I don't get why they took it away. It was part of the beta for the new OS before christmas. I still have it on my machine but I have to play in offline mode.

 

Same with Red Dead Redemption, but that was due to an error leaking it.

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Petrousgyre

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5 hours ago, rafaqat said:

 

Well they're keeping the voice controls so I don't think it's going to disappear.  It certainly won't be championed like it was at console launch.   

 

In what sense was it ever championed? Kinect 2 must be the worst supported gaming peripheral of all time, to my mind there's a dance game, a terrible sports game and that Fantasia thing that didn't work very well.

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