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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
All Kinect was good for last year was to cause Replays at the events I worked at. We had to assign to people to guard it as if Obama was in the zone prancing around. If anyone set one foot in there during the autonomous period the match was a scratch and had to be redone.It was more trouble than it was worth.
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Not necessarily true. For hybrid, yes it caused replays and was not often utilized by teams (although we did benefit from one of those replays at CMP....
). However, the teams that took advantage of the Kinect's vision capabilities for targeting were incredibly successful if their programmers spent some time on it.
I like the idea of having the kinect available in Hybrid/Auton. especially if that period were increased to say 30 seconds (?) This would help fulfill a 3 minute game like so many people are looking for, and allow more utilization of the kinect. For 15 seconds, it is not useful, but in 30 seconds a lot could happen. We would see a lot of dead robots on the field for the final 10 seconds of hybrid, but if a team could successfully utilize the kinect, even for a brief 10 seconds after a 20 second Auton program, I think it would be a real game changer and make for an interesting competition.
......but really, those field issues do need to be resolved......