It’ll also pick up on when we’re angered, as well as calculate where we are facing. Pitch and volume of voice and facial characteristics will reveal our emotional states apparently.
Of course this is all rumour and the source might have gotten their info from the Microsoft water cooler gang, so be sure to keep yourself sceptical. USB is slowing down Kinect right now.
The future iteration of the motion camera will be better connected to Xbox hardware, which allows for these huge advancements. ”It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor and straight to the main RAM and ask, what do you want to do with it?” said a source.
A lot of people are expecting a major unveiling of the next Xbox hardware next year, with a release of the new platform in 2013/14. Sony looks set to be late to the party, again, given their poor financials.