Kinect : The fever dream of Xbox

The Kinect ride started back in 2009 and lasted 5 years, forced all the way up to the next generation of consoles. A major reorganization of the Xbox team happened after the departure of Don Mattrick in 2013. Kinect is no longer advertised or bundled with the console. Today in 2016, Phil Spencer is still trying to recover the Xbox brand's image.
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[@crowbcat]

The title of this video will change to "the fever dream of Xbox" because we're currently in the real dark age of Xbox.

[@RamenMale]

oof

[@ayybe7894]

Harsh... but fair. The Kinect actually had SOME use-cases. Switching weapons in Skyrim with voice commands was a solid QoL improvement"

[@Dustooon]

xbox has had nothing noteworthy in 2024 lol

[@masterg454]

didn’t expect a comment after 8 years.

[@eliasroflchopper3006]

I was just about to ask. Explain why please, I totally don't care about Xbox normally

[@nitinanku]

“This wasn’t acted. She felt the need to reach down.” That’s because it was acted

[@JotaroPowered]

I see you watch Scott the Woz.

[@druidofthefang]

you are so dumb i want to poop my panties

[@StardustRyan]

Hey All

[@Ze_eT]

@Francisco A G noob

[@ToXic_WeaponZ]

@@Ze_eT noob

[@Ziabetus]

"It's not about reinventing the wheel... it's about no wheel at all" I guess we know why it never got anywhere.

[@benzlover55]

Ziabetus BA-DUM-TISH

[@snaggiz]

Ziabetus I wish I could like this comment about a thousand times over lmao

[@lixbox69]

benzlover55 maybe that's why it crashed and burned

[@jmoa5758]

hahaha savagw

[@Shivang4]

Ziabetus 1000th like

[@BBQDanTheMan]

If i saw my surgeon using a kinect to help with his procedures, i'm outta there...

[@kaaaallll]

The kinect is so precise that it freaks out because its just too good.

[@kaaaallll]

+Drobitsky Oren Yea XD i guess they realized how stupid it was and were like "Screw it. It's gonna sell millions anyway."

[@kaaaallll]

+Drobitsky Oren I have great suggestions for a slogan: "We are Microsoft. We developed windows 8." or "Did you like the kinect? Yeah, we neither." or "Xbox one. Because all of your friends have it."

[@kaaaallll]

+Drobitsky Oren I agree.

[@KrisKringlez]

+Dan the Man | Funny Videos! Your dentist probably uses an Atari Jaguar

[@Daniel-jz9td]

I love how they dropped the more serious stuff like playing instruments, helping in surgeries, education/learning and physical rehabilitation in the trailers but they didn't elaborate further.

[@queuedjar4578]

>claim your shitty piece of plastic with a 480p camera attached can revolutionize brain surgery >refuse to elaborate further >drop kinect support entirely from the xbox one and leave

[@jorcornel558]

BOMB DEFUSAL 💀

[@BigWheel.]

Because that stuffs boring to talk about, but it was used. My grandma fell and the rehab team used a kinect to track how her progress was coming along at the home. I saw them in schools as a competitor to smart boards.

[@bend.7590]

They actually still use kinects today for real world applications. Nobody wanted to see that stuff in a gaming event, but yeah it was a legit thing

[@FakeTronaldRump]

@@bend.7590no shot

[@evanellis9178]

“The patients condition is critical, what should we do now doctor?” *Pulls out Kinect*

[@WastedPotential17]

Stand back, I've logged 250 hours in Trauma Center for the Nintendo DS

[@arcangel707]

It’s illegal to be this funny lol

[@MrNrj6490]

"we need to defuse this bomb, what do we have?" *Pulls out Kinect*

[@samblamjam]

The future is a few years ago my friend

[@naizamabao4681]

Patient:go to HE-BEE BEE BEEP BEEEEEP

[@adamparry2335]

If the Kinect had actually scanned that skateboard, that kid’s fingers would’ve shown up on the selection screen.

[@marshmallowdub]

Damn you right

[@boostkiller]

No because the ai know this is a skate

[@ian-hm6cx]

Boost Killer 1. no it doesn’t lmao and 2. the ai doesn’t know the design under his fingers, let alone that his fingers aren’t even part of the design

[@boostkiller]

@@ian-hm6cx f off and shut up mr Stein

[@AwesomeNation21]

Kinect knows photoshop. This is rocket science stuff

[@pikachu896]

Can we please never get children on stage in E3 anymore? It's one of the most cringeworthy stuff I've ever seen. 2023 edit: RIP E3. Such a shame, always looked forward to it each year :(

[@pablodelgado7919]

pikachu896 Couldn't agree more. It was terrible and i know they're kids but still

[@AbbasKhan9364]

Wholeheartedly agree. That was painful to observe.

[@dxBIGBOSSxb]

pikachu896 "Watch out , a waterfall!"

[@pablodelgado7919]

Big Boss Oh no captain hook

[@FavoretFox]

"Whoa"

[@codywork-us7wu]

The amount of people who joined COD lobbies with crying babies, barking dogs, beeping smoke detectors, and rap music blasting all at once is my soul memory of the Kinect

[@samhirst2830]

You can't forget the infinite echo when two kinect players would join a lobby.

[@DG-kr8pt]

All the same kind of person too.

[@NohabloEng]

Ahhh the good old days

[@dardanm3544]

That’s what happen now with ps controllers that come with a mic

[@codywork-us7wu]

@@dardanm3544 Oh my who thought that was a good idea?

[@foldedx2]

Imagine this, there's a bomb in your car and the guys that are supposed to defuse it pull out a kinect.

[@CaptainBloodsail]

I take my chances on my own

[@eajninja]

thats GG for sure

[@TylrTheDstryr]

"I don't give a fuck if you need to rank up in MW2 the terrorists are going to rank up off the 20+ kill streak if you don't diffuse this shit!"

[@ezrac704]

Imagine the Kinect is the bomb.

[@MindTwistEsp]

Hahahahahaha

[@foldedx2]

"It's not about reinventing the wheel, it's about no wheel at all." And just like a car without wheels, it got nowhere.

