Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sat, 25 May 2013 18:44:38 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 18:44:38 GMT Rev9 14 -14 -1 Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test This is incredible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/5d03332faa2c46dab04c9f8700532a68#5d03332faa2c46dab04c9f8700532a68 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:02:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/5d03332faa2c46dab04c9f8700532a68#5d03332faa2c46dab04c9f8700532a68 Zeo 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Zeo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test Yes, I saw it on TV last night.  Pretty impressive.

Herbie

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/e831b4abf60a4d319ce59f87008060e5#e831b4abf60a4d319ce59f87008060e5 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:47:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/e831b4abf60a4d319ce59f87008060e5#e831b4abf60a4d319ce59f87008060e5 Herbie Smith 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dr Herbie/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test Although the aiming pad, ambient, and only front projection are redundant. Especially the front projection is redundant because they can make it completely 360 degree similar to how Forza can do 3 screens, just need two more. Since we can have 360 degree view easily, the ambient is redundant. And the gun can have build-in wifi and accelerometer easy.

The moving floor is cool though. I am sure it is not natural feeling as I am sure we can feel the floor is moving based on the momentum. But, still better than nothing.

The virtual paint ball thing is awesome. Better to have direct input from game though. 

Should use Kinect for walking, running, turning, and jumping. The floor is only to move player back to center.

Well, based on what they have, it is still amazing. Just need polish.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/f5c556a81150427fab029f870082cf64#f5c556a81150427fab029f870082cf64 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/f5c556a81150427fab029f870082cf64#f5c556a81150427fab029f870082cf64 magicalclick 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/magicalclick/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test Awesome, though the game had better be good to warrant getting blasted with paintballs.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/9d8462dcaac34f979edd9f8700f0fc4f#9d8462dcaac34f979edd9f8700f0fc4f Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:37:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/9d8462dcaac34f979edd9f8700f0fc4f#9d8462dcaac34f979edd9f8700f0fc4f Scott 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/spivonious/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test Very cool.  I can't imagine how much pain I'd be in after an hour playing an FPS ... black and blue all over. Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/3513082f5745440890cf9f8701193341#3513082f5745440890cf9f8701193341 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:03:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/3513082f5745440890cf9f8701193341#3513082f5745440890cf9f8701193341 Richard Anthony Hein 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Richard.Hein/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test It's so awesome!

I'd want something a little less painful than a paintball gun shooting me, primarily since I suck at FPS games Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/7d6b3f7f194147c3a5e19f87013907d3#7d6b3f7f194147c3a5e19f87013907d3 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:59:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/7d6b3f7f194147c3a5e19f87013907d3#7d6b3f7f194147c3a5e19f87013907d3 Dan Fernandez 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test They bringing SAS guest to test their toy seemed to me especially cringeworthy. I wrote a long rant about how this simulator could be done properly, but then realized that for what it is the implementation is okay - it's a way to play BF3 and not a proper combat simulator. Still, the amount of faked enthusiasm and marketing pretence is at the same level as I've seen in shows like Space Cadets - the simulator is not that awesome, no need to jump up and down.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/184504f3839041c1ad6d9f88003b968c#184504f3839041c1ad6d9f88003b968c Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:36:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/184504f3839041c1ad6d9f88003b968c#184504f3839041c1ad6d9f88003b968c RoyalSchrubber 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/RoyalSchrubber/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test It looked pretty awesome to me.  There is a definitive difference between playing in a real life paintball type game and playing on a console.  This kind of blurs the edges a bit. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/83c9be3160fd4cad9d129f8800b0697e#83c9be3160fd4cad9d129f8800b0697e Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:42:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/83c9be3160fd4cad9d129f8800b0697e#83c9be3160fd4cad9d129f8800b0697e Ian Walker 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ian2/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test It's pretty cool, especially when you consider that they're basically just hacking together bits of existing kit to a standard PC game to get it working.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/229b20252cb94114a4599f8800cb1f66#229b20252cb94114a4599f8800cb1f66 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:19:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/229b20252cb94114a4599f8800cb1f66#229b20252cb94114a4599f8800cb1f66 AndyC 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/AndyC/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test @reply to post: (AndyC)  Yes, it was more of a 'mashup' than a custom build.  This was why they could only show the front half of the environment (the pre-release version of the game they had would only show the front view, I have no idea if the final version will enable surround views) and had to hack together a method to get the projectors to turn to match the users physical orientation and then hack the ambient lighting so that the lighting behind the player matched the mood of the screen.

I though the paintball guns were a bit over the top, but I guess they added to the tension for the player.

Herbie

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Is the wireframe they were showing part of the MSR Kinect SDK?

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, Bass wrote

That's awesome. They kind of thing should be more available (eg, in high end arcades?)

Is the wireframe they were showing part of the MSR Kinect SDK?

They demonstrated it on a MacBook Pro running OS X. Somehow I doubt that's official Microsoft code running there.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/65b638b37acf4b8a99529f8801320bc3#65b638b37acf4b8a99529f8801320bc3 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:34:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Best-use-of-a-Kinect-ever-Ultimate-Battlefield-3-Simulator-Build--Test/65b638b37acf4b8a99529f8801320bc3#65b638b37acf4b8a99529f8801320bc3 W3bbo 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/W3bbo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test

, W3bbo wrote

*snip*

They demonstrated it on a MacBook Pro running OS X. Somehow I doubt that's official Microsoft code running there.

Battlefield 3 runs on OSX?

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, cbae wrote

*snip*

Battlefield 3 runs on OSX?

The Kinect code could be running on a Mac and sends commands to a proxy input-interface on the Windows computer.

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