Saturday, August 10, 2013

Xbox Developer Says the New Kinect is Slow

Dualshockers: Game developer and id Software Technical Director John Carmack criticizes the new Kinect's latency, framerate and mode of interaction with the user:

"I used to give Apple a lot of grief about the one-button mouse when anybody working with the mouse really wanted more buttons. Kinect is sort of like a zero-button mouse with a lot of latency on it."

3 comments:

  1. "The new Kinect is slow" ? As somebody commented in the linked page, it seems to be a criticism of the 1st Kinect.

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    1. To me it looks like he's talking about the new Kinect. But you are right, it's not stated unambiguously.

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  2. You need the context for what JC is saying. Likely JC is mating Kinect with Oculus and the end to end latency from Kinect to Oculus is too large (>30ms). JC probably wants less than 33ms or 16ms.

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