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Originally Posted by sonick
Did you get a chance to test the Head-Tracking? Debating whether to get a Kinect.
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Sonic,
To be honest I need to put more time into configuring it. I spent a little time trying to configure it and ran into some problems. I sit about 3ft away from my TV and my kinect sits on top of the TV.
During setting it up, it had a hard time finding my head while I sat in my lazy boy. In the setup screen your able to clip away background images, which I did just fine. It's just sometimes the kinect would grab my hand as my head when I'm shifting gears with my six speed shifter. I wanted to keep going but decided to just hop into the game right away.
I'll spend more time on it to try to get it going. Come to think of it, I think what I have to do is move the kinect motor up more and not having pointing down as much. That way not have it even look at me from the chest down, it should track my head better then.
Don't know how I didn't come up with that before. lol. I'll post my results. Even if you wanted to you can go buy a Kinect, if you don't like it return it. That's the great thing about Futureshop and Best Buy return policy to be honest. Nonetheless, I'll post my results tonight...sorry for the delay
One thing that it's great for is voice integration. Not having to go through the menu system is a nice time saver. At anytime I can say "xbox", and say anything that pops up on the bottom of the screen. Example, I can jump into Rivals, right from inside painting a car, or upgrade shop. Just from the car club screen, straight to my career I jusy say "xbox", "career". Which I've found helpful to be honest. I've won some cars from doing rival challenges and once I hit a certain level I get rewarded a car and it tells me to go to career mode. I just use the voice to jump straight to career, pick my new car and jump straight back to Rivals