Microsoft patents tech that watches viewers

ah technology. the future of no privacy and nickel-and-dime products. alright dramatic cynicism aside, let's wait and see what happens with this.

I'm definitely not buying any product with that type of capability. That means allowing them to spy me.

Something like this will never be possible, if Zune has wained in support how the hell do they expect something like this to work.  Remember the whole build up to Kinect and it wasn't quite what people expected after watching the Milo project?

However, there are human beings, don't know any personally myself, who take pleasure in being watched so they will probably give this a go as an option but it's doomed to fail.

I dont believe this could happen. People are not that stupid!   Its like charging someone a subscription to play online when they already pay for an internet connection and calling it gold connection. No one is that dumb...

I don't understand? Does this mean that only the individual wearing the glasses would be able to "see" the content on the monitor? That would make it difficult to monitor kids playing games. And because I am in the room with my kids or friends while they are watching, playing etc.., does not mean I am activly participating in there entertainment. It just means I am in the room. Fail.

I can't see this happening. Just because its patented doesn't mean it will be made and MS is smart enough to see the flaws.

They just want to beat anyone else to the tech and charge massive money from anybody who wants to copy it.

Well say goodbye to a massive consumer of games, movies and music if they implement this. I rarely ever post and complain about a direction a company takes towards digital content, but this is in the league of SCARY.

To force a family of four who has two kids and want to watch a nice family movie, they need to purchase four licenses of that same movie in order to watch it? Goodbye next Xbox. I'll stick with my Wii U and PS4.

Microsoft just wants a good view of my naked body on the couch while I fap...

Here's an idea: Don't buy it. What's that thing called again? Oh yea - CHOICE!

I'm sure Microsoft is thinking the exact same thing about invasion of privacy and lawsuits, but once you accept their EULA...you're done. 

So as far as I'm concerned, you have 3 choices:

1. Buy it

2. Don't buy it

3. Go make your own and sell it.

Microsoft wants people to pay just to watch their friends play the game....

That. is. psychotically greedy...and just downright scary where society is going. 24 hour monitoring coming soon...

well i guess i'm truly done with video games then. sad...wish i could go back to the early/mid 90's

What if I don't want to get the camera? Are you going to make me? Well... then it is off to PS4, I guess.

This would be the death of Xbox and Microsoft as a gaming company.  I can see the class action lawsuits in the millions.  Full invasion of privacy.

What the f*ck did I just read?

If this goes through, then I'm just going to sit in front of the couch with my pants off and masturbate every time I watch a movie. Give them something to watch.

lol. Why does America only focus on copyright issues instead of actual (worse) problems that they have, like childhood obesity.

Terrible

Does this make them subject to possession off child pornography? when to say if some underage was getting changed etc. in front off a tv or so? (I guess you can vision a scenario considering this scenario isn't exaggerated)

do you see what i mean when i say 'where is our freedom from big business?'

and if they have the extra money to spend on this, then why cant they make any decent games or a reasonably priced product to save their lives?  sickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickofthissickoftthis

So I hear you will have to pay extra if you want to share your snickers with a friend now.

Yeah, not gonna happen.

Go fuck off MS

Well this doesn't sound sinister at all...

"i always feel like somebodys watching me --- and i have no privacy " hahah 

OH BOY THEGOVERNMENT IS WATCHING YOU NOW!  next step is installing security cameras in the local bathrooms of stores bars stripclubs and school so any time you use the bathroom it counts how much toilet paper you use  lol

Wow. Say goodbye to your privacy, folks. Microsoft's even planning on "monitoring" your every move as you try to enjoy a little bit of R and R in your personal space or when you're with your friends and/or families. Creepy word, eh, "monitoring". It's like Microsoft's slowly becoming this reality's Skynet. Or that A.I. chick from I, Robot. Or that freaky wheel-type thing from Wall-E. Like having a robotic spy in your living room. Ugh.

From watching that video I also got some virtual boy vibes.

What an epic fail.

Man, there are just so many cameras everywhere, do we really want more?

I just don't see this working anywhere, and it shouldn't. Seeing how consoles are usually available in many countiries, but content is restricted in South America for example, I believe the system won't work completely in such countries. And if it did, copyright is not as intensely controlled everywhere as in the US, and the hacking of this system would probably be used as a norm in some places (I might be exagerating a bit). I'm not making an argument in favor of piracy, but if it can in any way diminish the incentives for such a thing to come out, I'll be damn, but I'll give it my thanks. I don't know, if something like this is launched, it might not reach far from the well regulate countries (where copyright infringement is really prosecuted).

I can't believe this! They're going to these kinds of lengths to ensure that there are no "freeloaders", that MS gets their rightful due and is not conned out of any revenue. Say goodbye to having a friend come and play with you or playing on your account, that won't be possible with big brother Microsoft watching over you. Since they own the Xbox hardware I guess they can do what they want with it and enforce a mandatory upgrade so that no one can play any games without. It's bad enough with companies monitoring your internet traffic and whatnot, but this is really dystopian, Orwellian 1984 sh*t.

Well if any of this is true then i'll pass on this system. No1 is gonna tell me i can't have friends or family over to watch a movie with me. Please boycott this.

I can't see this being useful or workable. Not everybody has their room set up with their machine unobscured or their sofa directly opposite the TV, which is partly why I (and possibly many others) have avoided tech like Kinect. It sounds like they've just rushed to patent the idea, but that doesn't mean it will actually happen. I wouldn't like to see this in a console, and it would probably put me off buying it if it was implemented as a spying device or a means of controlling licenses.

fuck off microsoft

on a side note, i dont own any of your crapboxes.

sounds like a mirror pointing at a blowup doll will solve the issue

ill stick with buying my movies, ktxbai

First off; the English chick in the video is way cute!

Ahem, now that I've gotten that off my chest; to the matter at hand.

MicroSHAFT can take their invasive licensing B.S. software and hardware and effectively cram it up in any number of small orifices found on the human body.

I for one, will not own or patronize any product that the publisher is using to verify (SPY) on me while I watch or play said program.

Are media outlets/providers/publishers of the mindset that your average everyday consumer is turning his/her living space into a movie-theater or such? Good lord what's next? Charging you for exceeding the amount of humans consuming oxygen in a given living space?

I guess I will have to start wearing pants when I watch movies now.

Baby,.. can you please facebook in the kitchen for a few hours I'm trying to watch a movie.  

I just wonder how long before the gov't starts to demand the usage of this or uses it themselves. Maybe not but its possible some form of user per video thing. Especially if they try to get around movie theaters.