Zoom for Kinect - Xbox 360

So happy to have found this. Mine had quit working. Took awhile to find. This one works great. Great price.

After reading many of the negative reviews, I thought it's best to write my experience with the product. I had this pre-ordered for a while now, and since it was only $24, I was willing to give it a shot , just so I can stop moving furniture around every time I needed to use the KINECT. So far it worked out. It is true that it's probably not that accurate, but I use it with Fitness Evolved, and it tracks things really well, I am surprised how much more closer to the sensor I can stand now. Some people have mentioned that KINECT needs to see the floor or it re-calibrates, this is true, but there are instruction to fix that issue in the manual of the product. My KINECT is placed under the TV, so many that helped my situation. Overall, for $24 it was worth it, I take this over having to move my furniture around (ie. heavy couch) every time i felt like playing a game. Which caused me to not use the KINECT as much. It does create issues for gestures when watching HULU or Netflix because the "playing area" is now much closer to the TV, so the KINECT can't recognize you from your couch 8 feet away. But that's a given considering the wide-angle lens they use as a solution. For the money, the unit feels very solid and well made, I would have paid $75 for it, because for me the convenience this provides is just un-parralled. However, I always thought MS had a reason for not doing this, so I have feeling, the new and more advanced games that are coming out for the KINECT might not work so well with a wide-angle lens in front of it. But for $24 , who cares!

I see all these reviews are all over the place so I wanted to weigh in with my own opinions. I barely play my Kinect, and really don't want to have to move my big L-sofa whenever I want to play. So like everyone else I was sold on the idea of playing Kinect with less space. At first my Kinect was on top of my TV, and I slapped the Zoom on and turned everything on.. and it barely recognized my hand, let alone me. I messed with it a bit, including redoing the calibration with that smiley face card, and it helped a little. When I went in to run the Kinect ID setup I saw what the problem was - it couldn't see my feet, and kept showing me as having my legs crossed and in all kinds of strange positions. So I moved my Kinect to below my TV, it's sitting on a speaker on my TV stand, so about 6 inches off the stand with the top of it in line with the bottom of my TV screen. I ran the calibration again, and it seemed to be somewhat better. I went and played Kinect Adventures, and saw in the pictures it takes what is probably the issue with the Zoom - everything is shaped different, and on the outside of each image you can see the circle for where the lenses are. BUT, you can clearly see it sees ALL OF YOU, and more, if the Kinect is below the TV. So what I did was go back into Kinect ID and -deleted my settings-. All the saved things it had to recognize me I cleared out. Then re-did it. And everything started to move a lot better. My wife did the same and experienced the same thing. I think the original way of viewing the world and the new way it looks with the Zoom on all saved together confused the system. So what I suggest for other people who are having trouble before they return the Zoom: - Put the Kinect below the TV - Clear out your Kinect ID settings and redo the recognition setup. Another thing: I think 40% less space is conservative. 5 feet away from the Kinect was freaking it out in Kinect Adventures. So I still need to check that out more. Bottom line from me: For the amount I play the Kinect, once I worked the bugs out I'm happy with the device. It'll save me from moving anything but our coffee table, and that sounds good to me.

Despite many negative reviews, we bought the Zoom based on some of the positive reviews. Glad we did! I bought the Xbox 360 w/Kinect & the Zoom on the same day from different vendors and by chance, they were delivered on the same day, so we have never...not...used our Xbox w/o the Zoom. It was easy to set up/calibrate - very easy...Since we have a 72" TV in a smaller room, the Zoom made the difference between being able to use our new Kinect or not. We would never move couches and rearrange our room every day in order to do our daily workouts - ain't happen'in, crisis averted...Btw, our Kinect camera is about 26" off the ground. The Zoom will always be on the Kinect, although it only takes a split second to remove it, slightly longer to attach it - lining it up left to right - SIMPLE!!! Fyi, the Zoom is just a series of magnifying lens(one unit...) that snap on the Xbox Kinect camera. Not much too it, but it is a great idea and vital for situations like ours...I'm not sure why so many people are having problems with this. My guess is that some of these reviewers have problems with many of the things they buy...(draw your own conclusions...). My advice: if you think you need this, get it. The price is right. Btw, the aftermarket "privacy" covers for Kinect cameras will not fit if you have a Zoom on your camera - this should be obvious...A PHD isn't required to improvise. Maybe some genius will make one for Zoom owners, while others will just use a black sock or hankie...Whatever it is, we are feeling sort of creepy w/ this camera pointing at us while watch TV, Netflix, ect. so we are currently turning it to the side while not in use. If we can find a cover, we may just pony up another $20 for a piece of black plastic...What's another $20? (sarcasm)

Reduce considerablemente el espacio necesario para jugar y no altera el funcionamiento del kinect, el reconocimiento de voz sigue funcionando perfectamente y el reconocimiento del jugador. Igual la única pega, es que las "fotos" que sacan algunos de los juegos de Kinect saldrán un poco pixeladas, pero , si como a mi no te interesan, te parecerá el producto perfecto.

