Kinect new feature (in the work) age detection!

[Chibibar]

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/kinect-may-act-xbox-360-viewing-police-parent

This is kinda "scary" that the system will continue to monitor the room and auto switch "channel" if inappropriate age person walks in.

what if a person is a midget? or a fat kid that looks like a midget?

Can I turn off this feature?

 

[GasBandit]

What if a user has funky bodily proportions, such as short childlike arms? GeekWire reported "Don't worry, there would be an override for someone with an administrator password, and no doubt there would be an option to disable the technology from the outset."

 

[Chibibar]

whoops. miss the last line.

 

[strawman]

There were vending machines in Japan that tried to sell things requiring adult approval using facial detection. Kids just started carrying around full page magazine images of adult heads.

This sort of system, while "neato, whiz-bang" technology, isn't practical at this point.

 

[Fun Size]

As it is, the Kinect can identify each user after a bit of fiddling with it, and with the password protection (which I trust way more than a best guess identification), I'm not sure what the point of this is honestly.

 

[bhamv3]

To try to capture the "won't somebody please think of the children" demographic, I guess.