[@pawzuph]

DAMNNNNN

[@ThatsJustEric]

😄😄😄 burned

[@mrinde7]

canned 9's legit sounds like Daenerys dialogue in Game of Thrones 😂 “im not gonna stop the wheel, im going to break the wheel”

[@foldedx2]

@@zahtmi >reddit never speak to me again

[@naizamabao4681]

Xbox:BEEE BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEP

[@bobdole461]

I can honestly say, I've NEVER wondered what the bottom of an avatars shoe looked like.

[@emperorgameling5064]

bobdole461 Speak for yourself

[@ThorStoneGaming]

Well BAM there it is.

[@neal2399]

Liberal Decay >every separate vertebrae of the avatar’s spine twists spirally to the left as its leg shatters itself

[@_yellow]

I have more often than not wondered what's inside the head of those developers.

[@neal2399]

David it’s a lot of white noise with, if you listen carefully enough, faint voices whispering in Latin

[@alexp3997]

I’m honestly surprised Microsoft didn’t get more backlash with the Kinect, they straight up committed false advertising.

[@GenesisRip]

Chances are, every ad has a disclaimer like that at 0:25 (lower-middle) where they say that "depictions are purely visionary" or some shit.

[@OHHHHUSBANT]

I mean, technically, it's not false advertising because it does work Just very very very poorly for gaming

[@GenesisRip]

@@OHHHHUSBANT Not necessarily, a pretty strong argument would be that the kinect was meant mainly for gaming (considering it was bundled with an xbox). Here in Australia, if it doesn't function for its main purpose, it can fall afoul of misleading/deceptive conduct laws. Really depends on how bad the Kinect was though, it doesn't seem like it was THAT terrible to contravene a trade law, just kinda bad.

[@Ourfairduke]

First time?

[@WeskerXM96E1]

The only thing Kinect is actually good at is finding shadow people that live in your house.

[@scroobboi2254]

Oh that could be me

[@shrekonion8307]

kinect: *player 2 has joined* me casually playing kinect sports: "hol up"

[@lighte605]

BTs 😀

[@sobrev1viente]

Bloody aliens

[@henrihawk8825]

So that's not normal?

[@thebuddha4208]

I like how when he’s pretending to play Jedi the character does everything before he does

[@ImRafaelPL]

It's cause high ping

[@sappireflames0009]

@@ImRafaelPL negative ping.

[@freebeats4323]

He practiced it for so long

[@thebritishguys6304]

I cringed so hard on the kinectimals acting

[@andreivieira]

@@ImRafaelPL - 400 ping, it´s before he does, not after.

[@pphillips4586]

I wonder if anyone actually fell for the actor mimicking a Star Wars video and pretending he’s doing it

[@wavestrider2160]

Me..

[@Patrick-iu7ri]

@@wavestrider2160 read my comment

[@ronaldraygun6304]

Me too...

[@KusunokiSG47]

Eh, even my non-gamer family can see through it lol My kid sister fell for it tho

[@emiliomarbanjr]

At the beginning i fell for it, until the character on the screen looked over his shoulder at the Ship in front of him, when the actual player hasn't even moved from the previous pose

[@KingKimwer]

can't imagine how stupid those people felt just waving their hands around for no reason, the way that cello player really immersed herself into the role is just comedy gold

[@ozanozenir2503]

well they got paid for that so they are completely fine with it i guess. However, there are some people who actually paid for the kinect and never even used it. I mean probably 95% of the people who had it never used so who is feeling stupid now?

[@turq1824]

I will never stop laughing at how they pretended you could perform surgery, defuse a bomb, and play a symphony with Kinect.

[@vlusky_husky]

Yea sure the thing is accurate enough to sense a movement not more than 1 inch. And not delay like 1 seconds

[@mastoid45]

And it can’t detect little jogging so it makes you literally use all of your energy making your knees touch your chest as fast you can so you can just run.

[@nickostrowski183]

it is super advanced and could very well do that, but you need a computer and custom software for it, i hacked mine to detect my movement in vr, and it works better than a vive tracker, it is super precise

[@mastoid45]

Nick Ostrowski big brain move right there.

[@vlusky_husky]

@@nickostrowski183 would you mind telling us how? Or maybe link a couple sources?

[@Serenity17]

This is what happens when people who don't play video games make decisions about what new videos games they should make.

[@beast63254]

I've missed you bro 😂

[@kaz-mh8li]

where are you dude , miss you a lot

[@PapiDark2.0]

We all miss you Serenity. Please come back!! 🥺

[@shalala8856]

KZbin is better now that you have stopped uploading

[@Longpipejang]

**LITERALLY EVERY GAME MADE THESE DAYS**

[@TheXenoxen]

"The kinect has the power to analyze movements better than the human eye....." wat

[@TroublingMink59]

It does, but for some reason all the games that use it only care about your forearm and like, your left chesticle. It's surprisingly powerful when hacked and used for weird stuff on PC.

[@young7931]

It has the potential. But ...

[@NobleNomad]

Its true evolutionary purpose was going to be what you see in Black Mirror episode 2, not legit entertainment. Corporate jackals and oligarch toadies are going to jackal and toadie, afterall.

[@bonesmcgee1250]

Don't you know that the human eye can only see 30 FPS?

[@8bitfrenzy376]

*10 cause that's all my peasant box gets on animal crossing

[@AwesomeDude799]

It pisses me off so badly the amount of overexaggeration, false advertising, and straight up lying the gaming industry is allowed to do.

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

The kinect wasn’t broken if you know how to use it properly.

[@dezient3816]

@@Sydney_Angelyt Yeah you're right. It wasn't broken.... IT WAS SHIT

[@ramboj7924]

*Microsoft is allowed to do

[@seco000]

it's moslty because our law makers are old and don't know much about modern technologies

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

@@ramboj7924 Ubisoft etc do it too

[@bonelessbananna5410]

Imagine you get shot in the chest and get rushed down to the hospital your about to die your life flashes before your eyes there's only seconds left and the doctors whip out the kinect

[@queenpurple8433]

Why the hell would I want to imagine that?

