Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – May 8, 2013

Have you ever been sitting on your couch, in the middle of a marathon Gears of War gaming session, when the urge to have pizza overwhelms everything else? But your phone’s out of reach, and having to drive to pick up a pizza would cost you valuable gaming time. What to do? Thanks to a recent partnership between Microsoft and Pizza Hut, your problem has been solved! Pizza Hut released an app to the Xbox Marketplace that lets you order and customize a pizza. What’s different from being able to do the same thing on your computer or phone? The Xbox app will let you use Kinect, Microsoft’s motion tracking and voice-controlled accessory, to build the pizza through hand gestures and voice commands. While it’s a fun idea, it also shows how off-track and meaningless the Kinect has become. What could have revolutionized gaming is now being used to let you order pizzas so that you don’t have to leave your couch – at least, until the delivery guy arrives.