A lot of that can be chalked up to Xbox pushing it as a video gimmick and all dev presentations bring canned shit because incompetent devs forcing it in. If you get a dev kit version, you can fuck around with it and find that it has a lot of very expensive and detailed features that are honestly better suited at anything but Just Dance star wars edition
It was used as a cheap 3d camera because it was a cheap and readily available off the shelf product. Got used for everything from mocap to cheap 3d scanning. Did anything go into production with it? I doubt it, but for being an available product to use for getting something off the ground, proof of concept, or hobbyists on a budget it definitely worked, well enough that Microsoft was continuing to sell it by itself years later with Microsoft having provided an SDK and even continued developing the product into the "Azure Kinect DK" only having finally discontinued it a couple months ago https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/azure-kinect-dk/8pp5vxmd9nhq https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/21/23840327/microsoft-azure-kinect-developer-kit-discontinued
I'm not the guy who released the toaster telling people it was a slingshot, wrote an SDK so it can be used as a slingshot, or released software using it as a slingshot.
Sure but in this instance it was a 3d depth camera sold as a game controller by telling people it was a game controller, and then getting used as a 3d depth camera for everything else more successfully. That being said, it's not as if MS was the first to try some attempt at a motion control gimmick. Shit's been going on since the NES days with the powerpad and powerglove, even third party crap like the u-force. I think even the atari 2600 had some mind controller bullshit, Sega had the stupid Activator, there was that rock'n'roller, the waggle nonsense where you could tape a wii-mote to a ceiling fan and have it beat the tennis game, on and on.
Scotch.
I thought his wife only talked about wanting and being in a poly relationship and that she had once said "white males are boring" or something along those lines. Is this blackening that you speak of confirmed?
Safe to say, Jim never took any courses in business. And if he did, he failed them all.
I imagine Jim is the kind of person to never save back any of his income. He probably spends most of it on toys and other junk as soon as it comes in.
Well if he had became a national of the USA as well as the UK he would still be liable to pay both as you are taxed in the US as a citizens while you get taxed in the UK as a resident.
Pretty much. Most people have a threshold where they would eventually get a point where they earn more money than they can spend. Especially if you're older and have your habits locked in. Jim was thirty when he left Escapist and started making 10k a month, and by that point he should have had his expenses established. Instead, he saw all this money coming in, used it to buy boglins, and never stopped.
I get a feeling, that it's calm before the storm
Side on to that, does anyone happen to know how long you have to watch a video on YouTube for it to count as a view? I'm wondering if a percentage of Jim's views might be the result of people stumbling onto his content and sticking around just long enough to try and process the man-made horror beyond their comprehension.
The Kinect only failed because all the games for it were shit and didn't work. That might sound like saying 'I'm only wet because I fell in the pool' but my point is MS weren't dumb for trying to capitalise on the motion control bandwagon, and they weren't even dumb for trying to distinguish their product where Sony just copied Nintendo, it just didn't pan out because the tech wasn't suited for how they wanted to use it.
Clicking on a video still counts as a view, but YouTube’s monetization (last I checked) is more affected by how long you keep viewers watching, hence how video essays and let’s players came to dominate over animators.
