Kinect May Have Issues with Dark-Skinned Users

[Minus_i7]

Does seem to tell us something about Microsoft's employee base. At least in QA, anyway. I mean, you'd think they'd at least have a black guy nearby...

 

[dtemple]

Wait, so in low light, it doesn't recognize white people? I'm going to complain about that now.

 

[spectrewind]

Hehe, is there a physical counterpart to this in referencing a service pack prior to upgrading an OS? This would seem to echo to that.

Early adopters of this product are the real beta testers?

 

[Guest]

Well, at least when the robot apocalypse arrives, black guys won't have anything to worry about 😛

 

[welshmousepk]

One more to the white man.

How does it feel black dudes?

xD

this is pretty funny, but you can guarantee people will get offended by it. But then, people are idiots.

 

[victorintelr]

This didn't only happen with kinect, also it happened with some HP cameras:
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

 

[r3t4rd]

"Foreshadowing" - waiting for the ACLU, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton to come into the main plot of this story. *grabs popcorn, sits back, and watches*....

 

[alyoshka]

LMAO...............I always knew......... it's not just the Kinect........

 

[Guest]

No the article has got it wrong, it's a deliberate security feature which is intended to deter thieves.

 

[glassice]

sorry for ethnic people

 

[back_by_demand]

KKKinect?

 

[Collie147]

It's fixed!!! But it's funny that it was delayed because of something as simple as skin pigmentation, apparently it worked with Lamps though, so when some of the testers said it didnt work with them, they joked saying to put a lampshade on your head. Imagine being the person who had to go up to microsoft management and tell them why Kinect had to be delayed.

 

[LePhuronn]

User-created content comes to Kinect - Microsoft call it Kinetic Kontent Kreator

 

[aleh1811]

Regardless of accusations of racisms (which would be unjustified) It'd be pretty annoying to buy a device and find out it doesn't work simply because of some given characteristic of your body, race related or not. It's just a waste of money, and a turn down.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]aleh1811[/nom]Regardless of accusations of racisms (which would be unjustified) It'd be pretty annoying to buy a device and find out it doesn't work simply because of some given characteristic of your body, race related or not. It's just a waste of money, and a turn down.[/citation]
You mean like if Michael J Fox bought one and every time his Parkinson's goes off he fudges a game?

 

[steelbox]

A little bit to dark humour, but funny actually.

 

[nebun]

i guess that next time Microsoft needs to higher some black people to help them test the system

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]aleh1811[/nom]Regardless of accusations of racisms (which would be unjustified) It'd be pretty annoying to buy a device and find out it doesn't work simply because of some given characteristic of your body, race related or not. It's just a waste of money, and a turn down.[/citation]

you can allays return it...problem solved

 

[LongLiveRock1974]

Yeah..I remember Wanda and her lazy eye...lol

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]Outdated? Really? What device do you use that has facial recognition and full body motion detection? Yeah, I thought so.[/citation]

A computer and a webcam noob. All I would need is a software, but I dont see the point.

Keep you KKKinect.