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# Is the Kinect 2 powerful enough to read lips?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/is-the-kinect-2-powerful-enough-to-read-lips/
- Published: 2011-12-01T20:46:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:16.000Z
- Description: Remember that scene in 2001 where Dave and Frank discuss disconnecting HAL, but don’t realize that HAL can read lips? Well, we’re one step closer to that dystopian future: Eurogamer reports that a source has disclosed that the Kinect 2 will be sensitive enough to read lips. Kinect 2 will come bundle
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Remember that scene in 2001 where Dave and Frank discuss disconnecting HAL, but don’t realize that HAL can read lips? Well, we’re one step closer to that dystopian future: Eurogamer reports that a source has disclosed that the Kinect 2 will be sensitive enough to read lips.

> Kinect 2 will come bundled with future Xbox consoles, we understand.  
>  
> The intention is that Kinect 2 will offer improved motion sensing and voice recognition.  
>  
> One development source told Eurogamer that Kinect 2 will be so powerful it will enable games to lip read, detect when players are angry, and determine in which direction they are facing.  
>  
> Kinect 2 can track the pitch and volume of player voices and facial characteristics to measure different emotional states.

No word on whether the Kinect 2 will have an overwhelming urge to wipe out humanity, but after watching the seventh consecutive failed attempt at “California Gurls” in Just Dance 3, I wouldn’t blame it.

\[[via](http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-25-kinect-2-so-accurate-it-can-lip-read?ref=killscreen.com)\]

– *Filipe Salgado*