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BrokenKnees posted:I'm still not going to pay $150 to yell at my tv to avoid button presses in Skyrim or Mass Effect 3, but if they made a dumbed down version that was just voice controls Roman fucked around with this message at Jan 12, 2013 around 03:37 |
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Lifespan posted:If you ever experience that, it means you need to run the Kinect tuner again. Mishearing something said in a conversation can definitely happen, but the technology should ignore any sound coming from the Xbox itself. I have replaced my surround sound since the last time I ran the tuner, so this wold make sense. The instructions say: Set the volume to the highest that you normally use to play games or watch TV. Thanks!
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 07:17 |
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Roman posted:They already have, it's called a "headset mic" but it's not enabled to work with voice commands in any games for some silly reason.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 12:34 |
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Roman posted:They already have, it's called a "headset mic" but it's not enabled to work with voice commands in any games for some silly reason. Because that's actually bullshit and there's a lot more that goes into the technology than that. Which incidentally is why the voice commands in Binary Domain are so lovely (and often hilarious since it assumes you are saying gently caress 90% of the time).
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 13:54 |
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All the extra work that went into the Kinect microphone is related to positioning your voice in 3D space and filtering out the room echoes, none of which is necessary for a headset mic. "Better with Kinect" voice commands being limited to Kinect are purely the result of the contract the developer agreed to when they took Microsoft's money.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 20:23 |
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I'm going to redownload all of my Rock Band songs, but am going to keep them on a separate USB drive that I can unplug when not in use. That way my console doesn't get bogged down with checking licenses every time I start up or quit to dashboard. Is there a way to change my default storage device to the USB stick so that I can just set everything to download there? Otherwise i'll have to transfer everything to my hard drive, then copy everything to USB.
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| # ? Jan 13, 2013 03:36 |
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Just remove the harddrive 
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| # ? Jan 13, 2013 04:13 |
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Chasiubao posted:Just remove the harddrive  Thanks for the tip!
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| # ? Jan 13, 2013 04:23 |
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pseudorandom name posted:All the extra work that went into the Kinect microphone is related to positioning your voice in 3D space and filtering out the room echoes, none of which is necessary for a headset mic. "Better with Kinect" voice commands being limited to Kinect are purely the result of the contract the developer agreed to when they took Microsoft's money.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:01 |
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FuSchnick posted:You are wrong. But you seem to think that your made-up explanation is actually a known fact. Why is that? Because multiple games have shipped with fully functional voice commands via the controller headset and there's literally no reason a Mass Effect 3 or Skyrim couldn't do the same thing except the suitcase full of money Microsoft sent EA and Bethesda's way.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:05 |
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pseudorandom name posted:Because multiple games have shipped with fully functional voice commands via the controller headset and there's literally no reason a Mass Effect 3 or Skyrim couldn't do the same thing except the suitcase full of money Microsoft sent EA and Bethesda's way. Wouldn't it be kind of dumb to be wearing a headset during Skyrim in the first place? Or the SP portion of ME3? I don't have a horse in this race, I'm just curious.
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EC posted:Wouldn't it be kind of dumb to be wearing a headset during Skyrim in the first place? Or the SP portion of ME3? It would also be dumb to have a Kinect.
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pseudorandom name posted:Because multiple games have shipped with fully functional voice commands via the controller headset and there's literally no reason a Mass Effect 3 or Skyrim couldn't do the same thing except the suitcase full of money Microsoft sent EA and Bethesda's way. Which multiple games are these? I'm genuinely curious since I don't remember any prior to the Kinect being launched.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:20 |
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Chasiubao posted:Which multiple games are these? I'm genuinely curious since I don't remember any prior to the Kinect being launched. Rainbow Six: Vegas was one of them.
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Chasiubao posted:Which multiple games are these? I'm genuinely curious since I don't remember any prior to the Kinect being launched. There's a Tom Clancy game that exclusively used voice commands. I don't know if it worked though.
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pseudorandom name posted:Because multiple games have shipped with fully functional voice commands via the controller headset and there's literally no reason a Mass Effect 3 or Skyrim couldn't do the same thing except the suitcase full of money Microsoft sent EA and Bethesda's way. Yup, games like Endwar work great with a headset. The developer also had to develop their own engine for processing voice commands not limited to the incredibly difficult task of ignoring noise, audio from the game itself, and translating speech despite there being a wide array of timbre, volume, and accents. Or ME3 and Skyrim can hook in to native tools included free to 360 developers that does not require developing any extra voice processing and works with the low resource overhead the Kinect provides.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:23 |
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The only even remotely playable one I remember was Endwar, but that only had like 8 commands total. Off the top of my head, Binary Domain, Star Trek: Bridge Commander, and Lifeline were all kind of shitheaps in terms of voice recognition. efb on Endwar, but man. That was a hell of a game right there.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:23 |
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Which regions are Live Points codes restricted to? (read: would I be able to purchase points off Amazon to use them in Norway?)
