People in the Xbox business unit researched the concept and determined it couldn't be done, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer said. "They concluded it was impossible. It wasn't going to work,".
But then they decided to approach workers in Microsoft's research arm. Researchers there in a wide array of fields including depth sensing, machine learning, speech recognition, gestural interface, computer vision, identity recognition, sound processing and parallel computing got together to build what is now known as Kinect.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
They didn't conclude it was impossible lol, they concluded that it wouldn't give the kind of experience a real gamer could enjoy. At most Kinect is just a machine made for shovelware and at the least for things like headtracking and navigating menus.
"Few companies have the research depth to build something like Kinect..."
But two passed on the technology first?
"Microsoft came up with the concept behind Kinect..."
Who are they trying to fool or do they actually believe MS invented this tech?
Just seems like there's a lot of misinformation creeping around the interwebs involving Kinect. Why can't they just focus on what it can actually do, which, at the minute, isn't much. The tech is just not ready for advanced interation with computers... maybe with a decent internal chip and a few other hardware revisions future versions of these cameras may have a lasting inpact on the industry but not right now.
Here they come again. Brace yourselves.