So Close, Yet So Far With Xbox One's Kinect

what was that shit at the end?

Great piece and I loved the format - would definitely love to see more of this on the site. Thanks Patrick!

Love this video. More videos like this.

More please, Patrick!

This was great Patrick. keep em coming.

A controller is pretty consistent.

I like the format. It's kinda like The Point with Danny O'Dwyer.

More videos like this.

Great video Patrick! We usually only see usability in carefully orchestrated demos and after we buy the product and try them out ourselves so it's great to see normal usability without having to see/own the product first-hand and you still kept a critical eye on things that are wonking or not working (hopefully Netflix will update it's app with better voice support to match Amazon but there is no guarantee of that). Anyway, more of these would be great!

I want to see more stuff like this.

How did I not know about evil bong 3? My life was a lie until now.

Inconsistencies between apps are largely developer dependent. Have you checked out the YouTube app? It does some crazy stuff that goes completely against Xbox One design philosophy. I'd love to see a scathing review of that.

Look at all these comments!

Good job, Patrick. I also vote for more of these!

Well done Scoops

This was cool, @patrickklepek--it communicated the inefficiencies and shortcomings of the Kinect in a manner that would have been unachievable, or at least underemphasised, via a purely textual format. Slightly reminiscent of the glossy (yet, sadly abandoned) video reviews of yore. Tonally, it was on point, and a pleasant departure from more recent methods of content delivery. I look forward to more videos of this type.

Much appreciated video. I would vote for more in a similar vein.

I am a PlayStation guy having a decent time with my PS4(camera-less for now), and while I don't have any plans in the near future to purchase an Xbox One, I am curious about it's functionality and how things are 6 months or so in. I haven't heard much positive talk when it comes to the new Kinect's voice control functions, but I couldn't tell if that was just finicky gamers who didn't really want to like that part of their Xbox One anyway.

Thanks for giving your impressions and some of the positives and negatives from your use so far. It must be a tall task to get every app on-board and integrated with Kinect voice control, but l also feel like if that is what you are going for, you really have to go all out. It sounds like it is neat and serviceable but far from perfect. The good thing is that it can improve with updates...hopefully it does, with the increasing numbers of apps on the consoles, it would be helpful to have something that eased navigating through them.

I like this, I want to see more of what actually does and doesn't work on the Xbox One. I've given up on using kinect. I guess I should try Bing.

Great video Paddy, but the background music was a bit too loud on too many occasions!

Good format and duration for this, Patrick.

I like the whole editorial in video form idea, but I have no idea why anybody wants to control their game console with their voice.

Love this! Really well put together. Great way to do opinion pieces.

This was very informative and tightly produced. Please keep it up.

I would love to comment on the subject matter, but I'm just a little awe struck over the presentation. Seriously, I hope content like this becomes more commonplace. Really well done.

I've really liked using a combination of voice and the iphone smartglass app when I don't want to touch the controller for netflix/tv, especially when you connect it to volume control and stuff.

this was great.

music was spot on.

please continue doing these - almost like bite-sized mini articles.

Awesome job, Scoops. More like this please. :)

That was great. I want to see more videos like this.

Great videooooooooo

This was cool, thanks Patrick!

This is my favorite new format in a long time. Wow.

I usually hate hearing the GB crew doing non-casual-dialogue stuff. It usually sounds so forced and fake and... radio-ey compared to normal. But Patrick really sounded the right balance of prepared and casual.

Super cool.

Good work. Keep making these, please!

This was a fantastic video. I'd love to see more of it!

Real, real good Patrick.

Good stuff Scoops. Do some more!

This is the best! :D

You know what they could do to sidestep the whole issue of naming conventions is to just put a little giantbomb logo next to the title of all giantbomb produced content. This would automatically differentiate all of their stuff out clearly from the trailers and marketing videos from publishers.

This was a great feature Patrick. I'd like to see more of these

Patrick with the short form video FTW! Well done. I enjoy the tone and the pacing and would love to see more like this. Just don't take away the long stuff.

Great vid Patrick. As someone who went with PS4 i dont have access to Kinect and therefore dont know how its coming along. Im a fan of technology and interested in its progress, i just didnt have 5 bills to watch it stumble up close. Would definitely be into you doing something in this realm, periodically.

This was super slick Patrick. Definitely would like to see more.

Nice job Patrick! Well tracked, voiced, and edited.

more please!

More stuff like this!

I like this. More please.

Thanks Patrick, more stuff like this!

Someone's been watching The Point ;)

But seriously this was great, would love to see more.

That was great! Please more!

Almost 500 comments! Is this even more popular than the Caravella Comics Corner?

I don't have a kinect but I also like to use my voice for navigation, writing e-mails and so on.

I found this video infuriating because certainly everything that Patrick wants can be implemented with no problems, this is more someone at Amazon/Netflix failing to do a proper usability study on how to exploit this technology.

Certainly this looks like an App problem but seeing how similar both applications fail at the search in similar ways, I am more inclined to think Microsoft is not providing the API or at least documentation on how to do this.

I'd hate it if Netflix was a big reason people give Kinect 2.0 so much crap. Netflix's UI sucks no matter how you access it.

The dumbest thing is that Sony actually made a perfect virtual keyboard for controllers in the PS2 era, but then dropped it on the PS3 and later in favor of a qwerty keyboard that's just awkward to navigate with an controller, and the only ones to learn anything from the PS2 were Valve who implemented that flower petal design in Steam's Big Picture Mode.