The Xbox One’s creepy monitoring feature might track how often you sit through commercials

[froggyboy604]

f you don’t want to be creeped out by the Xbox One Kinect sensor’s ability to track your every move in your living room, then don’t read about some of the ideas that Microsoft has been batting around for how to give viewers incentives to sit through commercials. Per Polygon, Microsoft filed a patent application back in 2011 that detailed how Kinect could watch viewers to make sure they’re sitting through commercials and then reward them with special “achievements” for watching a certain number of ads.

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Creepy, I don't like being watched while I watch TV. I bet the Kinect is also listening to what you are saying during commercials.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Privacy my ass, you know MS will sell this info out of commercial makers.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

Yah, I'm not sure I want One... Ha, see what I did there?

 

[Demon_Skeith]

yes, and you failed.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

Well if you saw it I obviously did not fail. It wasn't that good, but still worked.

 

[hissae2]

Everything I hear about the Xbox One has just been making it sound worse... :/