Shut up and take my money!

kinect isn't a highly sophistacated webcam. It record the player using two cameras that it uses like human eyes to tell depth mathematically (hence you have the whole "you're too close, you're too far" issue where the player must stand in a specific area in front of the kinect"). From this, it embosses the player's image from the depth field, which is kind of like photoshoping the player out of the webcam recording, accept there is no separation, just the player is made to stand out. From this a virtual skeleton is plotted onto the person, and hence it translates the movements onto the game. The kinect, like I said, isn't that high quality of a webcam, and it has a very limited field of work; the webcam frame rate and quality make it so that it can't really see the clear shape of the fingers nor any movements that can be plotted out. This same concept goes for when a player spins around 360 degrees (it plots 3D animation from a 2D image and depth). Finally, depth itself is the main reason; this is how the kinect works, and also why it can't tell your fingers from your body; it uses the depth of field it captures using the two cameras and math to determine your body from the surroundings; not like it can magically focus on you few feet near you and specifically track those as you move around in front of the camera. If it could do that, than motion capture animation would just need a kinect, but as we know, it doesn't, and takes several cameras, the mocap suits, and all that fun stuff that costs hundreds of dollars.

You know you will play first day like that and the rest with the pad...

**anonymous rolled a random image posted in comment #23 at The Great and Powerfull Failure ** I will sacrifice my first born son to prevent this from happening

too bad that never existed