Poll: Poll Is your room Kinect compatible

[RevRaptor]

Am I really one of the only ones who doesnt live in a miniature room? I mean seriously even though I play all my games in the living room I have more then enough space in the bedroom to set up a tv and kinect. I mean sure I know I am renting a fairly big house but how do people live in such small rooms.

Ok there are lots of threads detailing the stupid that is the xbox one but one thing got me thinking. That it has to have a Kinect thing.

Thing is I have a Kinect (it came with my console) but I've never even plugged it in. I do have a lounge but my xbox ain't in it. It's in my room sharing the Tv with my computer with uses the Telly as a second monitor all sitting on a desk that faces onto my bed.

There is no bloody way the Kinect works with that set up and if the kinect for the Xbone is even vaguely similar it would mean that the xbone is utterly incompatible with my bloody room.

So even if I did want one (which I really don't) there is a good chance it won't be able to work because of my room set up.

So how many of my fellow escapists out there can actually set up a Kinect an who can't?

So wait you are saying that the Kinect that you have never plugged in or tried doesnt work for you. How are you so certain that this is so if you have never tried it? Also they have said that the new Kinect is vastly superior and will work in more cluttered rooms such as a bedroom.

Well I know because I read the instruction manual and looked at reviews. Also for some stupid reason the Kinect doesn?t come with a TV stand so I literally can't set it up with out spending an extra $30 bucks to get one or make a stand myself. I'm not gona waste money or time buying/making a stand for a device that everyone is telling me won't work in my room.

 

[x0ny]

Yes, and I live in a tiny 2 bedroom house. My living room easily accommodates being long and narrow with only a couch, dining table, book shelf and desk in there.

 

[SirDeadly]

All of the rooms in my house are massive compared to today's standards, I guess that's what you get with an older house. The spare room with my 360, spare computer, massive corner desk, my TV and sofa bed still has a good 2x2.5m room to use a kinect. Even my bedroom would allow for a kinect to be used, if I move my bed away from the middle of the room.

 

[Rofl Harris]

If you're a kid, you probably have the thing in your bedroom, with all your other worldly possessions and therefore probably don't have enough room for it to work properly.

If you live in your own house, then your console probably lives in your lounge on the biggest TV in the house. If you're the kind of person who games AND has lives in their own house, you're probably under 35, and in the UK that means your house is the size of a shoebox.

When I lived with my parents I'd have never had enough room for Kinect to even see me. Now I live alone, my living room is still too small for it to work properly. I know you Americans have bigger houses than us, but I'd be surprised if most of you can give this bloody thing enough room to function as it's designed.

 

[BoxCutter]

My desk takes up a large portion of my room.

I also play my consoles while sitting at said desk, so Kinect is pretty much fucking useless to me.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Wonder if anyone "actually" watched the tech demo of the new kinect. Dude literally stands 2 feet from the screen and is able to still use some functions of the kinect. But Hey the rampant caustic hate is so much more fun right? Screw those rich people with their ability to find enough room for a very wide angle lense to work, screw them right up their wide angled lense.!

Yup, was going to say something similar.

People that are stamping their foot saying, "blargh, they still are going with the shitty Kinect, rabble rabble!", they obviously didn't pay attention to any news or hands on reviews that came out of the reveal day.

I stumbled upon a video on youtube of Adam Sessler testing it out, because he of course was at the event. He confirmed that you can pretty much stand right at the screen and the new Kinect will work properly.

Heck the thing can pick up your heart rate and even the individual muscle movements in your body.

 

[Arcade Hero X]

These things are clearly designed with an american household in mind, Where the sitting room is the size of a small house.

You are sadly misinformed as to the average size of an American Living Room. Mine is 3.5-4 strides at its longest point.

You have completely misquoted me, I said its geared towards an American household which are generally much bigger then their European and Asian counter parts.

Hence I said "designed with an american household in mind".

Now I know everyone over there doesn't lives in mansions but you gotta admit man your houses are bigger then ours.

 

[ChocoROID]

My £12mil stately homes grand hall is unfortunately too small for the Kinect 2.
I had to hire a fourteenth manservant to interface with the damn thing from a large warehouse in the Amazonian desert!
That wretched Microsoft has no consideration for people of my wealth! I'd have to be a multi-billionaire Cuban narcotics dealer with more land than the king to use it! That is if Cuba was still even a country!
Microsoft need to rework the device to function in smaller rooms than 400 cubic feet or the world will become the desolate place it is today.


