Idea for xbox 360 Kinect

[Chorionicstu]

Kinect is being marketed as a device which will replace the need for controllers. What if instead it worked with controller-based games and was instead used not to create a new gaming experience, but to enhance the old one.

Kinect has the amazing ability to capture motion as it does not rely on the person to hold a controller of any kind. Imagine this motion capture ability used on existing games. Take the assassinations in Halo Reach for example; using the motion capture ability of the Kinect you could create your own unique assassination animations. I'm sure there are many other great ways to implement this technology with other games but I just thought of this now.

 

[Romidude]

My suggestion to Kinect is stop.

 

[zfactor]

I'm waiting until motion capture technology becomes the holodeck. Kinect by itself seems more of a party game than an actual tool for controling a game (try playing Halo Reach with it, controlers with buttons are faster than waving your arms around). I could see a pairing of the two as effective, maybe melee attacks/assassinations are done with waving and everything else is with a controler (like you said). That could work.

But I'm not buying into controler-free stuff until it becomes the holodeck. THAT would be a kickass game system.

 

[Chorionicstu]

I actually meant pre-recording assassination animations before playing the game and then playing the actual game with a controller.

 

[Chorionicstu]

Sorry double post.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

MY idea for a Kinect? Using it as a paperweight.