Hunting Ghosts with Xbox Kinect

For this one, we'll go into a bit of the recent history of the Xbox Kinect, I think, Ray.

So obviously the device, which I think came out in 2010 originally, the whole idea was to be able to play things like dance games without having a controller.

And it was kind of Microsoft's first, I would say, big attempt to try and change the way that we interacted with video games in that kind of physical way rather than holding a controller.

And it also came off the back of Nintendo Wii, which had already done this.

So you moved a controller around instead of just pushing buttons.

It was very physical.

But Microsoft obviously wanted to push this a little bit further.

Absolutely.

And I remember really enjoying the Kinect, but I also remember a lot of people hating it.

yeah

i think that there was just a lot of people that it didn't resonate with i i think i ignored their whinging at the time so i haven't retained the information that they were screaming into the void it's not real gaming but i thought it was fantastic yeah i particularly did enjoy it for the dance games just dance was my jam

I love Just Dance so much.

It just reminds me of PAX and doing it at a large scale.

It's so much fun.

But you're exactly right.

The whole idea was to stand in front of your TV, you wave your arms around, you dance, kick, do whatever, because it was also sports games that this worked for as well.

And one that didn't say that you're obese according to your BMI.

Like

the Wii did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very judgy, the

way.

Very, very judgy.

So, so judgy.