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

@patrickklepek really enjoyed the video, always cool to see you try new video ideas, can't wait for more

This was great Patrick, but I would suggest that the music was a touch too loud. Other than that bravo.

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This was amazing. You did a great job summing up what's great and wrong with Kinect's voice recognition feature. I guess we all have to start somewhere.

Nice little video, but the background audio could have definitely been a bit lower.

It's nice to have some short form videos go up. Thumbs up for more short, focused pieces.

The voice search inconsistancy on Xbox 360 and Xbox One between apps and the operating system is much the same as the Kindle Fire TV. The OS and the apps don't work together as you would expect and interestingly Microsoft's and Amazon standards for app creators don't require them to use voice in a consistent way. I think that video and music apps creators would benefit from both Microsoft and Amazon opening their search API to them to improve the experience for everyone. Hopefully this video shines a light on this and we see voice search integrated across both OS and apps in the future.

That was pretty sweet. I think this would be an interesting change from written articles.

I actually wish Giant Bomb would do a little more "produced" stuff. Live off-the-cuff streams and videos are great and all, but it only takes the GOTY stuff to let you know how much the crew can do when they put a little time into things.

Hopefully, the acquisition of a new production guy will help in that sense.

Anyway, great video Patrick. Very well done.

I like it.

Xbone is ass-backwards! News at 11!

I got one of them too and there are some conveniences with the voice control, like snapping stuff.

Then there's some stuff that I believe they designed to intentionally harass you into using Kinect, such as the way that it *needs* to have Kinect attached to log you in and can't just be set to automatically log into your profile on boot.

Microsoft will really have to show something special at E3 that uses the Kinect in a meaningful way, because if it's just gonna be more shovelware minigame collections, there was no reason to include it with every system sold.

I'd like to see stuff like this, especially when it comes to things I'm not familiar with.

Slick video. More of these, for sure. Thanks, Patrick!

You said let you know if I wanted more and I do. This is a great little five minute piece of content and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not sure what else you could do these video bites over but I'll watch them, that's for certain. Sometimes I don't have the time for an hour long quicklook. : (

With the music, i just kept thinking @patrick was trapped in some detective noir(sp..?) 50s drama. Awesome video, and i thought it was fun exploration of more things, GiantBomb Chicago and Scoops can bring to the site. :)

Good shit Patrick.

Fantastic viddddd

Well Patrick, at least you're able to use this feature at all. Because Microsoft has decided that us Europeans are completely incapable of speaking (proper) English (notice my shaky grammar and many spelling mistakes as I'm writing this) and has disabled the feature for every EU country except England! The only time I've been able to actually use the Kinect voice commands was in Halo Anniversary. And it actually worked quite well despite the fact that I'm Dutch and shouldn't be able to speak American at all (at least according to Microsoft). I guess we'll just have to wait and see if they decide to grant us this feature on the Xbox One. Except we won't find out until September when it becomes available in the Netherlands! Oh, and the PS4 has been available since last Christmas in case you were wondering. So guess which console has been selling better...

Oh man, definitely keep this kind of thing going. I like it.

Dear Patrick Vivian Klepstein,

I want to see more stuff like this.

Well done. I liked it.

That was great, Patrick! More videos like this please. I wouldn't mind seeing the other guys do videos like this as well.

Please more stuff like this! Short, informative, and still cool.

Also that music + "Next Page" will haunt me.

this was a cool wee video, I liked it a lot. It was a nice change of pace compared to the more lengthy discussions on the site.

Awsome video!

Smooth Jazz made this video @patrickklepek.

I still think Kinect is super clumsy and dumb. The only time it's faster to use voice then it is a controller is when you want to jump from one app straight into another. So if you're in a game and you want to jump to settings, saying "Xbox go to settings" could potentially be faster then pressing the home button, navigating to settings and then pressing A. This is all assuming that the Xbox even hears you which I feel like it often doesn't on the first try.

Nice video, more of those.

Come to think of it, considering most non-gaming related features of the Xbox One don't work for the majority of customers, may it be because they don't use cable, or set-top boxes, or because there's no netflix services and the likes, it would be pretty awesome if Microsoft releases an Xbox One without all that bloat in the said regions at a cheaper price. Removing the set-top box ability (which again is pretty useless in the majority of Europe) would probably reduce the cost of the console, because right now of the 101 features of the Xbox One, only one (nice pun there) works for me, and that's playing games.

Call to action to comment, but not to like/subscribe? Pat, you need to fully embrace the youtube culture!

Video was great, though.

Very enjoyable. I think you might have found your format (as pretentious and overblown as that may sound), Patrick.

Cool video, I'd love to see more of these from you.

I am in love with these comments - you guys are great. I also didn't realize this was GB content until I saw something on Jeff's tumblr about it. This is great, Patrick.

One novelty-sized thumbs up from me. Even though I don't have any interest in this particular issue (right now anyways).

So many comments! I would also love to see more stuff like this on the site, @patrickklepek.

So, the Kinect is, for the most part, meh. Hopefully stuff like this will just continue to get better over time. I really have no use for it on my gaming system, but there are many other applications for it.

More of these please

So...what you are saying is that you want to like it and so you do, but its still a mess.

A lack of Netflix integration also makes the Amazon Fire TV's voice recognition next to worthless.

It has really good voice recognition, it works a lot better in part because the microphone is in the remote, it doesn't need insane technology to pick you up from across the room, and you don't have to address it, it only listens while you hold down the button. But without Netflix integrated it makes the whole thing just lame.

Using video to convey the points about Microsoft's current voice technology is a brilliant idea, and did way more to help those of us who don't have an Xbox One to understand why there are both good and bad aspects to the implementation. Great job! I really enjoyed the editing as well. Definitely would love to see more like this in the future!

this was a really cool video, Id like to see more stuff like this on the site.

I'll throw my hat in for more coverage in this style, and as a secondary request ask that every GB video in the future be scored with some sweet fucking jazz (and, if possible, edit it into all past content).

This video cut to the chase in an intelligent format that I enjoyed watching. I would love to see this same format applied to the PS4 controller trackpad. +1

Music was a bit too loud. It was really distracting at certain points.

I'm into this as a new feature Quick Critiques.

Great feature Patrick. I really like the production.

I can't believe it took me so long to finally watch this. Great work, Patrick! That was really insightful and fun to watch. 8)

I would love to see more well-produced content like this on Giant Bomb.

First of all, yeah the music. I thought some tab was open somewhere.

Second, you kind of hit on the most depressing thing about the One- I expected this sort of jank from Gen1 Kinect but expected it to be smooth on the One. You know, what they said it would be.

I also want to see more stuff like this..

Ditto

wow I'm surprised at how reasonable the comments are for this. I expected alot of people being really negative and yelling at each other. I guess you just can't deny that kinect is bad. Or rather operating computers with your voice is bad across the board and kinect is a good way to illustrate that.

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