[@bonelessbananna5410]

@@queenpurple8433 it's a joke because they really think that doctors would use the kinect in surgery

[@nutmeg9005]

Boneless bananna and then you wake up and the doctors are in there playing COD zombies preferably BO2 zombies

[@portocava9863]

@@nutmeg9005 it's kind of funny actually... XD

[@contingen6y]

just turn off my fuckin life support bro

[@WowAmazingRight]

I imagine every actor after finishing up on stage, they went back stage and said "fucking tough crowd," and smoked a cigarette. Even the kids.

[@FRSTBYTESyearsago]

The kids just popped a stogie and said “man what a rough day”

[@presidentofchina1496]

At that day, children below 10 grew a beard already with hollow eyes from the hard work and developed crippling depression

[@InVinoVeratas]

_“Man this crowd is a hard sell, gotta shill harder”_

[@HackedUpForBarbeque]

Especially the kids.

[@randybobandy9828]

ESPECIALLY the kids.

[@anthonyromano6403]

I have fond memories of the kinect, one time i was playing some 2d fighting game(can’t remember the name) and my dog stepped in front of the screen, the kinect picked him up and he appeared in the game, his body dealt damage to the enemies which made my family and I burst out in laughter

[@G-howie]

Lmao

[@alanjamesh.zamorano1677]

That happy tail wagging that dogs do for even the minimum reason was throwing the best fighting combos, according to the Kinect.

[@Splarkszter]

kungfu something something

[@dtanobo]

The girl's gamerscore is about as legit as her acting.

[@resdyne9590]

Which one

[@川口篤紀]

Tiger thing tho

[@WolzenTwo]

dtanobo Got your comment as soon as that part came on.

[@thedarkforce9596]

Fart Tony and mic drop

[@skin_lizard]

@@EETDUK Every achievement is worth a gamerscore or something. It's just worthless points to say you're good at shit.

[@Yurumates]

I'll never stop laughing at how they pretended you could play a violin with Kinect.

[@dujuan9646]

Yurumates I'll never stop laughing at how they pretended the Kinect could actually recognize simple gestures.

[@SladeBallard]

Yurumates I'll never stop laughing at the Kinect.

[@coal2710]

SladeBallard I'll never stop.

[@mode3763]

i'll never

[@glbose344]

Ill

[@comet1718]

*has skateboard* *plays a game simulating skateboarding*

[@coolguy02536]

We'll always be left to wonder what the point of "scanning" it was too.

[@nyranna_]

Theroux Especially because his hand wasn’t in the way when the scan was complete

[@Kyle-hi5od]

Because he cant do a bs 180 irl

[@mustasheolll2020]

That was skate 3, and that never happened.

[@louisluisss]

anus he can’t do a kick flip tho

[@PERTEKofficial]

The most useful thing the Kinect did was allowing me to shout “XBOX OFF” into the mic to shut off all the echoey Kinect users’ Xboxes in a match

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

oh, wow you can control Elmo with the Kinect ok I'm bored what's next?.

[@fuzzy8593]

@@SaraMorgan-ym6uenachos and a couple beers?

[@DrPhilUpMyPants]

That is fucking hysterical

[@Lifelover992011]

This is so painful to watch, I hope all those actors get a paycheck large enough to cover the funeral expenses for the part of them that clearly died during the performance

[@MrFrog_]

;D

[@lagod63]

Oh my goodness. Did you have to go in that hard? Lmfaoo

[@Jequetepeq]

They probably didnt

[@uedarizaru]

BIG OOF

[@JSO0453]

😂

[@user-eu8kr5ub5m]

Bro imagine being kidnapped and hooked up to a bomb and the Navy Seals come in with a bomb removal unit, and they break out an Xbox 360 with a Kinect

[@vladtepes2667]

I think I would rather go deigo go to heaven tahn wait for them to figure out how to save me.

[@gostigoo6706]

I'd be relieved that my life was in good hands

[@puffdaddy69]

When in doubt, use a Kinect

[@louiehorwood660]

Reminds me of the it crowd with the bombs disposal robot.

[@notatrollll]

“This fucking lag, bro”. 🤨

[@g0g0duck20]

Imagine walking into a surgery and seeing a kinect bolted to the wall.

[@domini384]

The technology in Kinect can actually be useful for the medical field, as for gaming ....no

[@mandybarney]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Alikaykillerfour4]

@@domini384 until the kinect delay is the cause for an unfortunate patients death during intense surgery. “Damnit the kinect isn’t responding man, how do we find the scalpel we left in this guys chest cavity?”

[@themysteriousface7633]

"Hey doc how are you gonna remove the tumor in my head with a video game system?"

[@mycycleminorities]

Man im about to see my grandma

[@WouldYouKindlyGWAR]

This is probably one of the biggest lies in gaming history. They were up on that stage just bullshitting us completely.

[@blob5907]

you believed it. That's how smart you are

[@warpdarkmatter]

@@blob5907 Says the kirby pfp goofy one

[@dogacan38]

"The future is NOW!" Everytime someone says it, something disappointing happens.

[@CroatInAKilt]

unless they say "the future is now, old man!"

[@bamcki991]

THE FUTURE IS NOW THANKS TO SCIENCE

[@jadegabriel4380]

Kinda sounds like a cursed word for gaming marketing.

[@lagillas]

"VR is the future"... 2050 here... still playing call of duty quadrinfinitebattleroyale warfare...

[@Spearra]

@@jadegabriel4380 its almost like saying "you and what army?" that's basically asking for it

[@gclub7635]

Ah the late 2000's when EVERY console wanted to be the wii

[@henningmx2114]

Even Sony did it with PlayStation Move

[@gclub7635]

@@henningmx2114 Really?....honestly I that it was a Wiimote with a disco ball

[@thegatesofsleep]

HenMrtz X8 At least the Sony version performed better and wasn’t advertised under a 100% bullshit premise.

