Alex Kipman knows – he made it.
Every time you play with Kinect – out now in the US and on 10th November in the UK – it will see and it will learn. And in the same way a baby understands the world so, Kinect creator Alex Kipman believes, will his camera decipher you.
“The Kinect brain works in the same way as your brain, or my brain. Our brains are machines designed to essentially be this massive blob of signal to noise. We push away the noise and very quickly focus in on the signal,” Kipman explained to GamesIndustry.biz.
“Imagine we have a fictitious baby,” he went on. “She or he is zero years old, you show this baby a human and a lion, and you say, ‘Here baby, tell the difference between them.’ Turns out that a brand new baby cannot. Time goes by and now this baby has enough reference data, historical data, to be able to predict, next time you show it, the difference between the two.