Greetings from the future by the way.

 

[Bestival]

My living room could probably handle it, but not with the current setup... I'd have to rearrange every piece of furniture in here, and probably place it in such a way that only Lara Croft or Indiana Jones could still get to my kitchen.

I don't get the kinect thing in general, who the hell wants to be that active while gaming... I play this shit to relax, ffs.
Full body type games won't be logical till we have perfect VR.

 

[Thanatos5150]

These things are clearly designed with an american household in mind, Where the sitting room is the size of a small house.

You are sadly misinformed as to the average size of an American Living Room. Mine is 3.5-4 strides at its longest point.

You have completely misquoted me, I said its geared towards an American household which are generally much bigger then their European and Asian counter parts.

Hence I said "designed with an american household in mind".

Now I know everyone over there doesn't lives in mansions but you gotta admit man your houses are bigger then ours.

I don't have to admit a thing, especially as I have no concrete experiance and/or data.
I've been in a few Japanese houses, and one Japanese apartment, these are the only non-American dwellings I have set foot inside. Both of those houses were pretty spacious, the apartment was tiny.

 

[Miyenne]

I have one, but I don't leave anything out or plugged in when I'm not using it, and I bought it hoping they'd come out with games that I could be active playing, but of course nothing cool did come out. I've barely ever used it. I did buy that Disneyland Adventure game to play (yes, I am a 30 year old woman, leave me alone) but the "walking" mechanic of holding your arm up weirdly just didn't work for me.

My "living room" is about 6 feet by 6 feet of usable space when you consider the furniture. My house is laid out weird. It's all open concept and quite large enough for us two, it's very long, but the bar from the kitchen cuts the room in half. There's maybe 4.5 feet between the tv stand and the recliner which the tv primarily faces, and there's no space on the sides. My living room's like a triangle, so to use the connect I'll have to remove the recliner and the loveseat.

 

[Weaver]

I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty large and open concept living space so, yes mine is.
However, I don't own a kinect.

 

[Ashadowpie]

my living room is too small, but it can comfortably fit a nice L couch. it also doesnt help that my tv is in the corner on an angle so, playing even the Wii with 2 people is kinda a *****. oh well. for Kinect you need a massive empty living room and thats not realistic at all. look at all the commercials for it, most of the living rooms are almost as big as my entire first floor. i didnt know PS3 was targeted for millionaires. oh well

 

[Arina Love]

My entertainment room is only 3.5m and i got couch desk and shelves, so i basically have 1m to wiggle around. So no.

 

[Arcade Hero X]

"designed with an american household in mind".

I don't have to admit a thing, especially as I have no concrete experiance and/or data.
I've been in a few Japanese houses, and one Japanese apartment, these are the only non-American dwellings I have set foot inside. Both of those houses were pretty spacious, the apartment was tiny.

Where are you going with japan? I was comparing an average american house to an average Irish house also i don't care what anyone thinks the kinect was designed purely for the american audience with voice recognition a full year before we got it in Ireland and the UK but yet we both speak the same language!!!


As stated in the comments above European country's have on average smaller houses than the rest of the world, So by that logic Americans have bigger houses.

Also here is some data for you. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130315192910AAV8UsV

 

[NinthPlanet86]

Since the current Kinect sensor needs to be around 6ft(1.8m) away from the player for a single player and 8ft(2.5m) for two players, I don't have the space to use the sensor. Unless the Xbox One's Kinect Sensor allows one to be much closer - i.e 3ft(80cm) away - then I won't be able to use it either.

I hope Microsoft allow the Xbox One to be controlled entirely independently of the Kinect sensor (preferably, though their launch suggests otherwise, without it needing to be connected at all).

My source for the above information is the Kinect sensor's manual, which can be found at: http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-360/manuals-specs/manual-specs under the Kinect heading.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Nope, though it's irrelevant. I'm not setting up a Kinect in my room. If that means I have to skip the Xbox one, so be it.

 

[omega 616]

My living room could if I took a lot of stuff out, which I could easily do (I have two sofa's but never have anybody round). Thing is, I play games to relax ... not to dance around, not to get frustrated with inaccurate controls and not to play daft daft games, such as anything on star wars kinect.

 

[soren7550]

The only way it'd work for me was if I were to rearrange most of the room and get rid of the bed. And that ain't happening.