Screens of the Xbox 360′s Kinect dashboard have surfaced, giving gamers the world over time to practice saying, “Xbox – Netflix.”
Sporting a layout that is undeniably similar to the Wii Dashboard (coincidence?), the Kinect Dashboard appears vastly less cluttered than the current 360 dashboard.
As the instruction on one of the images states, “if you see it, just say it.” Kinect responds to voice commands for maximum ease of control. Of course, as demonstrated during Microsoft’s E3 press event, such commands seem to require the spoken preface “Xbox.”
Voice control aside, the layout of the Kinect Dashboard is primarily designed to support Kinect’s Minority Report-like gestural navigation control. The large, clean “buttons” on the dash board are, no doubt, significantly easier to manipulate than the endlessly scrolling scrolling menus and sub menus (and sub sub menus) of the current 360 dashboard.
Kinect’s gestural navigation and voice control (not to mention the nifty “wave to sign in” feature) are, for me, among the most interesting features of the unit. They may be enough to recommend the system, provided Microsoft can deliver Kinect for a reasonable price.
As for the Kinect Dashboard, based on appearance alone, it looks to be a significant improvement over the current version. It would be great if Microsoft offered all 360 owners the option to update to this layout, no matter which control method they are using.
What do you think of the Kinect Dashboard? Are you picking up Kinect?
Source: Gameaxis
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I still miss the original dashboard. The one before the soulless avatars came along.
Wonderful, a new and improved way for gamers to be even more lazy! “Xbox! Pizza Hut!”
Kinect is not going to be cheap but it's just sooo cool. It's a revolution. I'm onboard.
Kinect is not going to be cheap but it's just sooo cool. It's a revolution. I'm onboard.
Kinect is not going to be cheap but it's just sooo cool. It's a revolution. I'm onboard.
It makes perfect sense for how the Kinect operates. For what they had to change, not bad at all. I like it!
Kinect is just about the coolest thing ever invented. I'm all in. The hub is exactly what is needed for the 360 to be used by everyone in the family. The current dashboard is too cluttered and spread out for most people in my family. Being able to launch services with just your voice or hand gestures will make the Xbox much more popular around here.
I’d just like to remind everyone that Minority Report was a really crappy movie.
No netflix available WTF