The "second generation" of Kinect games will show the technical leaps developers have made with Microsoft's motion sensor, according to Rare studio head Scott Henson.
"The great [thing] with Kinect is it's all software," added Rare incubation software director Nick Burton. "Yeah, there's a sensor bar there, but everything is dealt with in software, which means we can continue to push it."
Burton said that improvements to Kinect motion tracking have allowed the studio to tackle sports like golf and darts in Kinect Sports: Season 2, both of which proved problematic when developing the original game.
In addition, he said the studio's "really pushing" voice control for its upcoming sequel. One example is a virtual caddy which recognises over 300 phrases, allowing you to perform actions like changing your club with your voice.
Speaking in March, Henson and Burton said Rare had only taken advantage of "10 to 15 percent" of Kinect's technical potential - and that the studio's going great guns to fully explore the "virtually limitless" possibilities afforded by the device.
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22 comments so far...
slick loose on 26 Jul '11 said:
So...not really then.
TykerD3 on 26 Jul '11 said:
Kinect will never replace joypads though! I do like the idea of voice control combined with Joypad.
Soviet1918 on 26 Jul '11 said:
So if you paid your £130 ish for Kinect 1 ,,,, tuff go get Kinect 2 i guess thats what there saying,
Now i know why i didnt bother with it.
El Mag on 26 Jul '11 said:
Rare, here's £20. There's more where that came from if you get cracking on new Kameo and Conker games.
slick loose on 26 Jul '11 said:
Read the article, not just the title.
Kinnect
Kinnect 2
TykerD3 on 26 Jul '11 said:
They are not saying that at all. It means they have made advances with the Kinect Software and it feels like Kinect 2 would....its all about the software kids...
bazz2k on 26 Jul '11 said:
How about rare F Off back to your sh!tty little studio and keep making your crappy games of recent years!! MS killed Rare!!
Moorpheus on 26 Jul '11 said:
They said the same thing about SkyNet in Terminator and look how that turned out!
DAEDALUS79 on 26 Jul '11 said:
Not being funny but if youre saying that Kinect will at some point in the future turn into a terminator then I am buying one right now!
shogunreaper on 26 Jul '11 said:
Didn't they say that The starwars connect game was using the more advanced software for kinnect?
And we all know that was just pure rubbish.
jinjos on 26 Jul '11 said:
who needs rare we have retro studios now
MrPirtniw on 26 Jul '11 said:
All good- Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports work really well so it's cool to see the sequels will be improved. The Star Wars game looks dodgy- well, the combat does. The pod races look pretty good though.
only_777 on 26 Jul '11 said:
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/1/23/e37e6d66-385c-4ece-a079-55d0e4b64b7a.jpg
RetroJB on 26 Jul '11 said:
Voice control seems to be the systems main drive.
Every Xbox owner has a headset, so why not just implement voice command with that and save everyone a fortune.
As for Rare? They're Microsoft's Kinect whores. Their opinion of Kinect is worthless in my view.
totakeke on 26 Jul '11 said:
Some games do use the headsets, I seem to remember a lot of the more recent Tom Clancey games have voice control through the headset.
The problem with Kinnect is that because it's expensive nobody will buy one just for little extra voice control and camera manipulation extras and most established genres probably won't translate across well. Child of Eden was a missed opportunity, it looked good but Kinnect didn't add enough to the game, which is a shame really because I had high hopes.
kakah on 26 Jul '11 said:
wow...read behind the headline. It's sad that there are too many like you who read the headline and ignore the detail. I bet you read the News of the World.
altitude2k on 26 Jul '11 said:
Moron.
middle finger on 26 Jul '11 said:
This stuff is worth yet another xbox360 re-launch. Just like NXE.
alan666 on 26 Jul '11 said:
about time to !
some of the games have been pretty poor on the Kinect, what games have been released
REALTALK1987 on 26 Jul '11 said:
Agreed. Kinect has not impressed me too much , I hate on rail gameplay for the most part. Mass Effect 3 looks to kinda head in the right direction with the ability to tell teammates to use certain powers. So far though Kinect hasn't made it to core gamers hearts yet & still has a ways to go.
RetroJB on 27 Jul '11 said:
Almost a year on and still all we here from Microsoft and the likes of Rare - who are owned by Microsoft in case you have forgotten - is "Kinect will soon to deliver! The second wave is just around the corner!" and yet all we keep getting is tiresome shovelware and failed experiments likes Child of Eden and that awful Star Wars game.
The reality is that it's never going to deliver anything like some of you keep fantasising about or Microsoft have ever promised.
Lets be clear about this. Kinect is absolute sh*t; nothing but an expensive Eyetoy with a few extra bells and whistles.
Microsoft can bleat on about how many units they initially sold in it's first few months, but it counts for nothing when, as a system, it's a complete failure. And lets be honest, pre-owned Kinects are filling up the shelves of GAME and CEX at quite an alarming rate.
I've got one word for people who blow a load on Kinect. Mug.
Deinsleaf on 27 Jul '11 said:
Gah. I still don't get the whole idea of motion control. If I wanted to exercise, dance, play a sport and what have you, I'd actually go outside and do those things in reality. If I want to play games I'd use a damn keyboard and mouse or a controller.