wraggster
November 5th, 2012, 18:15
Just when you think the cable TV viewing experience couldn't get any worse, GeekWire reports on the Microsoft Xbox Incubation team's patent-pending Consumer Detector (http://www.geekwire.com/2012/microsoft-diskinect-freeloading-tv-viewers/), which uses cameras and sensors like those in the Xbox 360 Kinect controller to monitor, count and in some cases identify the people in a room watching television, movies and other content. Should the number of viewers detected exceed the limits of a particular content license, the system would halt playback unless additional viewing rights were purchased.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/05/1244242/will-microsoft-dis-kinect-freeloading-tv-viewers
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/05/1244242/will-microsoft-dis-kinect-freeloading-tv-viewers