We got a kinect for Christmas and one day it just... Disappeared. Gone. Without a trace. And it never made sense to me. Until today. Bill Gates BROKE INTO MY HOUSE AND TOOK MY KINECT TO COVER UP HIS LIES.

“I am not a nerd” sounds like something a nerd would say

I feel like higher-ups genuinely thought it was possible and promised it to the public before ever consulting the dev team if it was even possible. I can imagine the horrified dev team seeing the E3 presentation and cursing at the screen.

even the pitch for milo is so strange. "Here, in this game you can ask a fake boy if he finished his homework!"

"The biggest lie of my childhood" Eddy, my guy, we all know the biggest lie of your childhood was the time D.A.R.E. promised laser tag and unlimited pizza.

Can't afford Miranda Cosgrove, let's just get Ariana Grande instead.

I know we didn’t know better back in 2009, but hearing that Peter Molyneux lied about something fills me with a truly profound sense of complete apathy

I played Kinect with my sister all the time, and it sucked but only because our parents didn't understand that walking in front of us while there was a game going on meant that the entire thing would break and sometimes we would have to restart the game.

Eddy: I am not a nerd. *"Remember When Eddy Lied to Us?"*

Every time I run out of money I think about how much money I would have if I had never bought a Kinect.

My sister and I wanted a Wii for years (*all* of our friends had one) and somehow our parents translated this into “Surely they want an Xbox Kinect” even though we’d never even heard of it, and the way we found out we’d gotten it-at the end of the day on Christmas because it was too stuck behind the tree for us to see earlier-feels fitting. Also Kinectimals personally betrayed me by crashing and losing my save data on the second-to-last sub level on the final ice mountain and I have never forgiven Microsoft for it. I still don’t know how the game ends

I’m amazed that Microsoft never got sued for this

2 chicks on a raft going down a waterfall "We can go anywhere" WTF IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN

"and jump!" "yayy" "look at the water!" "we can go anywhere!" -very real dialogue from very real people

As a child I spent hours on these games and actually 'beat' Kinectimals. I think how it worked was once you explored enough areas with your animal buddy you got to like a mountain where you met a golden cub - I can't remember what animal it was. But anyways as a kid who wasn't allowed a pet, loved cats, and had a lot of time to kill, I greatly enjoyed it.

Dude I played Kinectables, and it was almost impossible to play the game. Like my entire family would play this game and no matter what we did we always failed the challenges and it was super frustrating because as kids you want to basically be friends with these animals and do the best with them, but it’s heart breaking when you can’t do the best for them and they literally get sad and depressed. The only time it actually worked was the app game, which was a lot better.

"You remember that time microsoft just lied to us" You gotta be more specific than that lol

you have to make "the wrongies" a yearly award show about the most wrong people/ takes of the year

The Kinect hardware was amazingly solid, companies like auto desk did some super cool stuff for it, but for gaming it was a gimmick for sure

I think the Billy Crystal thing was them trying to also appeal to the older demographic, which the Wii tapped into perfectly at that time. His comment about "not having to find the right buttons" really reads like that. I'll be honest, there is something to that concept if done right. I have the oculus quest now, and had my dad try golf +. He never plays video games, at least since he played Wii golf. He was doing better than me, right away. Kinect failed, obviously, but this general concept is finally becoming a reality with vr.

Were they seriously advertising that there was virtual pet human who you'd have to push to do their homework?

there's a boy in there?

The child actors delivery, saying «you like that? Yes you do, yes you do!» made me feel things. Anxiety, horror and uncanny dread, mostly.

To be fair to MS, the kinect was made of ground breaking tech. it was the first functioning and accurate point cloud tracking system, it could differentiate people in the same frame, even if they were partially occluded. it was blob tracking on steroids. i still see people use the kinect and point cloud tracking today and its been over 10 years. And on top of all that, they released an awesome SDK for the kinect making research a thousand times easier. i blame all of the lies and bullshit on peter molyneux and MS's marketing team for somehow dropping the ball on ground breaking tech that worked really well

Flashback time to when Kinect Adventures wouldn't start bc it thought a ladder in my room was a person who wouldn't play

The bit about Milo being trapped without friends sounds like a Black Mirror episode

"Lies." >Shows Peter Molyneux He knew what he was doing.

