Kinect HACKED! - Trailer Tuesday! - Video Games Awesome!

[jrctattoo]

no offense, but you all need to stop talking so damn much..first off, your on to a good thing showing off cool tech stuff, but all the added "egghead" comments aren't needed, these people are doing far more then you will ever do..so just get rid of the other three useless people , get a new couch, and maybe you'll get some viewers!!!

[jmannunez]

@jrctattoo You are a moron. An uneducated useless moron.

[master3243]

@jrctattoo 1st fuck you

2nd watch the new videos not from 2 years ago

[TheLolpan45]

Ahhhh...The Years before the F-rage..... |:¬|

[Wintergore]

THAT IS BETTER THEN 3D !!!!!!!!!!!

[DFxWoLvEz]

@Wintergore 5d right there

[Wintergore]

@DFxWoLvEz now your thinking with portals

[DFxWoLvEz]

@Wintergore ok lol then 3.5d?

[Wintergore]

fit one on the other side too and create a 3d room !

[1996gameking]

so 3d can be recorded

[BADam07]

Johnny Lee actually worked on the Kinect. It's sad it still haven't reached the awesomeness of his Wii mods

[Narga1111]

I also thought porn as the first use :O

[mrg2theman]

he's here all night folks. LOL

[ins0mniakds]

Yeah, I don't think they realize that the reason it stopped after this was because Johnny went to work for Microsoft and was a part of the design team that invented the Kinect. So apparently Microsoft loved what he was doing too... the only problem is that Microsoft hasn't released Kinect libraries yet. We already LOVE XNA and there are a TON of independent games for it. The MOMENT it supports the Kinect, you'll see a TON of cool games based on this.

[Shodex4]

It doesn't look like a dolphin!

[rubberwoody]

time crisis

[gareler]

it would eb great if someone hacked 2 kinect cameras and made a complete 3d

[DasLama69]

@gareler ummm... they have? but you need three for "complete 3D"

[DasLama69]

@gareler 

[xxYetterxx]

I like your CBC shirt

[TheBoogerHumper]

I want the CBC shirt

[1Nekit1]

asian porn will never be the same

[Shakespeare1612]

You may not realize it but your first two videos are related. Johny Chung Lee, the star of your second video went to work for Microsoft, and was a key player in inventing / testing kinects, which is the technology used in your first video. So? did he do anything with his head tracking idea? ah.... yeah.

[KeannaRoar]

These guys are a little... dumb if they describe the video the way they did- "Just boring egg head stuff" and then he describes it TOTALLY INACCURATELY. :< Maybe he OUGHT TO ACTUALLY pay attention to what is being said and done.

[adds102]

This is from engadget..."In this time of economic hardship, it warms the heart just to hear that someone's found any job. But when our main man Johnny Chung Lee lands a position on Microsoft's Project Natal team, it's high fives and handshakes all around"

[HiTEC7]

is this show for stupid people can't we see the original video instead?!!! morons!

[adds102]

yeah google it

[wellguesswhatIthink]

this was a pretty trailerless tuesday

[adds102]

Don't they know that asian guy helped develop kinect?

[wellguesswhatIthink]

@adds102 you sure?

[adds102]

@wellguesswhatIthink yeah google it 

[wellguesswhatIthink]

@adds102 I'm probably gonna need his name for that

[plasticPlaystation]

@adds102 Really?

[octupus6]

I hope they don't use this in the future for 1 reason: They're going to charge for it even if it's just something you can rig together at home :B

[Donatello97]

I'm sure when the Wii2 hits we'll be seeing some crazy 3D stuff such as this. ;D

[Falcor43]

woah! that it is some pretty cool stuff!

[6669poncho]

Why do stupid asses with Canadian accents have to say "oot" all the time ??? It's "aoot" you idiot ...

[chaosmaster07]

What great advances in porn technology the future brings! But, there seriously isn't better hardware to use for that than the Wii's?

[farfromsubtle]

@LUNAPOLICE We have a money back guarantee on all videos that do not reach the level of awesomeness that you have come to expect from free content on YouTube! Please write us at Our House, Couch for a full refund!

[SquirtOutADump]

@farfromsubtle I like you Fraser. You're my kinda guy.

[SakuraAvalon]

@farfromsubtle This comment is win.

[TheAmusingHeckler]

I found the Wii video from 2007 has a stronger and fresher approach to playing around with the motion capture than the kinect video from this week,hopefully nintendo was watching a few years ago,btw you guys rule show that Canadian Pride!!!

[TheGamingPhilosopher]

CBC is nothing but liberal media bias. Just joking. :)

[Chubbajawa]

or CBC in english canada...

[Chubbajawa]

Radio Canada t-shirt!

[robvh2]

After making those videos, Johnny Lee was actually hired by Microsoft to work on Project Natal (now Kinect).

