This is retarded.

Same conspiracy theorists say the same shit about any electronic device. Big brother can turn on cell phone cameras and mics and spy on you. Big brother can do the same to your laptop or pc. Big brother uses gps to track you down and use OnStar to snoop on convorsations.



Go wear a tinfoil hat with the rest of the fruit loops. I highly doubt BB has nothing better to do than spy on some gamer in his undies eating cheetos.

So you've copied the same conspiricy theory that's been going around about radio, TV, walkmans, phones, laptops (with inbuilt webcaps) blah blah blah.

99.9999999% of people are not tin-foil-hat enough to care about this conspiracy theory

the other 0.000000001% can put sticktape over the camera lens and instantly thwart the evil Microsoft plot to invade your living room with spies.

doesn't mean you HAVE to use it...they bundle it because for the best xbox one experience they say to use the kinect. But I'm almost positive that if you don't plug the kinect in that you can still press a power button to turn on the xbox one and do what you normally do with a controller...

I always think my eyes are used as a camera for spying, Maybe they put something in my brain to do that.

THIS, and the won't ONLY use it for advertisements directed at you. Apple had a screen a cpl years ago...every other pixel was a camera.
Don't be the least bit surprised to one day see yourself on YouTube fapping lol

George Orwell predicted "Big Brother" would be "forced" on us.....never in his wildest imagination, did he assume they WE would pay for the privilege of having the state to spy on us ^^

What is the model number on that screen?

I'm not going to tin foil hat and assume the government is using it to spy on the gaming populace.

however I do think they will use it to further monetize everything.

- split screen/co-op titles? charge the user a fee for every DIFFERENT person that plays with them
- netflix? see a licensing thing pop up in the future that turns off netflix if more than the allowed amount are in view
- pay per view sports? just like netflix, but charge the user the exact same fee they paid for every additional viewer


the new kinect is supposed to much much more "advanced" and able to distinguish individuals.

This video goes quite well with this thread

Okay here's the NON tin-foil-hat version of what COULD ACTUALLY happen.

Kinnect could anonymously (e.g. without ever sending any video or photo footage) your estimated age and gender, and target ads on netflix accordingly. Google already do this via other methods of gather your info.

As this wouldn't actually involve anyone ever seeing your kinect cam, it MIGHT be legal.

They may also use it for some form of DRM. e.g. a game is licensed to a person, not a console. This has ups and downs, it would mean you could play all your games on other people's consoles, but it would also destroy the used game market (not that I care, but most do)

OPTIONAL - OPT IN (perhaps paid) use of kinnect's footage for advertising purposes. The information a kinnect cam could offer advertisers is too good to pass up. If it's already in every living room, all they need is your permission, so I image we'll see advertising agencies at least try some form of opt in, paid agreement for them to be able to view your kinnect footage as you watch TV, play games, view ads. Absolutely priceless information for advertisers. This would likely be annonymouse, in that footage would come back with something like a silhouetted rendering so all you could see is the people, where they are sitting, what their eyes are looking at (very easy and possible with kinnect) - all the information they NEED without anything they don't.

Who knows what it will be used for, but what ever it is, it will be eased in. M$ Cannot risk the launch of their console by over-stepping the public's limits in regards to privacy (perceived or real privacy). Accordingly I expect little to no 'invasive' features at release, however there's too much money in the advertising idea alone for this discussion to not already have been had @ M$'s xbox department.

This post was edited by IIFOXII on May 26 2013 01:05am