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 19:59 |
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Points are restricted to their home region. The only exception is that some US points work in Canada.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 20:10 |
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Chasiubao posted:Which multiple games are these? I'm genuinely curious since I don't remember any prior to the Kinect being launched. efb: Endwar
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 20:53 |
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ZeeBoi posted:
Seeing as how pretty much every LCD monitor since 2006 has had DVI I would like to point out that you will get much better picture quality using a DVI->HDMI adapter or cable and going HDMI on the xbox to DVI on the monitor. Using the VGA cable I found the colors to be consistently extremely washed out. As for getting audio via while doing this, you conveniently answer that in the next question of your FAQ.
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pseudorandom name posted:Because multiple games have shipped with fully functional voice commands via the controller headset and there's literally no reason a Mass Effect 3 or Skyrim couldn't do the same thing except the suitcase full of money Microsoft sent EA and Bethesda's way. There is a lot of processing involved in speech recognition. For most developers, it isn't worth the effort, especially when there is a wide range of possible devices to deal with (360s accept standardized headphone/mic devices, not all of which are created equal). Kinect has multiple microphones which provide a few nice features, but the important one for voice recognition is noise cancellation (which requires calibration). There is a whole pipeline of software built into Kinect and the Kinect libraries that handles this, plus a lot of the other heavy-lifting of voice recognition. Kinect hardware is also standardized, so the mics (and their positions) are a known constant. Recognition is a sensitive enough area that you can't make a very good "one engine fits all microphone setups" engine for games to use without sacrificing a ton of accuracy in the process. So yeah, it is *possible* to use headset mics, but the Kinect pipeline is tuned specifically for Kinect hardware. Making it work with headsets would be a ton more work, with much less payoff. Nothing stops devs from rolling their own (again, see Binary Domain), but it usually doesn't end up working well. While on the other hand, you can use the Kinect libraries, and get better than average voice recognition with very little effort (seriously, the XDK libraries for Kinect are pretty low effort compared to most game development tasks). And on top of that, the Kinect pipeline requires a lot less CPU cycles than doing your own recognition, because some of the work is made easier by the Kinect hardware.
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TheGreySpectre posted:Seeing as how pretty much every LCD monitor since 2006 has had DVI I would like to point out that you will get much better picture quality using a DVI->HDMI adapter or cable and going HDMI on the xbox to DVI on the monitor. Using the VGA cable I found the colors to be consistently extremely washed out. 5 years later, it is not really a significant factor anymore... the 360 has HDMI out of the box and supports a lot of very common resolutions, and most monitors in 2013 are much more flexible than 2008.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 21:11 |
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I haven't had netflix open on my xbox for a while, so I downloaded the most recent update today and I think it's hosed itself up.  I managed to watch about ten minutes of a film before it hit a wall and just buffered for about five minutes, then played ten seconds, then buffered, then played, etc. I tried putting on a different program, and it tried to buffer, got halfway, and crashed. Is the update screwy or something?
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 21:41 |
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Anyone else having issues with Live? I can "sign in" but I'm not actually connected. The service page says everything is up and running, though. I've rebooted the console and router.
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| # ? Jan 15, 2013 21:58 |
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EC posted:Anyone else having issues with Live? I can "sign in" but I'm not actually connected. The service page says everything is up and running, though. I've rebooted the console and router.  vThe other night netflix was so pixelated I gave up watching. coyo7e fucked around with this message at Jan 15, 2013 around 23:44 |
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How well do USB hubs work with stuff like headsets/controllers? Do I need a powered one or can I use an unpowered one?
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 01:22 |
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Definitely powered. Get one with a power switch. Not sure how they are with the 360
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 01:48 |
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Does anyone use their xbox for Verizon FiOS TV? If you do... does it work? Mine used to, but since they updated the app it doesn't detect me as a subscriber and verizon honestly has no idea what I'm talking about when I call in about it. Oh well, probably not worth it anyway.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 02:04 |
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Vlad the Retailer posted:Which regions are Live Points codes restricted to? They use Paypal, and the site looks shady as all hell, but it's legit. The EU cards will work in Norway 
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 06:37 |
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Lord Wexia posted:Does anyone use their xbox for Verizon FiOS TV? If you do... does it work? Mine used to, but since they updated the app it doesn't detect me as a subscriber and verizon honestly has no idea what I'm talking about when I call in about it. Mine does, but it's so limited I never use it. I'm not sure what's the point of an app that only has 20 channels out of 1000.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 06:46 |
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Neo Helbeast posted:Mine does, but it's so limited I never use it. I'm not sure what's the point of an app that only has 20 channels out of 1000. That actually seems cool considering 98% of cable channels are filled with unwatchable poo poo anyway.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 06:47 |
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Which 20 channels? I just went over it in my head and couldn't come up with 20 that I regularly watch, so that could be a pretty great deal (if I could get Fios).