The virtual 3D head tracking effect is actually used in the bundled Rallyball game. It doesn't have much impact though because the tiles are so far away and spaced together. The bouncing balls have much greater depth separation but the effect is lost because the balls are moving so quickly. It's too bad you can't slo-mo or pause the game while keeping the head tracking active.

[LordTyphoon]

Oh yeah, some canadianity there

CBC t-shirt..

[flibitijibibo]

In case you guys didn't know: Johnny Lee actually went to go work on Kinect after getting his PhD. Funny how the two actually ARE related.

[untellableEpiphany]

whoops... looks like a developer is already on it (sort of). Watch vid below. Kinect tracks your position and the camera's position changes based on your position relative to the kinect. This isn't exactly the same effect that the Lee guy achieved with the Wiimote but it's the same principle with a more "user-friendly" squishyness added. Again, what Lee did with the wiimote is achievable with Kinect. youtube.com/watch?v=90HFQPVVnd­E

head/body tracking functionality starts at 2:22

[WatanukiProductions]

@untellableEpiphany Seeing as the connect accomplishes this by a completely different method in a completely different price range and that motion tracking is the kinect's entire intended function instead of an inventive application of pre-existing hardware for a function not originally intended. I mean if the end is all that matters than the developers of the absolutely fantastic arcade game Police 911 beat these guys to the punch by nine years.

[WatanukiProductions]

@untellableEpiphany Moreover, the real appeal here is what this sort of tracking can do as a component of an already solid game. It does not make for much of a game on its own, this is where the Wii's already established functionality comes in and the Kinect fails for this particular endeavor.

Mind you, I am not claiming superiority, the Kinect is a damn fine piece of tech that has functionality that the Wii simply doesn't, and frankly I love variety.

[robvh2]

@untellableEpiphany Your link is no good.

[untellableEpiphany]

Didn't read comments yet but... did anyone mention that what the guy did with the wiimote can be done with the Kinect? The kinect acts as both the "wiimote" sensor under (over) the tv and instead of ir emmiters on your hat, the kinect is blasting you with ir and reading the reflections to determine the position of your head (and the rest of your body). The guy in the second vid now works for MS - I have no doubt MS is working on games/apps that utilize this kind of 3D with Kinect.

[rj00001]

They did make a game using the wii mote mod, it was called boom blox.

[OmegaConker]

man thats a sweet cbc shirt you got there.

[Rephay11]

After I've seen Boonehams comment I was thinking to myself, how does the wii look on a 3DTV

[WatanukiProductions]

Part 1: 4:18 I disagree, this could be implemented in a standard Wii shooter without being on rails. Just by having the avatar emulate the players stance. That is, when you are standing upright directly in front of the TV your avatar would be in a typical standing position and from there you alter your stance and your avatar emulates your deviance from that position. Allowing you to duck in one direction or another, and peak over or lean out of cover as sheepishly or boldly as you desire.

[WatanukiProductions]

Part 2: However what I'd really like to see is this implemented with a game like "Amnesia: The Dark Descent"(Google it, and watch the first video you see). As you presumably just saw, this game is all about inspiring fear via tension and immersion.  To the benefit of the later your characters interactions with the world/items/puzzles are handled by their click/drag physics engine, a concept they even extend to the doors(a decision which I was initially very skeptical of).

[WatanukiProductions]

Part 3: However it soon became clear that my doubts were unwarranted. The interactions were immersive and intuitive. Not to mention that the manual opening of doors I had expected to be frustrating and tedious was actually one of my favorite aspects of the game. In any other game you might feel apprehensive about what is on the other side of a door but you only need the courage to press a button but in Amnesia you actually need the will to pull it open.

[WatanukiProductions]

Part 4: I often found myself creaking through doors at a snails pace or violently throwing them open because the game was so far under my skin. Not to mention when you're fleeing from a monster you've barely glimpsed and try to barrel through a door only to realize which side the hinges are on and how badly you just cocked up.

[WatanukiProductions]

Part 5: Which is why I was disappointed when peaking around corners was accomplished with the push of a key. It seems to me that this style of gameplay already meshes perfectly with the capabilities of the Wii Motion Plus and implementing this sort of player tracking only makes the deal sweater. Such a game could be legendary... though there seems an equal possibility that running with the same concept the developers could cock it up completely.

[Boonehams]

My theory is that Nintendo is working on this for their next Wii, so that they can do 3D without the use of 3D TVs.

[brisulph]

Fraser rocking the oldschool CBC logo... awesome.

[hoosherdaddy]

the konnect video was pretty kickass. we gonna get some avg in all konnect video?

[DJGamer]

I think the Kinnect could use head tracking for a regular FPS-the developer would just need to find a way to work out the controls so that it doesn't feel like the head tracking is "fighting" with what you're doing with the control pad (you'd obviously need that since for instance you obviously couldn't turn around without looking away from the screen). Basically, it could be a more-or-less standard FPS using head-tracking on the Kinect to create that pseudo-3D look.