[@jamescarson886]

The late 2000s is just under a thousand years away from now

[@AyeBeeG]

TheGhostKidney7 no kid, nice try

[@masonawsomepants3861]

Wow! The technology is so advanced the characters move before the players do!

[@collinpylar1231]

💀

[@Hugo-df8iz]

Mason Awsomepants lmao

[@nlamha5316]

No its the sharingan eye of kinect

[@niclasneziru1854]

I played Kinect games and motion tracking was so painfully bad it was decades before Wii's sensor bar

[@TheVagabondGadite]

Mason Awsomepants 1:53

[@qqq386]

That guy Don Matrick single-handedly handed this generation to Sony

[@JamieLikesGames]

Literally, and they never recovered from it.

[@mgsxmike]

Don Matrick is the unsung hero of Sony

[@TheKazzerscout]

Xbox One and Series X generation. They never recovered from losing the generation where everyone built their digital libraries.

[@davidsavage519]

Imagine you were about to get an operation and the last thing you saw before going down under is that the surgeons were using Kinect

[@Mint-qw3xm]

David Savage No no let me Use my gun no Need för you

[@villagehero256]

*kinect loses calibration*

[@Slightlyevil]

RIP!

[@ChristopherWeaver1]

CANT BREATHE

[@brandonlee7382]

David Savage A dead man

[@Nasiruify]

“Sir he died trying to diffuse a bomb with a Kinect controlled robot”

[@shadowjinkus1070]

"Poor bastard got the red ring"

[@Loltroll8]

“20 dead after Kinect prototype failure.”

[@lara3540]

“Don’t worry we can still save him with the Kinect operating surgeon!”

[@nagiaoe2434]

Funny, predator drones are actually controlled with 360 controllers

[@juiceboxfresh7846]

@@nagiaoe2434 Typical, nobody thinks about the disabled. What if I had chronic arthritis? How am I supposed to drone strike a school if I'm physically unable to hold a controller? The military need to get with the times, it's frankly disgusting how they treat the lesser abled when it comes to using predator drones

[@aaaaaaaa12225]

This is honestly still so incredibly difficult to watch. The secondhand embarrassment kills me.

[@moncoeur6296]

Funfact that noone cares about: Germany actually has a word for secondhand embarrassment, it's called "fremdschämen"

[@thenoobtv0297]

universeClips Echt jetzt XD

[@colincraigo5793]

Adam second hand embarrassment = cringeworthy. lmfao i love it

[@JaesadaSrisuk]

Adam The actors aren't cringing, though. They were probably well-compensated, perhaps they were even given an Xbox-plus-Kinect. Unless, of course, they were paid SAG scale - in that case, a couple hundred bucks isn't worth the embarrassment.

[@Bryan-dz1yi]

Adam you like that don't you? (4:15)

[@rogueproductions9011]

Imagine going in to get brain surgery, and the surgeon boots up an Xbox

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

run just run!

[@LadyOfTheEdits]

Lol

[@sylvie7868]

this is actually one scenario where it might work, since it'd be more of a hands-free tool to control a computer that might contain important info, but then again you'd probably have an assistant do that for you.

[@nqrtzy8765]

I’ll never stop laughing about how, for the Star Wars game, they pretended a cutscene was actual gameplay.

[@Lefthandrightband]

literally the whole thing was fake lmfai

[@kira4739]

Yeah, essentially at 1:53 where the character on screen moves before the acter.

[@VITAS874]

fucking lie

[@PortingaleNightingale]

Cringe

[@thandozungu2428]

Bruh ...😂😂

[@portalmaster2]

“Kinect scan my skateboard” covers half of it with his hands and it still comes out perfect

[@portalmaster2]

@Matthew Singer this ain’t for skaters buddy lol

[@floatinggoose9197]

Not only could it not work in 3rd party apps like they advertised, it didn’t work in games it was designed to work with

[@LuanPrates]

You can see that theres some timong gap between his moves and the television, which means he is only playingback a video, not playing a video game.

[@TrueMartin]

@Matthew Singer most skateboarders I knew had an Xbox 360 though. They would play Tony hawk games too.

[@lemfandango]

@Matthew Singer it's not dumb to make fat greasy gamers think that actual athletes would want to use a kinect

[@alexmelara7406]

"It instantly mimics me on screen." *Avatar breaking each and every bone of its body.*

[@giuseppeianniello1998]

Maybe he’s a contortionist?

[@notsojharedtroll23]

@@giuseppeianniello1998 LMAOOOOO

[@azziouzecherrati9024]

1,58 zip xbox360 and zip code is a 8,51Mbps of a directory 5he directory that allows the user and I didn't

[@saverofthewo]

@@azziouzecherrati9024 eminem real silent after this

[@lmtx45]

WABAM!!!

[@jkadoodle]

Even if Kinect worked perfectly nobody would want to play like that for more than ten minutes

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

well duh I remember having it and besides it being a fun little novelty I got bored of it and went back to the controller even for watching movies on my xbox after about that much time maybe less.

[@diegomorales7419]

I don't think the issue was the concept itself, the problem was the games, if Kinect supported Third Party games with VR capabilities it would be awesome, it's the perfect technology for it.

[@thesilentcontempt]

Those E3 press conferences are even MORE cringeworthy now I didn't think it was possible

[@suus01]

+thesilentcontempt FIST BUMPP

[@ekmad]

+thesilentcontempt It honestly does make RIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAACER look pretty tame

[@MrSlashStudios]

that giant black women literally kills me with the cringe

[@TheLoveTrain]

+Thomas Green I didn't see that as cringey I thought it was kinda cute, kids just being kids

[@quitepipe]

+ekmad I miss modnation racers

[@DimeTree]

"What Microsoft is doing is not about reinventing the wheel... it's about no wheel at all" Forgot about that golden line

[@tim7495]

A Rt It is.

[@fateek2249]

I saw this comment exactly when he said it

[@kurtmostat8491]

What's that a reference to?

[@luckylove72]

makes me wonder these ppl run the business

[@saintbarnabasshackles2437]

Fucking westorosis

[@herpsenderpsen]

"look at the water" "we can go anywhere" *can literally only go down with the river stream*

[@DanielAyy]

Their perspective on reality are highly limited.