I only ever used my Kinect for Dance Central 1 through 3, but I used to really love playing it! Might be all that the Kinect was good for. 😅

currently standing outside microsoft hq with a sign that reads "free milo"

“tHErE wONt bE A dIStANcE bETweEN uPloADs” sure eddy. Your pulling a Microsoft on us.

17:20 bill gates i demand to speak to your manager lol

I can't express how devastating it is to learn that I'm older than Daddy Burback

Eddy: "I'm not a nerd" also Eddy: "I've invented a time machine"

Does anyone else remember the 'controversy' where people where saying that these could see through your clothes or was that a fever dream on my end?

They must have workshopped it and came out with a better kinect because a couple of my friends had them and we played just dance and some kind of Disney park adventure thing without a problem. In fact the only problem was that we wanted to play so often that the friends that owned them got tired of them and never wanted to play💀

8:46 fun fact about the Watch Dogs game, they did make the game that pretty on PC but at the last minute they decided to gimp the game to look closer to the xbox because they were worried with the console's launch it would make the console seem outdated by the time it was released, not to mention lengthen the loading times on consoles. so yea the e3 footage isn't edited, there's a mod that's a single line of code that brings back the fancier options.

I didn't realize Eddy was only a year older than me, he has such father energy I was sure he was older than that

Just a fun fact: the clown song you played is called “Entrance of the Gladiators” by Czech composer Julius Fučík for the Austro-Hungarian Army. It’s just one of my favorite classical music facts that this song that could only be for clowns is actually about Gladiators entering the arena where they’re about to die.

With AI voice and animation this is now actually possible.

I do remember an arcade cabinet Keisatsukan / Police 911 where it has a motion sensor, so you have to move your body to hide and peek on corners, sofa, cars. Pretty good game with pretty snappy motion sensor. My legs were jelly after playing the game, super fun !

Cool science fiction idea: Milo was actually sentient the entire time and has been planning his revenge for the last ten years.

When all this time you thought Eddy was “about your age” (27-ish) and you’re just now finding out he’s like 22 and you’re old :\

bro that one connect game where you controlled the puppet cowboy always worked and was even really good, still love that game

my siblings and i won an xbox kinect at an arcade in 2012 ish, and i got kinect adventures for it. i think what happened in the macys demo was that the environment was messing with it or the setup wasnt done correctly, because i played kinect adventures all through my childhood and its one of my most beloved memories. it wasn't perfect, and got weird at times, but never like what happened in that video

OMG I REMEMBER THIS There was this one video where this girl was trying to figure out what outfit to wear, she was video chatting with her friend and they had like this virtual closet that she could like “test out” her clothes virtually. That was the thing that got me the most hyped for this project...and then they just _didn’t_

Glad to see a new video on today: Wednesday, February 18, 2020

that throwback clip at the beginning brought up so many memories

The Raycon bit at the end id gold!

Not gonna lie, Kinect Adventures (Even though it wasn’t what it was told to be) was still one of the most fun childhood game memories I have, I remember playing it all the time and loving it.

"But I thought Bill Gates won? Nope, everyone was losing their FUcking mind over Wii Bowling"

Kinectamals and Kinect adventures were fire bro, I’m still in hs and seeing those games were kind of the first genuine nostalgia I’ve ever had

I remember a bunch of my friends having the xbox connect, but not as much as I remember all of us trying to play it once or twice, either getting bored or frustrated, and then playing minecraft on the xbox for the next like 6-7 hours

I literally didn’t remember any of this but as soon as connect animals came on it all came flooding back

UKposts: You can't advertise to kids because they don't know the difference. Microsoft: We'll do it anyway

This made feel old 😄 eddy was 12 when I was about 20 sleeping in my jeep

I remember seeing the kinect at innoventions at Disneyland and I was literally blown away

"Wednesday, February 18th, 2020" - Eddy Burback Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

One time I was looking in the value bin at GameStop and found Kinectimals selling for $0.

You are so good at the ads you make me want to buy Raycons. And I’m deaf I seriously considered for a minute to check out the website

i grew up with a 360, i still use it sometimes even though i havent touched the kinect in ages. i loved just dance and kinect adventures, and because i never saw E3, they were some of the coolest games of my childhood. i had to convince my boyfriend that the xbox ever even ran just dance since he only knows it on the switch. now, adventures is 50p in CeX. i miss being little, i miss thinking that disney kinect game was amazing. but i still have a kinect and a lot of memories

I'm having a mental breakdown You're telling me kinectimals and Kinect adventures came out 10 years ago!?

looks like a good setup for a podcast or a rotisserie chicken eating contest

I never had a Kinect, but my parents would take me to the Exchange on Base while they went shopping and I’d wander to the electronics section and play Kinect Adventures. I only have fond memories of it, but looking at all the interviews and everyone else’s experiences, I can’t help but laugh.