[DJGamer]

I think the best way to do this might be to restrict the right analog stick (I think that's the one traditionally used for "looking") to being used just to turn-so only moving it left or right will do anything and the rest wold be controlled via head-tracking. A bit of fine-tuning beyond that would obviously be useful but that's the basic jist of how an FPS could be adapted to use Kinect. Other features could be "hand signals" for a squad-based FPS.

[BROCK06]

at 4:10 , that reminds me of an arcade fps game i played called police 911.

[roosen5]

please hit Chad in the face for me ? :)

[modplanman]

The wii head tracking was apparently going to be used in the game Boom Blox, but was eventually cut for some reason.

[scarecrow2k6]

In case you guys didn't know Johnny Lee worked on the project Natal (Kinect).

[honeyjars]

0:51 Is that an old CBC shirt Fraser? Wow that's awesome, I want one now :D

[rowsdower50]

Isn't the 3ds technology the same as the wii hack there?

[madvideogamer]

@rowsdower50 well actually no, the camera doesn't "follow" the face, the 3ds gives to seperates pictures to each eye creating a 3d effect, this one is mono-eye friendly 3d

[23Cyrax23]

HACK THE KINECT!!!! Nice Chet!

[PickPikmin]

Trailer Tuesday! DERP!

[BlueDragonOfUNA]

I really don't get how the guy works that in the second video.

[DedBassPlayer]

you guys should do another live show before ben leaves........

[MakubekuUrashima]

a few minutes afther this video his server crashed cuz suddendly a LOT of ppl checked his page

[Mathieuismissing]

heyyy what's up with the cbc shirt? :P

[Mangamatix]

the thing with the wii remote.... thats how the 3ds its going to be

[eaglescomedy2]

Yay! Thank you for bringing it back! P.S. Ben will be missed!

[grendelee]

HACK THE PLANET!

[hassmann2000]

its Wednesday...

[doom1killer123]

@hassmann2000 in your country its 05-99-2889 and in our country ITS TOUSDAY!!!

[Hwee101]

@doom1killer123 In england/europe it's wednesday.

[hassmann2000]

@doom1killer123 "Tuesday"...

-_-

[LAL4LIFE1]

@hassmann2000 no its not lol

[hassmann2000]

@LAL4LIFE1 yes it is rofl

[kingmedabe]

You guys are Canadian! I couldn't hear the accent until this episode where you said a bunch of stuff with the letter O.

[jakobogg]

@kingmedabe their canadian? that makes 5 o my 5 fav utubers canadian, YAY

[PowerlineWC]

I got to try out the Kinect at the Mall of America. There was a display there over the Summer where you could demo it. It was pretty neat, but some of what I'd played needed work (Kinect Adventures and some bowling game were all I tried. The bowling game worked well, as you could even do "jack around" throws and it would pick it up still) You even got a little pass and were SUPPOSED to be able to obtain videos of you playing once they were uploaded (which to this day I cannot get to work).

[rothsothy]

LOL @ 3:28 I like the reaction there!

[fundude365]

Hah! It's Wednesday for me!

[gamedude72]

I feel so unique. I am the 302nd viewer and no one else.

[SonofMrPeanut]

YES! I've been wanting to see this, but I haven't had the time to look. Now I don't have to! ^_^

[Stonezorz]

Damn, when the camera perspective changed with the Kinect thing I said "wow" out loud, that's pretty damn impressive!

[Sener]

Video Games Awesome is SOOO much better than Awesome Video Games! SOOO much better :D :D (sarcasm end)

[SJmapler]

YOU ARE NOT FRASER YOU HAVE THE WRONG HAT D:

also great show

[Jumpman3]

That head tracking Johnny Lee guy got picked up by Microsoft. I think he helped work on the kinect.

[MrLazyEyes]

Nice Ol' Timey CBC Shirt.

[glingproductions]

CBC shirt! ;-P

[giacomand]

Nintendo are doing what Lee did to the 3DS I believe.

[forrestgumby]

I think the term Fraser was trying to use is "Augmented Reality"

[RaccoonboyShaun]

Awesome as always

[kombajndosalatek]

boooooring

[Meatytheburrito]

lol deacon didn't say a word!

[Aaronthereal1]

@Meatytheburrito He said porn.

[cheddarisbeatta]

Trailer tuesday is the best.

[noseriouslyguys]

I think Johnny Lee (2nd video) works at Microsoft now, right? When I saw the title for this video with a picture of Mr. Lee, I was like, "....why would he hack his own company's product...???"

[Penp4l]

TOTALLY FERST

[SteveKroekerTV]

oh and will there be a christmas avg???

[SteveKroekerTV]

luvvit

[TheJuggerking]

5 people will say first

[XileLordVids]

poop snakes