[@ramage7646]

Daniel Ayy aha I literally said “xbox, play” on my xbox and suddenly I found myself playing the pc X) Does the xbox really have that? I mean does the xbox one still have voice commands? :)

[@DanielAyy]

@@ramage7646 I believe you need the Xbox One Kinect to use voice commands.

[@yakub304]

VR explained really quickly

[@whatuser9802]

Wait hold up **Yeets Xbox into the river**

[@burnheal6063]

that clip with the kid pretending to be licked by the virtual animal still makes my skin crawl.

[@upsidedownhorror]

💀 None little girl would do this Even if she is too young and innocent

[@danielterris7680]

As I move, my avatar instantly mimics me 'Avatar has a spasm'

[@CelestialDraconis]

That was my favourite part

[@jppsasuke]

and BAMM!

[@ryandeluxe]

Merlin Tube i

[@markkoetsier6475]

That's gotta be at least ten broken bones in there.

[@folver91]

He should have faked a spasm to make it less embarrassing

[@FRSTBYTESyearsago]

This was sooo uncomfortable to watch, the poor actors, especially the kids

[@FangzwithaZ]

Imagine those kids watching that 20 years later

[@RowdyDandy]

@@FangzwithaZ I mean when they get asked what their cringiest life moment was they can just whip out KZbin and show it, dont know when that would be useful though😅

[@linusovery-smith4246]

I must say that username is pretty clever

[@billymays8274]

Yo youre old af

[@mr.potayto2131]

I cringed my teeth out

[@AFGuidesHD]

"the kinect is better than the human eye" lmao that is just so outrageous

[@robbydufault7382]

Facts

[@crazybugger2145]

Pleasure seeing you here

[@AccurateThings]

interesting you are here

[@ashrafhaider598]

Faxx

[@gingeetheginge6071]

Fax, no printer

[@LockeRobsta]

16:05 - The way Geoff put that pencil-neck in his place was brutal. I love it.

[@ClassicGameFire]

Cause thats how I wanna play a tactical 3rd person shooter, opening and closing my hand

[@mrquack6955]

haha

[@ClassicGameFire]

who during development for that looked at that gesture and was like "yes that looks natural"

[@хле6-ц8б]

srsly tho imagine yourself taking years to line up a shot

[@Typomixer15]

ClassicGameFire Just a kind reminder to all toy enthusiasts Mike Mozart is back. Cue star wars xbox dancing game music.

[@marcusgabriel8365]

Imagine playing R6S with the Kinect, leaning and proning will give you unbearable cramps for hours

[@nowheredan27]

02:35 oh man I can hardly wait to play Single Mom Simulator 2020

[@UriPhoneCracker]

Daniel Rocha lmao

[@vikramjeetkapoor8379]

Daniel Rocha wtf LOL

[@nailmontana1993]

Wtf lol

[@nailmontana1993]

Legit though like what was that? Why would they think we want that?

[@zamnoyrazvadva3527]

"This wasn't acted"

[@thomasbrke2390]

When did anyone complain about a controller?

[@mkultrabaked6190]

thomasbrke when Microsoft released the original Xbox controller.

[@casedistorted]

Jeremy Mckay ah The Duke.. memories. Xbox says something and that makes it true, even though nobody complains about a controller because they work. There will always be people who complain about everything though and you can't please them.

[@timbojoneso]

Legit the only people i can think of who would complain is people without hands LOL

[@mwilliams7511]

thomasbrke Microsoft's investors did when Nintendo sold 100 million Wiis

[@DaFro3713]

When Microsoft brought in a bunch of idiots and did a focus group on how to turn the Xbox into the Wii

[@xXOPxLunaXx]

I like how you can actually see the mess ups, when they regularly happen. You can't hide the faults with something interactive like that.

[@bobstevenson3130]

“These experiences can’t happen on any other console” *Shows wii sports bowling*

[@MatheusHenrique-sv6mz]

What about Arnold?

[@Deadsea_1993]

Kinect and Move were obvious ripoffs of Wii. They failed cause Nintendo actually made their product part of the fun of the game

[@seinfan9]

@@Deadsea_1993 The Wii sold many units because of its motion control gimmick. It didn't work well. When the Wii U hit, it failed miserably because all the soccer moms and grandmas that bought the Wii didn't know the Wii U was the next console.

[@Deadsea_1993]

@@seinfan9 . Wii sold well cause many bought it for health reasons. Plus it was a family console. Wii U did badly cause the awful name and lack of support. Many others and I thought that it was an add on to Wii

[@EnZo1rst]

I like your pfp

[@ElToland]

"The controller is a barrier" I can play any game with a controller, with Kinect you can't.

[@daviams22]

Tru

[@LittleSkyful]

What is with disabled people, who can't stay up. The controller is the best option for them.

[@Roxp2]

And what about people without hand

[@iowa6646]

@@Roxp2 they can't play kinect either

[@kennyisready6463]

Just dance

[@danstrzy6111]

Those adults pretending to play on stage is literally the definition of selling your soul

[@ps3gamer374]

😂😂🤣🤣

[@ashbethXII]

god damn rigth

[@Alixdkari]

welllll... imagine getting a great job in video game industry and then some cocksucker CEO tells you "Okay Josh tomorrow you dance on stage in front of millions of people or you're fired" you don't really have a choice.

[@danstrzy6111]

@@Alixdkari lmao

[@CommentFrom]

I genuinely wonder how long they practiced it before hopping on stage

[@idkwhatoname172]

Imagine, being on the your hospital bed and before they put you on anesthesia you see an xbox kinect.

[@GODISGOODBRO]

Imagine about to pass out and you hear the Xbox achievement sound lol

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Imagine they boot Star Wars Kinect dancing mode in the middle of the surgery

[@lucknowseven]

I would assume I had already died and was currently in Hell

[@bmac_xxx207]

you’d never wake up

[@mimingcat9219]

Let's be real. Even if it worked perfectly, there's no way I'm getting home from work and play a game using my entire body or holding and waving my arms awkwardly to play.

