Peripherals I know you've all been waiting for XTion Pro

Well it's here.



Can I play BF3 with it?

http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Motion_Sensor/Xtion_PRO/

 

That's the kinetic for the PC I doubt you can play BF3 but it would be great. I would love what they had on the gadget show, playing BF3 on that would be a dream

Edit: people read the tags for this thread

 

It's one of those gadgets I've never seen announced. Just happened to go to Asus looking at the Xonar range and it popped up. Kind or reminds me of the Razer products that never really take off. Brainwave controller etc. Of course we know this is Asus equivalent of Kinect but surely if it was good Asus would have been promoting it across all the game sites?

 

im not quite sure about why it hasnt been promoted, wheres Bindi when you need him

 

I haven't been waiting for it, it's yet another stupid motion control device. At least on a PC it can actually be used for marginally useful things, like a coolish touch based operating system but really it's just a mildly amusing toy that would probably sit on your shelf indefinitely after the first hour of playing with it.

 

Bindi is obviously ashamed about it's existence.

Of course it is. The only true motion controller is the one I'm building in my bedroom. That one comes with porn gesture recognition.

 

As long as it comes with a force feedback codpiece then I'll buy it

 

Basically no countries sales could find a retailer wanting to pick it up because it's unproven on PC. We tried a $20k promotion to get devs interested last year and we got some good entries but after this interest died, and then Microsoft basically announced Kinect for PC. Remember most of what you see is interesting also comes from news outlets - you have to spend CASH to get advertising effective to the same level, and not many editors seemed to really give 2 shits about it when tablets and new CPUs or graphics are the staple diet of tech fans.

I read they were looking at putting it in laptops, but I haven't heard anything internally (I don't work in notebook team though).

Is Kinect on PC out yet? This is basically the exact same hardware.

 

Bindi did you guys ever make that laptop external GPU?

 

Nope. MSI tried one too I remember reporting here. Ultimately the PCI-Express cable was too fragile to maintain a good signal quality, that's why ThunderBolt requires controllers within the cable plugs itself.

 

Shame, it would've had a market given that the largest bottleneck in most laptops is the GPU.

 

I'd have gotten one, but until TB there just wasn't enough bandwidth for it to be practical. Wasn't the fastest external I/O speed before USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt Firewire 800? eSata doesn't count because it's storage only. But yeah, FW 800 is just dreadfully slow for GPU throughput. I don't think I would see much improvement even if the external GPU was, say, a GTX 460 compared to my 9600m GT due to horrible bandwidth. Now that TB is here though, I'm just waiting for someone to do a good and proper expansion GPU, or maybe just a PCIe x16 2.0 chassis. Shame I was one revision too early for the TB MacBook Pros

 

Bahahhahahaha.

 

IIRC ExpressPort (which is now dead I think) was actually capable as it was PCI-E 2.0 X1(or X4) I think. Now while it would still be a bottleneck, it was still an incredible jump nonetheless. Plus people have modded expressport GPUs in themselves.

 

Ah crum I forgot about express port! Yeah it's a shame it died it was incredibly useful.