VGR: "After announcing the Fun Labs during the Microsoft press conference they told us it will be available today to download. I did so and essentially these are just tech demos. That isn’t a bad thing it is simply showing off what the Kinect can do and overall it the potential to be pretty impressive."
With the continued absence of Joseph Barron (Kwalee) Nick Lynch once again stakes his claim for the host’s chair. But lo, he has tales of Child of eden, Papa Roch and kinect fun labs mars rover landing. Mark Craven is swinging a crowbar like its 1998. While Richard Plant (Gameforge) sounds off about Kickstarter, The Walking Dead, and tries his best to verbalise ‘To the Moon’.
Runtime – 01:11:32
Episode Number – 118
What Games – Black Mesa, machinarium, Rayman origins, child of eden, Fun labs, the walking dead, to the moon, wii u, Project Eternity, Gary Whitta, Telltale, introversion, Humble bundle, Kickstarter, obsidian
James Steel writes -
"Kinect Fun Labs is certainly case of promise vs. reality. Announced at E3 2011, the new application promised fun, quirky, experimental side projects that aimed to show off unique ideas and concepts for the Kinect. While some of that may be true, there’s definitely potential for so much more. The unfortunate reality has resulted in paid-for widgets that are pretty shallow. While I’m not going to argue that I haven’t had fun with the current offerings such as Googly Eyes, Build a Buddy and Air Band, it’s far from what the service should have been.
Imagine of the Kinect Fun Labs application was much more open, just like the Indie Games platform, allowing developers to release free or cheap experimental applications for Kinect gamers to play. There’s certainly been a huge influx of Kinect titles recently, more so with ‘Kinect features’, but there’s nothing quite like community projects."
Gaming Update's CM Boots-Faubert takes a look at The Kinect Fun Labs and its most recent add-ins in an exploration of the utilities and apps that offer gamers a deep exploration of the capabilities of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect motion-sensing controller.
It was cool for a while. I liked creating myself as an avatar. But other than that.....we shall see.
They're a moment's fun on their own, but the very best use of these would be to implement them as features into full games.