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gooby on rails posted:Which 20 channels? I just went over it in my head and couldn't come up with 20 that I regularly watch, so that could be a pretty great deal (if I could get Fios). CNN HL BBC WN I.D. MILTY MIL HIS H2 Okxygen Style OWN DIY G4 TVGN MTV2 MTVjams VH1SOUL Centric TCM HALMRK TVLAND NICKTOONS TEENNICK NICK Jr. CARTOON BOOM Disney Jr. Sprout TV ONE Galavisn USA HD TNT HD TBS HD FX HD Spike HD ESPN NEWS HD CNN HD CNBC HD MSNBC HD FOXBUS HD FoxNews HD Disc HD NGC HD SCI HD HIS HD ANPL HD NG WILDHD TLC HD Lifetm HD We tv HD FOOD HD HGTV HD Travel HD SCI FI HD A&E HD TruTV HD Bravo HD BBCA HD COMEDY HD E! HD ABCFAM HD MTV HD VH1 HD CMT HD AMC HD IFC HD NICK HD BET HD Disney HD DXD HD The HubHD EPIX HD HBO HD HBO2 HD MAX HD
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I was considering selling my 360 S 250GB and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to pull the hard drive and DBAN it. Well, that was stupid. I was under the (false) impression that the 360 would reconfigure it after a wipe, since it's an official drive, but it looks like the 360 will only format partitions, not recreate the necessary partitions once they're gone. The console no longer lists the drive in the Storage menu. I've searched around and found guides for using WD Scorpios with hacked firmware, and the instructions mention it recreating partitions (0/2/3), but I'm not sure what will happen if I restore this firmware on an official 360 hard drive. The instructions are all several years old too, and I purchased the 360 in December 2011, so I'm leery of trying this since the firmware might be outdated... I'm not sure what my options are at this point. Any suggestions?
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 15:54 |
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For some reason, I can't send messages to players I'm not friends with. I have no idea why. A long while back (like, a year ago) my Xbox had the "Family Settings" thing on it. It was a complicated process that involved a long call to XBL support but I had it entirely removed. What the hell? Why can't I send poorly worded racial epithets and brag about my very specific sexual conquests?
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Bourbon posted:I was considering selling my 360 S 250GB and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to pull the hard drive and DBAN it. Well, that was stupid. I was under the (false) impression that the 360 would reconfigure it after a wipe, since it's an official drive, but it looks like the 360 will only format partitions, not recreate the necessary partitions once they're gone. The console no longer lists the drive in the Storage menu. It will work, the only difference is some identifier number will change to one every other hacked drive uses and theoretically Microsoft could block it in the future. They probably won't, though. It's been years now. Keep in mind that for backwards compatibility to work, that needs to be created as a second partition. I don't know if it's the default with that tool since I've never used it.
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torjus posted:I've used these guys a couple of times, and they always deliver the codes within minutes: http://www.cheapxboxlivecodes.com/ The first (and so far the only) time I ordered a code from them, they sent me one that had already been used. I was pissed off because I assumed that there would be no way to prove that I wasn't the one who used it and they would just tell me to gently caress off if I asked for my money back. To my surprise their customer support responded to my email within a day and, once I contacted Xbox live customer support like they asked, they gave me a refund within 24 hours. My friend has ordered several codes from them with no problems at all, so I guess I just had some really bad luck. At least their customer support was helpful. Red Crown posted:For some reason, I can't send messages to players I'm not friends with. I have no idea why. A long while back (like, a year ago) my Xbox had the "Family Settings" thing on it. It was a complicated process that involved a long call to XBL support but I had it entirely removed. What the hell? Why can't I send poorly worded racial epithets and brag about my very specific sexual conquests? Chances are that nobody can send you any messages either unless they're on your friends list. Changing this shouldn't require a call to XBL support though. Have you checked your privacy settings? go to settings -> Privacy -> change settings and see if it's set to "Child" or something.
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| # ? Jan 16, 2013 20:49 |
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I probably asked this before but I'll be damned if I can remember the answer: When you pay to switch your Xbox gamertag, does the old gamertag go back into the available pool? I have two gamertags. Martytoof and Martytoof CND. I created Martytoof when I lived in the States. When I moved to Canada I had to create a new one because up until now Microsoft wouldn't let you transition GTs between regions. I've played with Martytoof CND for a long time now so I'd rather use that one, but I prefer the Martytoof name. If I change Martytoof to Martytoof USA, can I switch Martytoof CND to Martytoof later? MARTYTOOF! 
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I don't think so I think if you change it away its still considered taken for some time.
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