[@renjithjoseph7135]

Anyone with half a brain could tell the sensor tech wasn't ready yet. They could have made it an eye-toy type thing marketed at little kids and families and spent only 1/4 of the money they did.

[@courier6960]

@@renjithjoseph7135 I mean, even thinking about it just for a second it seems like utter horseshit, one camera in a fixed position? Your not going to be able to direct much with that at all...

[@TheOLsnaps]

@@renjithjoseph7135 umm you know how many the kinetic sold lol.

[@allansouza9834]

@@TheOLsnaps Because of the hype, i had a friend when i was young that bought a Xbox 360 with the Kinect, he played with the Kinect for like 2 days and that was it.

[@herbbirb3766]

if it worked perfectly you wouldn't be waving your arms awkwardly

[@Linkinator01]

"What? My gamerscore is 100% legit." That's some porn acting if I've ever heard it

[@nwno4176]

How could you fake your gamerscore?🤔🤣

[@tcmine]

@@nwno4176 modding to get achievements

[@dylanmartin9190]

''..mkay :j''

[@chibi_jojo9000]

Time?

[@tcmine]

KutThroatSaturnZ 7:47

[@thegibblypuff6218]

Imagine going under anesthesia and the last thing you hear is your doctor saying, “shit red ring” while they’re using a kinect.

[@devonterobinson7925]

Big oof

[@DownloadsPassion]

only a select few of us will even develop a glimmer of understanding for this.

[@thegibblypuff6218]

Downloads what’s the point here

[@DownloadsPassion]

@@thegibblypuff6218 yeah, sucks having to dumb down your comment to the point of mirroring others format and everything just to get likes. Better off posting intelligent jokes like this than doing that, youre doing a good job.

[@thegibblypuff6218]

Downloads lmfaooooooooooo

[@numbah_6]

I remember I was playing Borderlands 2 with a friend online and he had a few other friends over. Kept trying to get Vermivorous to summon (very low chance of happening). Finally did it and were fighting, boss was nearly dead. One of our other friends starts saying “Xbox off” over and over, friend disconnects. He managed to get the kinect to turn off the Xbox right before we killed the boss that took us nearly an hour to spawn

[@blakeedward5520]

Wow, that's awful. Also, funny to see in a poor design.

[@KaiUchiha15]

Has anyone ever used a fucking Kinect to play the violin?

[@Kencho27]

KaiUchiha15 how is that even supposed to work

[@420potsofale8]

It won't work. I've played the violin for quite some time and I can tell you air violin is just for fun and absolutely worthless if you're trying to make progress. Even a desk is better than air if you're practicing vibrato.

[@hytyde4304]

KaiUchiha15 I think the better question is: has anyone used a kinect to perform surgery?

[@toasterusedfly]

KaiUchiha15 500th like

[@void6661]

Aye lmao We hope not

[@sbcookies6240]

"when I start making movements, it instantly mimics me on screen" *character spazzes out and breaks every bone possible*

[@brandongardner4421]

Yea that def wasnt a good look hahahaha

[@nh-rm5jt]

Plottwist that actually happened on stage

[@Tony6Shot]

To its credit, that was the least fake thing during the entire reveal and probably the least cringy as a result.

[@ThatsJustEric]

😄

[@pierreo33]

@@nh-rm5jt ahahaa u said plot twist meme fellow redditor xDD

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

this was... Hard to watch

[@SAHLISS]

it really is

[@chrisgray5785]

What? Not a fan of the all mighty corporate hype machine?!?

[@othgalaldridge6019]

I suppose they just took it too far.

[@tFighterPilot]

The cringe is real. I especially hate when they're using children.

[@jrag1000]

haha. funny thing is i was so pissed when microsoft was forcing kinect. It was like gagging you with a tongue depressor.

[@thraftofcaanan281]

Such a throwback lol, I remember being a little kid thinking this was gonna be the way things would be now but I'm so glad I couldn't afford it, I just watched on the side how bad it went

[@blob5907]

you liked it and you still want one

[@Box0r0x0rz]

Just got my PHD in surgery after 15 grueling years of studying and internship, and now I'm going to use a piece of gaming hardware that doesn't even work properly to make a life and death decisions regarding my first patient. Future is bright, with Kinect™.

[@chasecrawford4173]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking that.

[@SuperFranco20]

I tought about that too.

[@bearpuns5910]

Dat username tho. :P

[@whatshappeninganymore2473]

+Hairy MouseTurd BOOBIE MASTER

[@dugesn0591]

LOL

[@strat4104]

Oh god imagine how many lives would be lost if they used the Kinect for bomb defusing robots

[@haseebkanorkant7024]

Imagine soldiers using Kinect in Iraq using this shit to defuse bombs and Iraqis be like "WTF!!!"

[@doctorrem6498]

Bad aim Sam * defusing bomb * * kinect spaz out * * everybody dies *

[@VinnieGer]

Then you'll really see what's on the bottom of their shoe.

[@MrHack4never]

Even the Atari 2600 controller would be a better choice than a kinect but if i had to choose a controller for bomb disarming, i would probably choose the steel battalion controller

[@riukasoulripper8252]

MrHack4never That shit's awesome

[@Tdidthat]

what? my gamerscore is 100% legit.

[@Saltyjazzman]

Antonio Harris Ok.

[@randyvargas8389]

Lmao that was so cringy

[@TheMightyP00tis]

yeah right

[@skullkid1028]

That conversation surely wasn't legit

[@rhytm]

This comment is 100% legit

[@kgodmode177]

The idea that this glorified motion sensor would be used in a surgical setting is bafflingly absurd

[@georged366]

“eat my dust y’all” *Is in last place*

[@downfromthereeefters]

She meant when they come up and overlap her

[@c17bykenshi67]

I thought you meant that XboX was gonna get above PlayStation, Nintendo etc. while being hated more than ever cause of the Kinect xD But then I just saw the scene and realized that my first thought fits pretty well too xD

[@TheGamebuzzHD]

@@downfromthereeefters *when you're so far behind, your competitors see you ahead* EaT mY dUsT y'AlL!!

