Microsoft looking for team to work with Kinect

[BeckoningZebra1]

Microsoft has begun taking applications to join a new development team to work within its Xbox division.

 

 

This new development team seems to be primarily focused on dealing with systems relating to the Kinect and the enhancement thereof. 

 

After reading the full job listing one can come to the conclusion that Microsoft is looking for a strong team that can push the Kinect to its limits.

 

Microsoft also seems to realize that the future of Xbox gaming may not lie in the Kinect as can be seen in this excerpt in the job listing: "If you want a comfortable, standard-role job at Microsoft with no ambiguity or risk, please don’t apply." 

 

Still, this listing implies Microsoft is looking to greatly enhance the experience provided by the Kinect. 

 

"But if you’re passionate about the potential for Kinect to continue to revolutionize entertainment and are a seasoned software engineer with the skills to prototype and build the future of premium Kinect-powered experiences, we have a growing team of talented people who want to take entertainment into the future."

 

To read the full job listing, CLICK HERE.

 

What do you think of this job listing? Should we expect to see another Kinect or more Kinect features in the future? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

SOURCE: MICROSFT CAREERS; IGN

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[Caboose The Ace]

In all honestly I don't know why Ms keep trying.

 

Kinect is a gimmick, I know because I brought one. You play it once think its cool and never really play it again.......

 

When Ms brought Rare a lot of people were excited and what happened to Rare? They were sent to work on Kinect.

 

Ms should sweep Kinect under the rug and forget about it, they tried something and it failed.

 

The only useful think the Kinect does is...

 

Xbox on ( for the super lazy gamer like myself ) and when you wave those annoying codes you get for games at it and it registers so you don't spent a good 10 mins typing it on the Xbox.

[rrhuntington]

Just make progress, and NEVER regress to this:

Edited January 6, 2015 by rrhuntington

[VinWarrior]

Just make progress, and NEVER regress to this:

 

There is one worse... Far worse...

 

NEVER AGAIN!

 

Good news to hear that MS wants to improve the Kinect, I think in the right situations it could be useful, but me personally, I don't like using Kinect. It's preference, but GG on microsoft for assisting those who enjoy it.

[joshyzburton]

You know what they say about flogging a dead horse

[BATMAN]

I find it, quite frankly, disgusting that they're still trying to push the Kinect.

 

After all the blatantly creepy things they're so excited about it doing, how does anyone have any faith in it?

Maybe it's just me here, but voice commands and full-body control is, at its very core, a gimmick.

 

And the Kinect has went from a funny gimmick to a creepy gimmick. What's next? An always-on gimmick?

Microsoft should just pack the Kinect away in its sad, cold, and shallow grave.

[Buns]

In all honestly I don't know why Ms keep trying.

 

Kinect is a gimmick, 

Because Kinect has a LOT of potential.

 

Just not for Games...........(or most games. For some games like some indie platformer I saw coming to the X1 that uses Kinect in an interesting way)

 

Kinect has been used as a budget motioncapture tool for those looking into Animation, it can also be used as a 3D Scanner (there are many examples these are just my favorites)

 

 

 

Very off the walls article BZ. I'm glad MS has publically acknowledge the unsureness of the Kinect 

[rrhuntington]

0:19 and onwards in this video shows how the Kinect can do much more than the trash you think it should be scrapped for. And this is 360 KINECT! Extremely poor execution a few years ago doesn't mean give up years later.

[Axilus Prime]

It does have a lot of potential, but I think it's impractical for gaming. I think they should switch their Kinect funding to creating a virtual reality game system. That would be cool.

[Pbrabbit]

It interests me quite a bit that Microsoft is willing to have another company come in to help them with the Kinect. The Kinect is a great piece of video games, but it is not that great in my opinion. 

[BerriesBoo]

There is one worse... Far worse...

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NEVER AGAIN!

 

Good news to hear that MS wants to improve the Kinect, I think in the right situations it could be useful, but me personally, I don't like using Kinect. It's preference, but GG on microsoft for assisting those who enjoy it.

I had that game, but I took it back to Gamestop.

[Ennye]

I think you should take the kinect as a device which is mostly used for local multiplayer with friends (possibly when drunk)

 

Just as the wii is supposed to be with mario party and ssb. The only problems is there are no such games, except the standard sports, rivals, etc.

[Twinreaper]

If the right team were to be chosen, they could literally game change the way we play games.  In the past, 3rd party teams and developers have used the first Kinect to implement MOCAP capturing to create animations for characters at home.  If the right team came in, they could develop the applications and support to allow the Kinect to be used for things like FPS's games of 3rd person games like GoW with pretty good interconnective activity.

 

Imagine how cool it would be to actually be able to play Halo using your own body movements and a Wii style accessory that acted as the weapon?  If it was done right with the hardware/software end, it would actually work pretty well.  Look at games like Duck Hunt, and Area 51 that used Lightguns?  The same method could really be applied to this.

[Caboose The Ace]

^

 

I disagree I think it would be, gimmicky.

 

Sure it would fun for the first hour but soon it would get boring and so the Kinect collects dust.

 

Who wants to do all that when you could just sit down with a controller in your hands?

 

[Twinreaper]

Video games in and of itselves are gimmicky. Thqts the point of them. Immerssion into game would be increased if you had to actually aim with something other than a controller and mouse. By your reasoning then vr, would be a gimmick then also.

[Ash]

The day when VR games become a thing, gaming will be amazing.

 

But this is that bumpy part of the road towards that. Kinect isn't great in my opinion, but it's better than no progress towards the future of gaming.

[Twinreaper]

I think Kinect has a lot of potential.  The hard part is, finding the right people to bring new ideas and ways to use Kinect.  Even for the PC platform, a small amount of people such as myself actually have the Kinect SDK and use it.

[Ennye]

Currently I am doing a minor (other study for 5 months, it's part of my education) in Virtual reality. I came to the conclusion that a lot is possible with VR. Training people, preparing people for sitiuations which are too expensive to simulate IRL. But VR still has a long way to go, to simulate the correct feelings and react to the persons movement etc. You can say it is a gimmick, but I hope that it will become something huge in the future.

 

Right now I work with an oculus almost daily, trying things, creating a usefull program for a project (virtual showroom for a big company in the Netherlands, since using a real one with static machines is a waste of the machines at the moment.) I also did something with the kinect 1.0 for windows. Not something big but I was able to see how it is being used, the API was not that complex.