Anybody else getting frustrated as heck with the kinect experience?

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Ok so i've had my xbox one now since launch. Since then I've disconnected my xbox one from my tv source because it was driving my wife nuts. She's no techie and couldn't stand using it because the kinect voice actions would randomly pop up and even kick her out of her tv shows by switching apps. This was all being triggered by the audio on the tv. It also happens to us all the time in Netflix as well. Our kinect camera is on top of our tv and no where near a speaker. 

I was afraid this might happen and am getting ready to shut off the voice actions altogether. Last year I watched the microsoft e3 press conference on my xbox 360 when i had the kinect first gen camera hooked up, and I had to turn off the voice commands just to get through the video. Every time someone said xbox it would go haywire. I was afraid they wouldn't get it right this time around and sure enough it actually seems worse for me. While watching tv or netflix the xbox select screen pops up constantly when nowhere in the show did anyone say xbox. It's frustrating to say the least.

I was just curious if anyone else is having issues. Maybe my camera is defective.

 
Nope, near flawless for me. The only issue i've had so far is with the youtube app bringing up the kinect commands..but that seems to be a known issue with that app so I just go to youtube on internet explorer and it works perfect.

Did you calibrate it right? Or, have you moved the kinect around since you first calibrated? Usually the issues you're having are coming from people that didn't have the volume high enough during the setup so it wasn't blocking out the sound correctly. Or if you moved the camera since the initial setup then you need to recalibrate it.

 
Hmmm. I may have never calibrated it. That may be my issue. When i received my xbox one I logged in to it on my work pc monitor, bought my games and let them download for 24 hours then i brought it home and set it up. I may have missed calibrating the kinect camera. I thought I did the kinect setup but I'll have to double check and report my findings. I don't remember it doing any audio tests. 

 
I actually sold my Kinect 2.0 on ebay for $100.

Was never going to use it, and since its no longer required, I figured someone will buy it...

 
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screwkick said:
I actually sold my Kinect 2.0 on ebay for $100.

Was never going to use it, and since its no longer required, I figured someone will buy it...
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what idiot paid 100 bucks for that thing lol.

anyway i have no problems with my kinect but im only like 7 feet from kinect so that might be why.

 
I think when you calibrate, it helps immensely. I've chatted using the Kinect and my TV was on a pretty high volume, yet the other people said they could hear very little of the TV. It does a great job isolating the sound around it from the TV noise.

 
How do you calibrate it?  Is it just that thing with the floor and the sounds that play where you turn the volume up?

Also, anybody having trouble with auto sign-in junk.  My nephew who is about my height put his profile on my system and it thinks I am him.  Lots of snafus with it thinking my controller is not mine and taking me back to the title screen.  I think I will turn the kinect sign in off unless I can fix it.

 
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Just calibrated it. No luck for me. Mine still sucks at speech recognition. I have a family of four and all of us have issues. Still giving me issues on netflix as well. Gonna disable it. Maybe its broken. I'll give ms a call over xmas break.

The auto sign in feature is stupid as well. Every time my dog walks in front of the tv it signs in my kid. While he may be a little shaggy and short he's a far cry from looking like our husky puppy. Looks like I'm gonna have to disable that as well.
 
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I calibrated it with the volume way up and this has helped the voice recognition a ton, but I had to turn my nephew's profile off of auto sign in and it is working fine now.

 
I haven't had many problems with kinect and I didn't even calibrate mine yet. I've only had to repeat a few things twice. The Auto sign in feature has worked well too, and I have a dog and a wife who walk infront of the TV.

 
Superstar said:
I haven't had many problems with kinect and I didn't even calibrate mine yet. I've only had to repeat a few things twice. The Auto sign in feature has worked well too, and I have a dog and a wife who walk infront of the TV.
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That's pretty cool high end technology that the Kinect Sensor can differentiate between you and a dog.

 
GBAstar said:
That's pretty cool high end technology that the Kinect Sensor can differentiate between you and a dog.
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Yeah it is.

Stop trolling all over CAG about the Xbox One. Even your arguments in other threads about the PS4 crushing in sales is nonsense. They sold 100,000 more units than XBox One in the same number of days.

And before you bring up the "other markets" haven't launched yet, that's the number of consoles they had to sell. Who cares where they sold them.

Xbox One is going to be a great success, you'll just have to deal with it.
 
MattZack said:
I calibrated it with the volume way up and this has helped the voice recognition a ton, but I had to turn my nephew's profile off of auto sign in and it is working fine now.
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How do you turn other profiles off of auto sign in? My Kinect keeps mixing me up for my son. It's weird; when I first turn it on, it recognizes me just fine, and always signs me in as myself to start with, but at some point, it will think I'm him and sign him in. It's even done that when I'm alone in the room, sitting on the couch.

 
I have yet to use gestures, but am very happy with the voice commands. There are times, usually after the One has been on for most of the day that the voice controls do not work as quickly as they have done on other days. But overall, it's been a good experience.

 
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