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ggrobot
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 Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject: Microsoft's Kinect Patent Goes Big Brother [35227] |
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Microsoft has filed for a Kinect-related patent, and it's a doozy of an application. The abstract describes a camera-based system that would monitor the number of viewers in a room and check to see if the number of occupants exceeded a certain threshold set by the content provider.
Microsoft has filed for a Kinect-r
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Tom
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| This generation of consoles obviously sucks. I would still however buy a Xbox before I bought any POS from Sony. |
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tride
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... or Sony will just jump on the wagon and enforce those devices in our homes.
Well, there is a book that prophesied this  1984 |
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Apathy Curve
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I wonder if they count the family dog?
What a bone-headed idea. As if MS didn't already have enough public relations problems. |
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Baconnaise
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Interesting. We'll see what happens with all that. The whole IP/Copyright/Patent system has been abused and has been holding things back somewhat. We need it but then again we can't let it be abused either.
| Quote: | | This generation of consoles obviously sucks. I would still however buy a Xbox before I bought any POS from Sony. |
I like the look of the box but it's weaker spec wise and the features are lackluster. DVR overlay is a big fail. Live service to use apps that you already pay for is double dipping. Paywall for used games is again double dipping. Always online is a bit of a problem. Games are a problem as I believe the PS3 and PS4 have the exclusives again looks again. The other thing to take from all this is the PS3 made a better media box than 360 and even the xbox one at this point. MS took the media extender out so they can sit on a fat dick.
We'll see if Sony is just as retarded as MS. It's quite possible they will go full retard as well. |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| So you feed rubbish to the camera. What's the big deal? |
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