Hay que seguir bien las instrucciones para colocarlo en el kinet, pero queda muy bien. Sí disminuye un poco el espacio que se necesita para jugar, pero hacia atras, el ajuste es hacia los lados el espacio. En la visión del kinet hace que se vean un poco oscuro los bordes, pero si funciona bien.

センサー認識についてここにいろいろ記述があったのですが、値段も値段ですからダメ元でまあいいかということで購入しました。 171センチの私が使うだけからかもしれませんが、認識に全く問題はありません。 手の形の、マウスで言うところのポインターの移動、固定も、アダプターをつけないで動かすのと全く変わりなく思い通りに動きます。 設置はレンズ中心で床上134センチ。 製造番号は1130085015です。 画面に映るキネクトが読み込んでいる自分の姿も、他の方が書くほど小さくはなっていません。 まあちょうど良い大きさというのかもしれませんが。製品的にもしかしたら改良されているのかも。 時々、スターウォーズなどでしゃがむのを読み取ってくれないと思うことがあったので、このアダプターを外して同じシーンをくり返してみると、 全く同じに反応しなかったりして、これはアダプターの要因ではなくもともと認識しづらい動きであったりすることがわかります。 作り的には、レンズの部分がちゃんとサスペンション仕様になっていたり、裏からのぞくと、レンズの歪みもこの価格ならこんな物だろうという品質の物で、決して粗悪な屈折率の悪そうなガラスがはまっているわけではありません。 レンズ周りにはるシートも入っていましたが、一筋の傷もつけたくないタイプの方は気になるのでしょうが、普通に使うぶんには気にならない程度の傷ですからそんなには目立つ痛み方をするわけではありません。 もしかしたら製品的な個体差が大きいのかもしれませんが、私的にはネガティブ要因は、ほとんど感じる物ではありません。

I bought a Kinetic for xmas for my other half and was unsure if our living room would have enough space. I did see one of these zoom attachments at the store and thought about getting one but I decided to leave it and see how we got on with the kinect first. Well xmas day came and it was soon apparent that our living room was not big enough. We have a few metres between the sofa and the TV and the kinect could only just about see us, the top of our heads and bottom of our legs were cut off. Playing games was quite hard and the kinect didn't seem to pick up a lot of our movements making it quite frustrating to use. We could have moved the sofa for some extra room but it's one of those huge 5 seated corner sofas so moving it every time you want to play a game would be a pain in the backside! I decided to go ahead and get one of these zoom attachments, but I was a little put off by all the bad reviews. I spent a lot of time researching on the net and it just seemed so negative towards this product. In the end I took the risk and placed the order as it could not be any worse than it is already! Once it arrived I unpacked it from its box and got to work with setting it up. At first I was quite apprehensive as I had previously read that it can be quite fiddly to fit and damage your kinect if your not careful, but I soon found out that really it is very simple and easy as long as you do it properly and use the protective sticker so don't know how people have managed to damage their kinect's with this! I have the kinect set up on top of the TV on one of these TV clips: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004XV6ST4/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details and after turning the xbox on we ran through the kinect calibration again to make sure that we had everything set up correctly. It became apparent right away that the zoom made a huge difference, the kinect could now see a bigger area and was able not only to get us fully in the frame it also showed part of the floor infront of the us, something it was never able to do before and is something you need to play some games. Our movements now seemed to be more precise and games were much easier to play as the kinect now seemed to be working as you would expect it to. I am just disappointed that I didnt buy it sooner for xmas. If you have a small playing space then this is a great product. I honestly dont know why it has got so many bad reviews, its done everything it says on the box so I cant complain at all.

Il Nyko Zoom fa esattamente ciò che promette di fare: diminuire lo spazio utile di utilizzo del kinect del 40%. Facilissimo da montare, consente da subito di giocare in spazi ridotti, anche più di una persona. La semplicità dell'idea e l'estrema funzionalita fanno però sorgere una domanda: come è possibile che il kinect non sia nato già con queste lenti? PRO: di facile utilizzo, estermamente efficace, sensibilità invariata. CON: nessuno.