Re: Hyperbole aplenty
Project Natal, aka Kinect was another one.
Microsoft released a load of demos ranging from plausible all the way up to outright bullshit lies. The worst was "Milo", a virtual boy who you could talk to through Kinect. It merely implied that Kinect had natural language processing, facial recognition, mood recognition and AI.
None of which was true. Turns out it was all faked. Even many of the "live" demos were choreographed and turned out to be fake.
When Kinect eventually turned up it did so in an emasculated form that could barely register exagerated arm flailing motions with any accuracy. Unsurprisingly it sold well from the built-up hype and then sank like a stone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
