Is snapping porn possible? IF yes best console ever
Well, you can snap in IE and flash is supported...
Is snapping porn possible? IF yes best console ever
Nah man we don't need logic, Microsoft needs to see our dicks. Think of the advert potential...
...please dont
There's a lot of outdated information in that video...
My launch will consist of streaming myself snapping porn and showing off my kinect dickWell, you can snap in IE and flash is supported...
There is no telling what the NSA could do with that information. Penis database anyone?
Terrifying, hilarious, and I think it just sold me on an Xbox One. Well done.
BUT DESIGNING AROUND MALE GENITALIA IS NOTHING NEW FOR VIDEO GAME CONSOLES.
The Kinect is one of the most amazing pieces of consumer hardware on the planet. It can recognize the human anatomy with incredible logic and accuracy. And when Microsofts new Xbox One comes out next month, every unit will be packaged with an improved Kinect, capable of 1080p Skype video and improved 3-D fidelity that, using an IR camera, can even make out your body in the dark. With extreme specificity.
In fact, while Id intended to post the above tech demo of the improved Kinect from Microsoft Research, I noticed, alongside the intricacies of a hoodie and jeans--and theres no graceful way to put this--a dong. The Kinect hardware/software is now so effective at deciphering the bumps and folds of clothing that it can pinpoint a mans package down to its pant leg, carving out the distinctive folds in our trousers that society, backed by a bit of shadowy denim, has become remarkable at ignoring.
As soon as I made the observation, it brought me back to a moment I must have repressed during the Xbox One announcement at Microsofts campus in Redmond. Testing the new Kinect in a cozy room, I, amongst a small handful of journalists and engineers who I didnt know, caught a glance at my own man lump snake python on the screen. I felt the fear of every ninth-grade boy called up to the chalkboard.
Truthfully, a small percentage of Xbox owners may ever have such an experience. This topographical view is essentially a debug mode (I believe, accessible to gamers, but far from standard), and most Kinect experiences will likely render you as a bubbly asexual cartoon or a character with stock anatomy, smoothing over everything from hoodie strings to the overzealous nipples.
But as everyday technologies get better at seeing us naked, it does call to question: Should developers start thinking about censoring their imaging APIs? Should a company like Microsoft algorithmically smooth over chests, rears, and crotches at the core layers of their technology to protect a users chastity in the uncanny valley of nudity? Because while the Kinect isnt nearly as anatomically omniscient as the TSAs controversial millimeter wave scanners and Backscatter X-ray machines, its still processing our anatomy at a level more acute than the human eye, and its only going to get better.
AS EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES GET BETTER AT SEEING US NAKED, SHOULD DEVELOPERS START THINKING ABOUT CENSORING THEIR IMAGING APIS?
As absurd as this problem may sound, the consoles have a history of designing around sexuality--what most of us would agree is a necessary countermeasure on platforms where five-year-olds may interact with 50-year-olds. Xbox Live gamertags and profiles, for instance, ban topics or content of a sexual nature. (This policy led to mass bannings of subscribers who used the words gay and lesbian a few years ago, when Microsoft clarified the policy was not driven by an anti-gay agenda, but because a vast majority of users were using those words as insults.) The Nintendo Wii U took on dongs in a more direct manner, when their latest console allowed users to draw on the walls of Miiverse message boards: The company actually developed algorithms derived from popular, Western styles of penis sketch to detect and block phallic imagery. (Crafty artists beat the code, but Nintendos heart was in the right place.)
Almost everything in this article is laughable, so Im not going to pretend that Microsoft is violating us, or spotting anything that a strong squint couldnt already see. And Im certainly not going to imply that some exacerbated shadowing around someones crotch will defile the youth of our society. The new Kinect certainly isnt malevolent; its just engineering that works a bit too well, and is sharing that a half step more socially than we might want it to be.
As increasingly capable technologies become more personal, were going to have to think less about what we can do, and more about what we shouldn't do. Whether it's Kinect staring at our crotches, Amazon peeking into our buying habits, or Facebook leering at our social life, the technology industry will have to continually strike a design balance between the granular information they see and the information about ourselves that we see.
Because if Ive learned one thing in 31 years of masculinity, its that nobody ever wants to see my placket-racket flopping around in the living room.
Erm wait, so everytime you have guests or friends coming by to play with you Xbox One, it will scan them? Lmao
Is anyone actually worried about this?
Is anyone actually worried about this?
Beautiful
I am excited for the gaming applications. I want to construct a dick symphony.
Will you get Achievements for your penis?
To be honest I'm mostly afraid the kinect will alert the police that a brown person as me have to much stuff at home...if it can even see me that is.
This is really important...Something like the PlayStation common-ultra rare rankings....
- Common size 4"
- Everything inbetween
- John Holmes 12"
To be honest I'm mostly afraid the kinect will alert the police that a brown person as me have to much stuff at home...if it can even see me that is.