Kinect: missed opportunity. (Destiny)

by scarab , Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 02:36 (3833 days ago)

This is fairly tangential to Destiny but it has some relevance. I was going to include this in another post but it should probably be in its own post.

It's a pity MS knobbled Kinect by not giving it onboard ram and having it need to steal GPU ram. If they hadn't done that then you could have asked your Ghost to do things for you. XBone users could have said:

• "Ghost: shard all those greens." and your inventory could have been cleaned in one command.
  
• Ghost: invite fire-team or invite player to [fire-team | raid | crucible | nightfall | weekly]
  
• Ghost: go to Tower
  
• Ghost: send voice msg (you get to send a 20 second "tweet", for example, "Crota's End: Normal Mode?" press (X) to end recording, (O) to cancel)

But that wont happen until MS releases a version of Kinect with built in GPU ram.

It would have been great for xboners but... oh well... :-(

I know they had costs to worry about and Cortana wasn't far enough along but it's such a pity.

Cortana has to fit on smart phones and not hog resources. I imagine a Kinect with its own onboard GPU ram and some 'normal' ram to run something like Cortana and maybe a ram disk that developers could write config to.

At the simplest level: the config could associate a number with a phrase and, if Cortana hears it then the number is sent back to the game as an event (as if there was a dedicated button on the controller that the player had just pressed).