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GameSpot: Problems with Kinect and Dark-Skinned Users

By pete_gallagher

A story on GameSpot details the problems two dark-skinned site employees had with Microsoft's Kinect, the just-released, controller-free add-on for the Xbox 360.

According to the site, the two employees in question had problems with Kinect's facial recognition abilities. One GameSpoter's face was recognized 'inconsistently,' while when it came to the face of the other staffer, Kinect was 'never able to properly identify the other despite repeated calibration attempts.'

To make it even more confounding, Kinect had 'no problems' recognizing the face of a third dark-skinned employee. No hurdles were reported with Kinect's skeletal tracking system for any of the employees, which is good, as it is the primary means of controlling on-screen action.

The problem may or may not be that big of a deal however, as GameSpot wrote: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).