The use of the Kinect and Cheesy Vision in 2015 and beyond

[Jared]

Originally Posted by inkling16

I'm curious then. Why do you think that so many teams used a Kinect/webcam this year in auto?

Sorry, that's not what I meant to write. We did use Cheesy Vision this year, and we always made a hot goal when we ran our 1 ball auto mode. Having control in autonomous mode is a competitive advantage. If we had it working at our first event, which we lost by 2 points, we would have won. I meant to say that robots that do use kinect/webcam control are more competitive, but that I don't think it will do much to solve the issue of robots just sitting there in auto.

With the exception of the Einstein finals, which are 3 out of the 10,655 matches played this year, how many of them were more exciting to watch because of kinect control? At least for this years game, shooting in a hot goal is not particularly more exciting than shooting in the not hot goal for most spectators.