Kinect May Have Issues with Dark-Skinned Users

[Sabre]

Gamespot article

GameSpot reports that while testing out Kinect, the system failed to identify two dark-skinned employees, while lighter-skinned employees were recognized immediately. However, the situation with Kinect's facial recognition isn't so black and white. GS's Brendan Sinclair writes that though system recognized one employee inconsistently and was never able to properly identify another despite repeated calibration attempts, it was able to recognize a third dark-skinned staff member. Though this could be put down to Kinect's facial recognition software just being dodgy as a whole, Sinclair reports lighter-skinned employees were consistently picked up on the first try.

You'd think that this would come out in beta testing...

[complacent]

if this is true and not an isolated issue, this is going to be horrible for the company.

damn straight it should have come out in beta testing.

[Libra Monkee]

[Sabre]

[thermatico]

Microsoft isn't one to learn from others mistakes.

http://www.time.com/time/business/artic ... 43,00.html

[chicken n waffles]