Comments on: Kinect + Skype = Video Calling Magic

By: IT Training

IT Training — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:31:35 +0000

Kinect + Skype = Video Calling Magic http://t.co/d6J3i1i2

By: Jvr

Jvr — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:54:59 +0000

In fact I know a lot of people who use Skype videochat to see & speak with relatives-friends abroad. And it also happens that a considerable proportion of these people happen to have Xbox+ Kinect. In my opinion, the combination of Skype+Kinect should be the next natural step.

Maybe people will not buy a Xbox+Kinect to use Skype’s VC capabilities, but a proportion of existing Xbox-Live users (I believe the base is currently 40m) could be tempted to get a Kinect for VC reasons in addition to gaming given that they are already Skype users.

By: SK

SK — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:40:16 +0000

Nuvixa only requires the Kinect camera, which connects to any PC through USB. It does not require the XBox

By: Keerti

Keerti — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:30:59 +0000

Either you are a troll or are smoking some serious stuff. Or your mommy no hug you?

By: John

John — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:22:12 +0000

People don’t seem to realize how many more Skype users will be created by this buyout. Hotmail is still the number 1 web-based email service in the world and Skype will take the place of Live Messenger on the site as well as offline in Outlook. Skype will take the place of video Kinect on 50 million Xbox consoles. And Skype will presumably take the place of or plug into Windows Live Messenger (which is very popular in Europe). That represents hundreds of millions of new consumers connecting to the Skype network. And Skype was already doing an excellent job expanding the userbase by embedding into TV’s and Blu-ray players from Samsung, Panasonic, and Sony.

Once the integration is complete Skype will instantly become the defacto standard for voice and video chat throughout the world. Apple Facetime and Google Talk become silo-ed boutique applications of marginal value because they are not ubiquitous.

By: John

John — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:09:13 +0000

Wow I must have stepped into a time machine because this Xbox bashing rhetoric is about 3 or 4 years outdated. Way to keep up with the times Sony fanboy. RROD, noise, HD DVD??? Seriously? Check a calendar; it’s not 2007 anymore.

As if Microsoft bought Skype to sell Xbox. The Xbox 360 has been the top selling console in America for the past 11 months. Every single month since the launch of Kinect they’ve broken all previous years sales records for Xbox 360. The Kinect is in the Guiness Book for being the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history. Kinect Sports has sold over 3 million copies worldwide already and Dance Central is quickly approaching the 3 million mark.

Adding Skype to Xbox matters because 55 million people already have an Xbox 360 in their home. So now everyone with a Skype enabled smartphone, TV, blu-ray player, or computer can chat with the 55 million Xbox consoles in the world. (Remember that Skype is both audio and video chat). This makes Skype the predominant chat application in the living room, bed room, and on the smartphone. And frankly it makes Apple’s Facetime and Google Talk a joke. Skype is on Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone. Google Talk is only on Android. Facetime is only on iOS. Skype is on millions of web enabled set top boxes, televisions, blu-ray players, and game consoles. Google Talk is on? Facetime? They have no presence in the living room.

By: Peter Cradlesky

Peter Cradlesky — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:22:09 +0000

This is pure and simple MS Bashing. Back up your facts before simply bashing on a technology (or company) you don’t like.

Kinect is based on software technology developed internally by Rare, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios owned by Microsoft, and on range camera technology by Israeli developer PrimeSense, which interprets 3D scene information from a continuously-projected infrared structured light. It was incubated by Microsoft at the start.

The XBox and the Kinect are FAR from beeing garbage. Sure, the early versions of the XBox 360 had their problems, but the releases in the last years are very stable. I got mine in 2008…and it’s still running like a charm. Noisy? Pure whinning I think. Never bothered me. And again, the newest version is very quiet.

Kinect is a very nice product. The Wii initiated the movement, but I had the chance to touch the 3 main technologies (Wii, PS3 Move and Kinect). The Kinect is by FAR the most complelling and fun to play with. It’s in early stages, but still is AWESOME. Playing Dance Central on the XBox + Kinect is much more exciting than Just dance 2 on the Wii – where you could simply sit down and just move your hand to have a high-score!!!

Microsoft made bad software and hardware, but also good software and hardware. kinect falls in the latest in my opinion. Be more objective please.

Peter.

By: Tribex

Tribex — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:19:56 +0000

Yes, I agree with the above statement ” without skype on windows phone being a hit “. I still can not figure out the need to buy out skype as windows mobile platform would have used skype as an App on windows 7 mobile platform as we are using in android and iphone.
And this video Tele conferencing thing has nothing to offer day to day mobile users for example how many people use the call conferencing feature available to us for so long in your daily life.
No wonder skype came a long way in terms of video and voice quality in recent years but they were not able to cop with the emerging voip trends and new competitors like Google video and voice.

It will be interesting to see how will facebook takes it. I was expecting FB to come up with some kind of video chat feature and this might have gave them something to think about.

By: r00fus

r00fus — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:37:18 +0000

Sanjay,
The cost of Kinnect belies the true cost: XBox+Kinnect is $300-$400, and a decent enough broadband connection to make TV-calling worthwhile is probably over $75/mo (this assumes US market, but we are talking about MSFT here).

Unless the situation on broadband caps is changed (perhaps MS can get a deal with incumbents like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T) there is no way any of this disruptive tech will make a dent in the market.

By: ltdime07

ltdime07 — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:29:43 +0000

All these apple ass kissers exposing themselves! They don’t realise how lame and one dimensional that Facetime looks compared to this.