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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. If there are too many warm bodies present, the device owner would be prompted to purchase a license for a greater number of viewers.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa

holy fuck that's ridiculous to a degree i didn't think was possible

i told you all microshit was evil

but noooooo you just had to think li'l ol' daisy was crazy the head eh

oaky wrote:holy fuck that's ridiculous to a degree i didn't think was possible

you have to pay for a liscense to set how many users you get

you dumb motherfuckers

lol
people will do it though

Fun fact; Xbox one won't work if you disconnect the Kinect

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached

FUCK VIDEO GAMES

spacejamsk8r wrote:Fun fact; Xbox one won't work if you disconnect the Kinect

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached

already knew this
bet you could cover the heat sensor or trick the console into thinking a kinect is connected

spinnythings wrote:

spacejamsk8r wrote:Fun fact; Xbox one won't work if you disconnect the Kinect

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached

already knew this
bet you could cover the heat sensor or trick the console into thinking a kinect is connected

nope it requires "warm bodies" in its vision to work

if you cover it up it won't function

just aim it toward a hotdog

spinnythings wrote:just aim it toward a hotdog

are you sure it wont be able to differentiate between a hot dog and a human?

spacejamsk8r wrote:

spinnythings wrote:just aim it toward a hotdog

are you sure it wont be able to differentiate between a hot dog and a human?

maybe if you make the hotdog move

spinnythings wrote:

spacejamsk8r wrote:

spinnythings wrote:just aim it toward a hotdog

are you sure it wont be able to differentiate between a hot dog and a human?

maybe if you make the hotdog move

perpetual motion hasn't been made yet, we need something to hold the fucker up

that raises the question of why we would invent a machine to trick a kinect into thinking hotdogs are human

for science of course!

Put it on front of your pet

ok lets just throw some code or some shit onto a flashdrive to connect to the kinect slot and fool the xbox into thinking it has the kinect connected

spinnythings wrote:ok lets just throw some code or some shit onto a flashdrive to connect to the kinect slot and fool the xbox into thinking it has the kinect connected

there's a version of FreeBSD made to run on the original XBOX, not sure if it would function on this thing though

It's not even confirmed there is a ton of bitching about it probably won't happen

Red Epoch wrote:It's not even confirmed there is a ton of bitching about it probably won't happen

no it's confirmed they had an interview and everything

spacejamsk8r wrote:

Red Epoch wrote:It's not even confirmed there is a ton of bitching about it probably won't happen

no it's confirmed they had an interview and everything

gay

put a little screen in front of the sensor that models the skeleton that the kinect tracks so it can think you're always present

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/xbox.html

i've been itching to get a hugebox so i can give that shit a spin for a while now