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Avatar Kinect: Hide behind a digital mask when you make your horrible podcasts!

PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
edited October 2017 in Games and Technology
Look out, it is being released today...The Kinect! Previous to today, I have been playing rsclegacy.com

Lot of achievements, did a total of 8 out of 50 so far! (YAY)

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Do want to give this a try sometime, looks pretty neat.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    This seems pretty fun actually - I liked the eyebrow movement tracking feature.

    I hereby propose a weekly PA Youtube Forum with a set of new topics each week in the style of the McLaughlin group on PBS. It could be monumental.

  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I think my kinect is broken. it does that shitty "reposition camera down and never adjust back" whenever an initial check is done in a game. so i have to recalibrate every time when I start a game

    also it'd be nice if i knew how to manually adjust audio, because i am super mic boosted there

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  • Gaspode_TGaspode_T Registered User regular
    I guess it depends where you are placing your Kinect, I put mine under my TV and it works better than on top, when I put it on top it freaks out so much that it ends up falling off and I don't feel like welding it up there

    For sound, most mics have some sort of built in mechanism for eliminating noise so make sure you don't place it right next to your loudly humming 360

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    i downloaded the kinect fun labs, and this is the one app i didn't try. the others were fun enough distractions, but the 'kinect me' avatar maker had an extremely hard time giving me an accurate hair style.
    in any case this looks fun enough, i need to tell my horrible podcast members so we can do a horrible podcast this way!

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Local H Jay wrote:
    i downloaded the kinect fun labs, and this is the one app i didn't try. the others were fun enough distractions, but the 'kinect me' avatar maker had an extremely hard time giving me an accurate hair style.
    in any case this looks fun enough, i need to tell my horrible podcast members so we can do a horrible podcast this way!

    Stop looking like a girl.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    heeeey my hair is only girlish from the back and sides...
    just realized none of my fellow podcasters have this, who wants to be in a mooooovie with me

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Can it work two-player, or will it only track one person per console?

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    i think it does work two player. am i missing something? on my kinect fun labs it says this is 'coming soon'

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Becky and I would likely be right up for some group chat action.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    Strange, must be an area thing--mine is still "Coming soon" under Kinect Funlabs.

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    well shit. i will try deleting and redownloading fun labs real quick.

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Buh? I'll admit I've not tried loading it up yet, but I downloaded the thing from Add-Ons last night. You're saying that when you load up Fun Labs, it's just showing as 'coming soon' rather than letting you launch it?

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    yes, it won't let me do anything but stare at it. i'm almost done downloading again, and it's taking a fairly long time, it may work once i have 'refreshed' it.

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    nope, didn't work. it's weird that i can see other people have used it, and even watch a video or two made with it, but not use it myself. lame.

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Weaksauce. Will see about setting up the camera tonight to test ours.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    http://marketplace.xbox.com/Product/Avatar-Kinect/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025848081a?cid=majornelson&partner=majornelson

    It's not a part of fun labs (wtf) you can search for it directly a-z on letter a, near the end. that's how I got it.

    and then when you use it directly from quickplay and leave you exit out into the fun labs wtfx2 combo

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    whaaaat
    okay well thanks for the link, grabbing it now

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    i made a sweet solo video to test it, but the site won't let me download it yet
    looks like the site is busier than they anticipated.

  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    Okay every time I try to run Kinect Fun Labs my xbox freezes. I've tried removing it and redownloading and it's the same problem. :(

  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    skip fun labs and just get avatar kinect?

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    i'm not positive but isn't the only way to launch avatar kinect through fun labs?

  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    it downloads and installs funlabs, but I always launch in jewel>quick launch and have never launched in fun labs itself

    not sure if doing that also launched fun labs first (which means it wouldn't help ura at all) because I can run fun labs just fine.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNDb3w4PG8

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    I need to get our Kinect set uppppppp.

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  • plufimplufim Dr Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    The Giantbomb guys need to be using this, like yesterday.

    Kinect Funlabs always runs super slow for me, I gave up on it pretty quick.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    You should drop the AA to 2x and maybe disable advanced texture filtering, those tend to hit performance hardest. Failing that, try defragging your boot sector and run a sysadmin checksum on the primary default buffers.

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  • Angel177Angel177 Registered User regular
    Local H Jay wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNDb3w4PG8

    BroCast is gonna get this right!?

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  • fragglefartfragglefart Registered User regular
    OK I just tried this and there was an update for Funlabs.

    Funlabs doesn't seem to work at all now, freezes everytime I try to load it.

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