[@NorthCdogg22]

I can’t even imagine just sitting in the hospital about to go under surgery. And the surgeon just whips out a Kinect ands like, “alright let’s get started”

[@vyros5]

my fight or flight would kick in faster than it ever has

[@zakkapradana7180]

"Just kill me rn doc"

[@InVinoVeratas]

You’d die before that thing even turned on. The doctor would still be setting it up and attempting to get it to sync and work while the patient would be a skeleton.

[@pnoyd3132]

Red ring-o- death

[@Darklove4343]

@@pnoyd3132 *we need another kinect stat! This man is dying*

[@oceanman_8370]

Here's a rule of thumb. If companies advertise something by using phrases like "The future is now" and "We'll change x forever" just give up all hope

[@CS-by4vg]

"This is rocket science level stuff"

[@CS-by4vg]

I know, but thats what one of the representatives said in the vid

[@leiferikson850]

Dont forget "Deciptions are visionary" 0:25 a.k.a. bullshit we hope makes you fall for the hype.

[@hobo_warrior7777]

"Marines, cause the future is now join today"

[@vladtepes2667]

@@malditapeppas509 The virtual boy will return one day...Virtual boy two mayebbhe shoukd work on the name.

[@tristankearns1045]

Remember when the Ghost Adventures crew used a Kinect to "prove" ghosts were "real"?

[@DarndaleBeats]

u a real one for that xD

[@prohunter717]

"Just be yourself and do what feels natural." Like you know, using an actual controller.

[@reginaldetienne7829]

Professionally Hunted hahahaha 😂

[@TallSilhouette]

The more time passes, the more absurd this seems. I can't believe so much BS was pumped into one device. Were they ever sued for false advertising if not outright fraud?

[@tarolovesu3787]

They sure did lose a lot of money tho.

[@josephine190]

if they showed a cut scene and pretended that was gameplay they should have gotten sued but there is a lot of loopholes in the law a big company like microsoft won't get sued.

[@downfromthereeefters]

When this shit was announced I was 14. I was like, wow, this looks shit. I do not want this. Somehow a 14 year old knew better than an entire massive corporation of idiots at Microsoft. Not saying I was super smart as a kid but damn, this shit was stupid, cringey, and clearly wasn’t going to work as advertised. Fucking fail, Xbox. Fail.

[@WinterReflections]

There have been many instances of bullshit marketing and deception in the world of major game companies from the start. They get to do pretty much whatever

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

Happens constantly (deception and promotion of false narratives) The last 7 weeks are proof of that... Yet people still don't care about researching facts for themselves...

[@nickz4993]

“My gamer score is 100 percent legit.” How do you do, fellow kids?

[@___aaron.m7930]

kachow! What

[@mutalix]

@@___aaron.m7930 How do you do fellow KZbinr?

[@___aaron.m7930]

mutalix good and you?

[@makasuevu]

shut up reddit cringetard

[@eduuugamer155]

@@makasuevu but the "fellow kids" isn't exactly a Reddit meme, you're the wrong one here.

[@SilentAbyss1996]

...We might need a sequel for this.

[@CptFordo-bv8dc]

“The controller is a barrier”. Said no one ever.

[@Immadeus]

I guess it is for people who don't play videogames.

[@ebake200]

Hmmm I wonder if I saw this on the internet But if I didn't see it on the internet then we're am I

[@setaentertainment4311]

Funny coming from ex-EA employee.

[@CyLikeSigh]

Lol right?! Of all the consoles I owned, the controller was never a complaint.

[@deaththekid922]

for shooters it is , but thats why we have mice

[@wardious2562]

Imagine being of one of those poor children and having that be your legacy.

[@everlels7608]

Oh no captain cook...

[@WinterReflections]

Considering the ridiculousness of what they were tasked with doing, and the fact that they had to try to make it appear as if they were actually playing a game with enthusiasm, in front of that many people at one of the largest events in entertainment they did pretty well. I highly doubt their involvement in this would do anything but help any acting career they pursued in the future. It's not those kid actors' legacy, it's Microsoft's failure.

[@juhman]

Zesty God Rhys hey they probably got a shit ton of money for acting like that

[@forsaille4655]

Remember boys. The biggest fools in the story are always the targeted costumers.

[@sirgen2103]

Watching their own videos years later

[@InternationalSpaceForce]

*goes into surgery* "Xbox open up patient cardiovascular layout" Me: oh dear

[@dr.snowman4883]

Guess I'll die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@spidernerd235]

Lol

[@mrmemelord2227]

Dr. Snowman lol 😂

[@andrijastefanovic726]

*KINECT RIPS PATIENT'S HEART OUT*

[@EthanCreativeMIND]

*stabs the patient with a drill

[@santiagomeza7272]

Ironically, the only reason my parents would let me have a video game console when I was 9, was because the Kinect would allow me to be active while playing.

[@jcelli98]

imagine you are about to have brain surgery an the surgeon busts out an xbox kinect

[@ajwtube]

That's almost as crazy as the amount of times I've seen this same comment dating back years. Hope you get your likes

[@follilolli5648]

@@ajwtube Okay but like who really cares? Most people will see this comment laugh and move on, it's not that deep

[@calmante4420]

Id just get up and leave, open head and all

[@no_misaki]

@@follilolli5648 unoriginal people suck, it doesn't have to be deep.

[@DiazTheKnight]

"Xbox, Record That"

[@Monstervolging]

"DOCTOR, THE PATIENT IS DYING!!!" "One second, need to reconnect with Xbox live"

[@goddesskate5958]

_/\__/\__/\__________________ We lost him doctor

[@bluesyrupgc4224]

Family: How did you lost him? Doctor: We forgot to connect the WiFi

[@higaiwokeru]

The doctor scene in the trailer was so outrageous like imagine dying of bloodloss and your fucking doctor can’t do shit because he’s too busy fixing the kinect Edit: NEVER-FUCKING-MIND THERES A BOMB DEFUSING SCENE

[@okgamerjack2274]

We need strong WiFi for this surgery

[@zeyadalharbi5147]

Doctor: Shit I forgot the password

[@elnathe3707]

I shouldn’t hate on these people, there’s nothing wrong with them Just their acting

[@that1snowyguy251]

They probably just wanted to get paid let's be real

[@torres3800]

I remember getting it during Black Friday 2010. I will admit, I was blown away during the project Natal stage. Played it throughout 2011, and now in 2023, it sits in it's original box in the garage. LoL

[@veritty6828]

“My gamer score is 100% legit” “Yeah right” “Ok” *Years worth of cringe right there*

[@RhysGBiv]

When did they say that?

