MS investigating possible processor gains on Kinect-free Xbox One
Yusuf Mehdi, the company's corporate vice president for devices and studios, told Polygon it was in the process of investigating whether this could be accomplished.
"We are in discussions with our game publishers about what we might do in this space and we will have more to talk about soon", Mehdi stated.
Before its launch in late 2013, Xbox One engineer Andrew Goossen explained that the console reserves 10 per cent of its graphics processing power for system processes including the multitasking Snap mode and Kinect.
"Xbox One has a conservative 10 per cent time-sliced reservation on the GPU for system processing," he explained last October. "This is used both for the GPU processing for Kinect and for the rendering of concurrent system content such as snap mode."
It is possible this 10 per cent reservation may not currently be fully utilised, and that Microsoft had reserved extra space aside in case future OS updates added more Kinect functionality that would have taken up more system resources.
At the time, Goossen said Microsoft planned to free up some of this reserved power to developers in future, offering a further increase in the system resources available to them.
"In the future, we plan to open up more options to developers to access this GPU reservation time while maintaining full system functionality," he replied.
Microsoft recently announced plans to release an Xbox One bundle without the inclusion of a Kinect sensor. This apparent reduced focus on Kinect suggests the company might free up this extra power that was potentially reserved for future Kinect features that ultimately may never appear.
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slapshot101Posted:
I am glad they opened up this extra space in the next update but it would be interesting to see what people who have the Kinect, what their performance will be when there Kinect is plugged in if the 10% of the GPU is being used for a game instead of the Kinect, will the Kinect just shut off? I am sure they have this figured out but only time will tell how it works out.
ProhibitPosted:
The kinect is rubbish. I wouldn't even bother using the voice commands because I think I sound like an idiot talking to my Xbox.
nblzPosted:
kinect is a cool technology, but honestly most gamers won't be interested in this motion tracking camera. console players just wanna sit down in front of their tv with a controller in their hand and game. its sick to see a kinect free xb1 might actually be more powerful, so i'm eager to see if actually improves performance power wise. if so i will definitely be selling my kinect because i don't use it except to face recognize and sign me in sometimes.
ZipsPosted:
DanimalsOedipul I can't believe they still even care about the kinect
yeah i dont know why they even like it
Never used it and will never use it.
DanimalsPosted:
Free_yoghurtAR15Free_yoghurt i hope we can notice the change
I'm sure you will be able to. 10% is quite a bit.
yea , i really also like the kincet features , im going to miss them
you will be able to notice it. no doubt
-yoghurtPosted:
AR15Free_yoghurt i hope we can notice the change
I'm sure you will be able to. 10% is quite a bit.
yea , i really also like the kincet features , im going to miss them
AR15Posted:
Free_yoghurt i hope we can notice the change
I'm sure you will be able to. 10% is quite a bit.
-yoghurtPosted:
OdinGame_of_ThronesXsplay Did the kinect really use up that my processing power for it to be a noticable gain
10% wont make that much of a visible difference. Sadly 10% more power /= 10% better looking games, not even close.
!= but same idea :p Yeah but 10% more processing power is quite a jump
i hope that we will notice the difference
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