We’ve been told before how the new Kinect is so precise that it can pick up changes in your heart rate and even the slightest movements can be picked up. So with this in mind Cara Ellison, of the Guardian, put the question to Microsoft whether or not the system could pick up whether you were aroused or not?
Well Nick Burton of Microsoft was on hand to reply and apparently while the Kinect may be exceptionally precise, the one thing it cannot do is pick up temperature changes of the person it is tracking. However what it can do is pick up changes in colour using its RGB ability and when you get aroused you start to blush, whether you like it or not.
So while this isn’t something Microsoft is working on quite yet it is technically possible to measure changes in a person’s arousal state. Now obviously this is the key because if you are aroused before playing then it wouldn’t know.
Imagine the possibilities though if people started really utilising these incredible abilities of the Kinect. So you are playing Grand Theft Auto V and you enter a strip joint and the Kinect realises you are getting more aroused when facing a certain special lady, the game can then dynamically start altering all the other female characters in the game to appeal more to you as a person.
So when you go on a mission later in the game to save a lady she will be altered to match your chosen fantasy without you even realising that it has happened. Even better is that if the Kinect realises you are more aroused by the male dancers then it can alter the game to play into that perspective finally putting to an end the idea that only women need saving and that all strip joints only have female strippers.
Whether anyone will take advantage of these sorts of abilities still awaits to be seen but even thinking about the possibilities of what Kinect 2.0 can bring to the table excites me… no not that way.
Back to the original article Cara had a great idea for a mini game called Arousal Chicken. The game starts with you and 5 of your friends, Kinect can follow 6 people, and then differing pictures are shown and when the Kinect realises you are aroused it notifies everyone and you are out. The last one to be aroused is out.
Sounds like an awesome drunken party game, so let’s give it a go.
Round 1
Everyone needs a little bit of class in their lives
Round 2
After class how about we all leave for some fun in the sun?
Round 3
After that hard work out on the beach it’s time to head to bed.
Round 4
If you haven’t lost yet then surely this is more your thing?
Round 5
Yeah if you got this far you either have no arousal ability or you’re just lying… game over.
Now let’s be honest here, of those of you who prefer the female form how many made it past round 2? For you lot who prefer males you didn’t get past Round 4 did you?
Last Updated: November 21, 2013
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 11:45
*Raises hand for Round 2*
Ultimo_Cleric N7
November 21, 2013 at 12:12
Yip…
Johan du Preez
November 21, 2013 at 12:36
Im conflicted between round 1 and 2, can I go two rounds or must you chose one?
Scruff304
November 21, 2013 at 12:22
I’m so happy that is only your hand you are raising…
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 12:27
Technically he’s only raised one hand…
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 12:29
😉
joniegub586
November 21, 2013 at 20:23
my gf’s uncle just got a stunning Mercedes CLS-Class Sedan by
working part-time off of a macbook… more http://www.Bay35.co?
Devourer of Small Bunnies
November 21, 2013 at 11:46
Fuck. Welp. No more 40 inch porn for me.
Edit: There are about 18 puns in that one sentence alone #winning
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 11:46
I wonder about all these features, what are they NOT telling you?
Airborne
November 21, 2013 at 11:47
Round 4 – Mood killer!!!!
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 11:48
I disagree, if the mood were disgust then yes, it won’t kill my disgust mood
Airborne
November 21, 2013 at 11:50
Have to agree there…
Nick
November 21, 2013 at 12:23
You gents are not very secure in your sexualities are you? 😀
Airborne
November 21, 2013 at 12:27
We are… thats why the mood gets torpedoed, so to speak…
ToshZA
November 21, 2013 at 14:17
You like being torpedoed, don’t lie. :3
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 11:49
I got stuck at the header image. Dramatic eyes FTW!
Unavengedavo(aka. MadeYouLook)
November 21, 2013 at 11:59
I also got stuck there…
Rock789
November 21, 2013 at 12:19
There’s an article after the header? Where?! Those eyes…
Martin du preez
November 21, 2013 at 11:49
It sees your willy
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 11:56
NO WAY am I clicking your link after that comment
Martin du preez
November 21, 2013 at 11:58
It’s SFW. Promise
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 12:11
This will make George RR Martin happy.
Wiener, floppy wiener, wiener party…
Nick
November 21, 2013 at 12:24
You know GRRM doesn’t do the TV show right?
ALKi1234
November 21, 2013 at 11:52
Thanks allot Gavin….i like men now!!
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 11:53
Round 2, play! This is going to be an interesting few years for the NSA, I mean, gaming.
Johan du Preez
November 21, 2013 at 12:09
I cant wrap it around my head that people is actually comfortable that MS is monitoring them all the time.
Being a Systems Admin myself I know what technical guy’s is like and get up to. I know some US MS techies as well and they can be much worse.
Basically you are allowing a “perv” to watch you all the time. Trust me the technical people working on maintaining this systems will abuse it. MS management wont maybe but I can say with 100% certainty that the techies will abuse that kind of power.
I will also not be surprised that the NSA put in some keywords in so that if you say something like “I hate obama” they you will get a tick next to your name and go on the list. Seeming how they already data mine the entire world and spy on them this is most likely a reality. Its been proven that MS does conform to the prism system that the NSA use already with all their services, it doesnt take rocket science to know that they will be using it in the Xbox as well.
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 13:08
Exactly man. They cannot give a 100%, and I BET you it’s in the T&C’s!
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 13:14
That’s why I’ve always preferred T&A.
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 13:20
And also explains your more recent surgery 😉
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 13:27
Don’t be sexist. I can have a breast reduction if I damn well please. It’s my body.
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 13:35
It was the only reason we invited you to the get togethers 🙁
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 13:37
I’m not a piece of meat for you to ogle over. I have a mind
Devourer of Small Bunnies
November 21, 2013 at 13:30
smooth ^^,
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 13:20
really? Love how that isn’t made very publicly away!
Weanerdog
November 21, 2013 at 11:56
Round 3
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 11:56
lol @ alt text on the guy pic.
Azure
November 21, 2013 at 12:36
Number 4 😀 Yummm
Blackhawk
November 21, 2013 at 14:20
Round 3 got me… So beautiful!
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 21, 2013 at 15:05
I’m aroused by this… a PS4 riding an XBONE HARD!!! (Insert grunting sounds)
http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/19/PS4vsXBOXONE_01_610x436.jpg
Matt
November 21, 2013 at 20:32
Sucks for Bronies.
Hammersteyn
November 22, 2013 at 07:17
I didn’t even make it to Round 1. The header already flipped all my switches.