20 years from now, I like to think Kinect will have advanced to the point that it’ll be able to serve us drinks and listen, absent-mindedly buffing a glass, as we unburden ourselves of our various emotional, sexual and financial problems. Perhaps that’ll happen while the Xbox One is still on sale.
The console’s included sensors are backed by a set of fancy-dan algorithms that will become more and more used to your voice and physical presence over time, cue improvements to recognition and responsiveness. Spend a few minutes each day talking to your Kinect, allowing it to soak up your personality, and a few months from now, perhaps you won’t need that tedious old husband, wife, girlfriend and/or boyfriend. Here are a few particular control phrases Kinect fanciers might want to commit to memory, based on our time with pre-release builds of various games and last week’s Xbox One event in London.
