The New Feature of Kinect Allows the Netflix Movies to Be Maneuvered Using Hand Gestures or Even Voice Detection

The experience of watching movies over your Xbox 360 with Netflix has now become easier than ever before as Kinect now offers controlling your movie with gesture and voice control. These new features are recently released by Kinect, in the form of free software update which is downloadable from the Xbox 360 Video Marketplace. Kinect will respond to your gestures or voice both while you watch a movie using Netflix.

The functions which will be controllable unavoidably include the play, fast-forward, rewind and pausing feature for any kind of movie, TV shows or any kind of video. Either you can use the hand gestures, which will be best detected on the bottom left of the users screen and responded accordingly, or else the user might just want to speak commands like saying "Xbox, Play," would simply play the movie.

However, as reported by the Xbox 360 Digest, despite the Netflix movies being ‘controllable’ by the Microsoft Kinect but still actually ‘getting to them’ anywhere else in the Xbox 360 interface will still need the Xbox 360 controller/remote way, so it isn’t necessary an additive. Having the movie with a "special recommendations" section is an exceptional case in this matter.

Analysts criticize that what is really the use of this feature considering the user will still require the controller or a remote in any case. But in that case, it can actually be really helpful as we very often lose the remote or Xbox 360 controller, hence now we can actually speak to the TV and it will actually listen to you this time. Moreover, if one person has the remote and the other wants to control the movie without having bothered the first person with the remote, still this newly introduced feature could be applied.

Still many people share the opinion that this new feature of Netflix control via Kinect is no that very useful and more likely to just an attraction for the users and popularity gainer. But considering it to be a completely free update, and assuming that the user will hopefully own the Kinect sensor hardware, this feature can really be a good relief when you’re lazy and perhaps have lost your remote or controller. Hence, in that scenario, considering it to be a general free update not costing anyone, it can be taken as a harmless new feature which adds to the uniqueness of Xbox 360’s lost of cool features.