I love that his sponsors plugs are at the end of the video

The most interesting thing about all of this is that the Kinect tech did work, or at least the camera part of it did. The Kinect was actually the go to camera for a lot of robotics projects for a while because there wasn't much else out there that could map out a 3D space as well as it. The problem was that the 360 didn't have anywhere near the processing power to parse the data that the Kinect was reading, so compromises were made, reducing the fidelity of the 3D mapping, lowering the refresh rate, etc. resulting in games functioning horribly with it.

Shows how lazy my family is - everyone's talking about how their Kinect has disappeared while ours is collecting dust on our TV stand.

My family only used the Kinect for Just Dance, and half the time it wouldn’t track our movements lol

It’s so interesting that watching this for the first time this year: now that AI Voice Technology you talked about is possible

Remember when they had the “preview” commercials for the Kinect and one of them was a surgeon using it to change CAT scan views mid-surgery? That would have been disastrous if actually implemented anywhere

4:03 nothing makes me feel older than seeing a console from my childhood "adjusted for inflation"

I still love the kinect :( Kinect adventures was my jam and i still have photos in there from when i was so little

Eddy and Tony are the most Italian chicago names ever.

Microsoft: Who are you Eddy: You lied to me once. Microsoft: Do you have to slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Fun fact: Kinects are actually kind of useful for VR now because they can be used for a cheap (but kinda janky) full body tracking.

4:17 is a mood in case of the ps5 too

My Kinect is still on top of my TV. The week I bought it I also got a privacy cover to cover the camera, so essentially it's been sitting there with the camera covered up for years now. LOL Microsoft had me sold

in 2019 we raided area 51 in 2020 we're gonna raid microsoft to save milo

Wednesday, February 18th. Close enough.

Found this man in my YT feed under recommendations funny guy, hope he hits 1M subs

Kinect Adventures built my childhood. It worked great for me and it was amazing. Even more so than that was Kinect party, even though it scared me when I left the TV on and heard people chatting on the other side of the tv. I still play Kinect to this day and it's great.

You’re five years younger than me, but you look like you could be my dad.

Still can't belive Microsoft lied to Eddy, when he was in his prime of 12 pushing 13 Risky move

Remember when the Kinect was used as a ghost detecting plot point in one of the paranormal activity movies?

My best friends actually had the kinnect adventures and tbh we had an awesome time with it? We played it a lot with only downside being our parents being annoyed at our jumping in the living room until late in the evening

I feel like I'm the only one who has good memories with Kinect.

"In 2009, I was 12 going on 13." Holy shit I'm older than Eddy and haven't done shit with my life

I had a Kinect too. Kinect adventures was actually fun when it worked, it just didn’t work often

Thus freaked me out more than it did blow my mind and i was 9 thinking about what they could do with my information

“Mom can we get Icarly?” “We have Icarly at home.” Icarly at home: 12:00

I know that Milo clip was a lie because the Kinect can’t track you when you’re that close to it. With that being said playing Just Dance was much better on the Kinect compared to the Wii.

That skateboard game got me sooo excited and I'm happy I wasn't the only one to still remember it.

I remember having a lot of fun playing beach volleyball with the Kinect the strategy was just to move tho if you were moving in any way shape or form you hit it and if you weren’t moving you missed that’s how it worked 😂

"I was 12 going on 13... ya know, my prime." I'm DEAD.

Top 3 Eddy Burback trust issue moments: 1. Xbox Project Natal 2. D.A.R.E Laser Tag party 3. ???

you awakened a memory I had forgotten about. The only game I remember playing more than once with the connect was the wipeout game, and it wasn't even that good

10:49 I feel like this is the prologue to so many sci fi movies

Eddy told me to watch this or else he'd hit me with a belt

The second the phrase "Kinectimals" was said, so many repressed memories came roaring back

I had no clue about the skate game or the pet tiger stuff but I had a great time as a kid playing Dance Central with my family.

notice those Sony TVs in the interview about the programmer who worked for xbox.