Official Xbox One Kinect Sensor

I purchased an xbox one last year without the Kinect sensor as I wasn't sure I would use it enough to justify the extra value. I have now purchased one used, but in 'very good' condition which looked brand new for less than £50 - I would highly recommend doing this if the seller is 'fulfilled by Amazon' for no fuss returns. This is a bit of a bargain as it still retails new for over £120 online and £150 in the shops. You don't need to play games with Kinect to get the value out of it. The voice control for general tasks is very good and makes many task much faster. I love being able to turn my xbox on/off by voice as I enter the room and once set up, your kinect turns your TV on/off as well and you can use your voice to adjust the volume which is very handy. It is also very useful for Skype or recording game clips as you simply say "xbox record that". Picture this: without leaving your bed with just your voice you can turn on your xbox, turn on the TV, browse the dashboard and apps, start watching TV, adjust the volume just so and pause/fast forward etc whatever you are watching - all without the need of your TV or xbox remotes. My advice is give it a go, you will be pleasantly surprised.

An non-essential part of Xbox One's infrastructure that has been dumped to give the console a more attractive price point verses the PS4. But it has also been booted because it is an alienating feature for the non-techie amongst our families. I have been inclined to teach and encourage the device to recognise my voice and gesture - but my partner chuckles at my attempts and reaches for the remote more often than not - and in some respects, I almost have to agree with her. Ignoring the vast distance between you and the device it recommends (by now everybody is familiar with the vast, uncluttered white room that Microsoft expects us to entertain this product in) to say it struggles to find your waving hand, or hear your voice over anything other than complete silence, is an understatement. Gestures are so exaggerated they are painful to execute (pushing icons requires such an over-the-top motion that I could be shoving someone forcefully in the back with less effort). And the voice controls require a louder, clearer tone of voice than even elderly relatives at Xmas require. I'm sure there is a learning curve for both me and the machine here, and I can't mark it down for attempting to bridge the gap between man and machine - but it's not perfect, and it is easy to see why the control is never far from reach (or the highly useful SmartGlass app). Kids find it fun, and our daughter believes it genuinely is interacting with her when it announces it's greeting when she enters the room, and for that novelty it does deceive you that "Xbox ON" is genuinely futuristic. But I concede that the marketing videos show a highly idealised version of what's actually possible in day-to-day life. And, of course, my review is independent of individual games' use of its technology - which I'm sure has as many hits as it does misses. Don't be afraid to buy the console on the cheap without this - you're not missing out on the overall functionality the Xbox One has to offer. But if you're up for a bit of novelty, and the potential to amaze every once in a while, it is certainly a clever piece of kit to add to the entertainment set up in your life.

Great product, super fast delivery and 1 very happy son! Santa delivered an Xbox one for my son and he bought this himself with the money out of his coin sorter when it was on offer........simply because he wanted to turn his console on and off with voice control! It's been a great added extra and comes in handy for other things too, such as Skype! It's a great way (like the wii etc) for the younger kids to still be active when playing which means they're exercising without even knowing it! It came with a dance game (code only) which gave us 10 songs free (you can purchase more) and it has a tutorial and exercise mode. It is great and a 10 minute cardio session a day is a fun way to shed some pounds! Overall the voice control could possibly be a bit better but for our family this has been totally worth the money!

I haven't tried yet the product (kinect) because i am waiting for the adapter i need for using it. The low rating is about the really bad conditions of the product's transfer.Normaly at this kind of product should be written "fragile".Insteed of when the product arrived on me it was "playing" inside the box without any kind of interior protection.Just a kinect sensor inside a big box!The next days i will have the opportunity to try if it works.I wish there is not need to request for my money back.

I suppose it would be great if it worked! READ UP ON KINECT FAILURES BEFORE YOU BUY ONE OF THESE... HALF THE WORLD IS SAYING ITS AN XBOX ONE PROBLEM, AND THE OTHER HALF ARE SAYING ITS A KINECT PROBLEM. I DONT THINK ANYONE KNOWS WHY THEY ARE FAILING AFTER HOURS OF USE. My brand new xbox one won't recognise the kinect, no lights on the kinect! Nothing! I wish I had looked at all the problems people have had online before I bought the dam thing, I will be sending the thing back to amazon and carry on as normal with no kinect, just like I have been doing. I'll be doing all my talking on the ps4 camera/microphone, it's much better and worked straight out of the box with no problems. I'll be keeping the Xbox one for half hearted microsoft exclusive games😎 All serious gaming will be done on the ps4..

The Kinect gets a bad rap but I thought I would give it a go as I used to like the Wii so I'm used to those type of games . This was easy to set up just a case of plug it into the back of your Xbox one but if you have the Xbox one S which I do you do need to buy the separate adapter unfortunately. it all looks neat and you can't see any of the wires. so one is plugged in you need to synchronize it with your movements and then you are ready to go I only have one game at the moment and it works really well the movements all precise to your actions. But the icing on the cake is Cortana because she can control everything when I walk in the room I can tell her to turn on my Xbox and because I have sky sets up through my Xbox I can control the TV channel by voice which is so lazy but excellent and I love it and that's why I would recommend the Kinect ,it is very responsive and I just say watch BBC one or watch sky sports one or any other channel and it will automatically change the channel for me and if I want to turn the volume up it can do that too it can controls everything in your devices from the TV to a sound bar etc.

Apart from the fact that I wanted to record clips from my xbox one gameplay I would not have bought the kinect, however that said the unit is solid and feels more sturdy than the original xbox 360 kinect sensor and does not have the motor that the original kinect had. Both voice and face recognition is of a good quality, the hand gestures feel awkward and so therefore using voice or sticking to pad controls is a far easier option . I haven't used it for game-play apart from shouting things like "you're crazy" in Dead Rising 3, which leaves you feeling a little stupid when there are people around, and probably makes the neighbors wonder what's going on next door. Overall I can't see it being a huge addition to your console at this moment in time and would like to see more applications for what is essentially just another dust gatherer.

Nice little addition to Xbox set up - use it regularly (faster than picking up the remote / and/or controller). Don't use it for games, just mainly for jumping between apps and snapping features/making calls and controlling the v (off on - volume control - mute - pause - quickly switching to different channels etc). Only downside is my panasonic needs a longer turn on signal to turn the tv on - I still have to do this manually which is a bit annoying - still, it does turn my entire set up off on voice command which is nice. Wouldn't say its worth the full £150 asking price, but for the £40 I paid for it its an absolute steal for such an advanced piece of tech. More a media feature than a gaming eccessory though, so if your using the xbox as a pure going machine (I don't - its my media centre - use it to watch tv and netflix/now tv/you tube through etc - although I am partial to forza and I'm looking forward to barking a few formation changes at it during a game of fifa...)