The claim might be that it's to move to a better neighborhood, or get a better rate on a mortgage, or be near a better school, but we know better. It won't happen immediately, but sometime soon, you'll start hearing suggestions why it might be a good idea to move. Let's say you bring home the Kinect and your wife decides she likes one of those dance games - but it's not comfortable playing anywhere in the house. If you're married, you'll understand how things are when your wife really wants something. Okay, I know this sounds ludicrous, but that's because you've probably never been married. Reason 3: You might have to buy a bigger house If you don't want things to break, either don't get a Kinect - or get a bigger house. Yes, this could be related to the first reason, but the simple fact is that if you do decide to go with a space smaller than the bridge of the Enterprise (with the helm and navigation stations, Captain's chair, and handrail dividers all removed), you will break things.
Your kids might like it, but they'll wind up breaking things, go to the hospital, develop a negative association with Thanksgiving or Christmas, and never, ever come to visit you in your old age. The bottom line is this: the Kinect requires an astonishing amount of space (16 feet by 8 feet is about the workable minimum) and if you can't easily produce that space, you're not going to enjoy the Kinect. Otherwise, you're going to be crashing into each other, bashing each other, and possibly poke your eye out. Once you get to two people, you need a space at least 12 feet wide. In fact, the area required by the Kinect when doing its original facial recognition processing was close to eight feet by eight feet - and that was once the player was eight feet away from the Kinect. You might start eight feet away, but then need to move back another six to eight feet. You don't just play with the Kinect on a single plane. For one person, you need a space about eight feet wide.īut that's not all. With one person and a play space about six feet wide, we still bumped into pictures on the wall on one side and a computer monitor on a desk on the other. If you want to play with two people, the area required becomes even more. Microsoft knows this, because before Kinect Adventures loads, it shows pictures of players moving not just side chairs and a coffee table, but moving the entire couch out of the way to play using the Kinect. Most people don't sit that far away from their TVs to watch TV. But when we set up the Kinect (almost exactly like in the picture) it did not register either of two adults (one smaller, one larger) properly. First, as the image below shows, the Kinect claims to need a minimum of six feet.
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