[@ZayO0]

@@RhysGBiv 7:55

[@Bruno-RR1]

LMFAO hard cringe

[@nenk0u]

Gamer Score ™

[@elliotkivi1682]

Åkaej

[@unclemagic9000]

That first ad is still probably the most pretentious and misleading commercial I've ever seen.

[@giygas79]

Not as bad as the Fyre Festival trailer my dude

[@JelliThePilot]

*in life or death situation, defusing a bomb* *using a fucking Kinect*

[@Satabell]

Kinect: Xbox Off best feature

[@zer0w0rries96]

We had so much fun in our house with the Kinect for years. I was even surprised when I started hearing that it was a flop. Everyone in our house loved playing with it. It was seriously the most fun I’ve ever had playing video games with a group of people. I think the mistake was Microsoft set the expectations way too high.

[@Tubuxis]

*$0.30 has been successfully deposited into your account. Thanks for being part of the Microsoft shill programme*

[@youseenednedisdead]

me and my family really liked dance central and we all bonded over it but after christmas the xbox went back in my room and there really wasnt much i could do with it in that small space :(

[@JustinRM20]

Same here. Met plenty of other kids online to play Kinect with or did bowling with my grandparents. It was pretty fun.

[@Floaydi]

Bro same Kinect was cool as fuck, I played Kinect adventures with my sisters and parents, that blue puppet cowboy guy, a superhero game with cool ass fights, and a mediocre harry Potter game. I also think that Kinect was good for people who weren't really watching the announcements etc about it.

[@xnto6829]

@@Tubuxisgo be miserable by urself

[@stuntminer144]

Could ya imagine if your teacher said "Alright kids we're gonna take a test on DNA structure" and she pulls out a kinect.

[@noproblemhere.4259]

Stunt Miner That teacher would be lit af.

[@spencerbailey8354]

XboxStation SwitchU How?

[@h0verman]

or opens an interactive website that models the structure of dna in 3d on a computer for free

[@simmerocky2393]

3 hour later she say ¨take it easy kids i will get it working.

[@newmoisturizer5054]

Teacher would accidentally slap a little kid in the process probably.

[@beastoftheeast7288]

I know she is a kid but that tiger scene made me cringe soo hard

[@thetoot9615]

Hard?

[@fireantgamer4614]

Take out cringe

[@dabadidabadax5]

@THETOOT @fireantgamer please stfu

[@mauroelawesome6247]

@@dabadidabadax5 Take out the cringe 0utw0rlder

[@dabadidabadax5]

@@mauroelawesome6247 exactly, PLEASE stfu🤢

[@abumwiththedrip]

We must take the time to appreciate the horrible acting of every single person introduced in this.

[@gwuas3604]

The first minute had good acting, everything else is doodoo

[@casscroute8706]

The one with the guys playing football was pretty good

[@mrECisME]

13:00 "The Power of Xbox, Simplicity of Kinect and Intelligence of Bing", sounds like the lamest power rangers transformers ever.

[@bre_yd4556]

I remember unplugging my Kinect whenever I went to sleep because I thought it was watching me

[@carldrogo9492]

Turned out to be true though.

[@richardwikert6503]

I used to beat it and stare directly into the kinect in the Hope's some dude who had to watch it was disgusted and creeped the fuck out lmao

[@richardwikert6503]

@False Flag if they wanna spy on me go ahead I'm gonna make it the worst experience of their life🤣

[@Treddian]

Smart move. I sat in on some of the meetings where the targeted advertising was discussed. I never used a Kinect at home because of it.

[@johnboko7110]

🎶And you got no privacy🎶

[@RedLemons19]

Aah yes, i can't wait to play "Single Mom Simulator" on Xbox

[@Der.Geschichtenerzahler]

I'd like to watch somebody playing that shit

[@userkjsd]

"Hi, I'm Tyrone, wanna play?"

[@estheay3611]

Mineta is thanos as an added dlc, you get to email KZbin and complain about your child watching “adult content”. You then get to bask in the glory of COPPA

[@estheay3611]

krepnata kadara but that only comes in the form of loot boxes

[@pixelatedbishop]

Will they release a multiplayer update where you download a dating app and find a abusive boyfriend?

[@grindhousefan80]

Imagine all the kinect consoles rotting away in some scalper's basement because they thought it would be the next big thing

[@keybyss98]

Eh, the scalpers deserve it tbh.

[@freezyy696]

@The greatest meme you obviously don’t know who scalpers are lol.

[@RowdyDandy]

@@freezyy696 nah hes one of them, just doesnt wanna admit that here xD

[@freezyy696]

@@RowdyDandy hahahaha that’s the only logical explanation

[@100gecsrbetterthangod5]

@@Username-2 that's a great point but you can still buy brand new kinect/360 consoles at a very cheap price. They were EVERYWHERE. It'll be a very long time before those are collected or worth anything.

[@CreeperSteve]

i will say this: i have used sample apps for the windows kinect sdk, and it is honestly very surprising what the kinect can do. there are even examples of gestures that would only be implemented on the xbox one, all using a 360 kinect. so i’d say that the camera itself was very impressive. i think the main thing was that developers for the 360 tried to use it in ways it wasn’t designed to do. and then of course the xbox one kinect came around, bundled with the console, and no one wanted it.

[@chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

Exactly. You break into one and there's tons of cool stuff that works. It's better if you can do some software work to one but stock hooking one to a PC is pretty cool if you like playing with electronics