Xbox One's 'Forza Horizon 2' Will Feature A Kinect-Enhanced AI Assistant

[Dietrichw]

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Forza Horizon 2 will use the device, according to the game’s creative director, Ralph Fulton, speaking to the Examiner.

 

“We’re still really excited about including Kinect. It offers opportunities we wouldn’t normally otherwise have. We don’t currently have it plugged in to demonstrate today, but Kinect will be involved with a feature called ANNA. She is your digital personal assistant and navigation in the game. She is also very intelligent and will suggest things to do in the game and give you a recap when you return to the games. She will also alert you when friends are online.”

 

The items he lists are more about ANNA talking to you, rather than you talking to her, but I assume if she’s “Kinect-enhanced” the system works both ways, and you can tell her to do this or that through voice commands

 

....... really?

[Guest Kloaked]

Can I tell ANNA to make me a sandwich?

[AlexGoesHigh]

meh, that's almost useless, kinect is only good when games are made to be played with it but as a extra it plains sucks

[Levent]

inb4 30 fps announcement

[menendez1293]

Can I tell ANNA to make me a sandwich?

Only if you say Sudo first  :lol:

[Sauron]

Can I tell ANNA to make me a sandwich?

check my signature

[Sauron]

YAY! More prerendered Pagani huayras that look nothing like they will in game!

[Guest Kloaked]

Only if you say Sudo first  :lol:

 

 

check my signature

 

LOLOLOL

[Rassilon]

Neat. That Kinect gps thing in for a horizon 1 was pretty good

[Derangel]

At least they're not calling it DrivAnna or something stupid like that.

[Misanthrope]

The word "kinect" should never be next to the word "enhanced" since it does the complete opposite.

[Victorious Secret]

The word "kinect" should never be next to the word "enhanced" since it does the complete opposite.

 

Mass Effect with Kinect controls was very intuitive and worked well, so yes; it can enhance the experience when they don't half ass the integration. 

[CornOnJacob]

inb4 30 fps announcement

@ 792.54p, but with "exactly the same settings as the PC." Really! We just hit the "port" button and everything worked perfectly because this console is so powerful!

 

I know it's an exclusive for the XBone. 

[Razarza]

inb4 30 fps announcement

@ 792.54p, but with "exactly the same settings as the PC." Really! We just hit the "port" button and everything worked perfectly because this console is so powerful!

 

I know it's an exclusive for the XBone. 

 

 

It has already been announced to be 1080p30fps, Forza 5 was 60fps. They did the same with the first Horizon, it was 30fps while Forza 4 was 60fps.

[Logan2012]

Oooh Huayra.