July 25th 2011 9:00 am PT

I highly recommend Avatar Kinect. We got to play around with it a little last week and it is a hoot!
Just love what we will be doing with it going forward…

waiting for this a long time…

Kinect fu labs hangs on blue screen to fix this problem thank you

I had this problem, try clearing your system cache, fixed the problem for me

Edit: And of course, as soon as I post that it starts freezing on the blue screen again

you cant play these things if fun labs is broken…

[...] post over at Major Nelson’s blog has confirmed that Avatar Kinect is now available for [...]

The update borked FUN LABS. Locks up on blue (logo) screen.

LOL @ Kinect Sparkler costing money.

LOL @ Kinect Sparkler costing money.

I tried updating Kinect FunLabs and it is hanging on the blue screen. Any word on an update to resolve this issue?

the fun labs have been down since last week. Whats up with that Major?

Man, I can’t play it sitting down like they do in the ads. It just gets fidgety. 

Here the same problem. After starting fun labs, i have a blue screen.

Pls make an update…

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Apparently you need to have Kinect Voice Commands turned on to avoid the freeze, though I don’t know how much truth there is in that.

You know, it would be a really good idea for MS to not only release Avatar Kinect, but finally fix or at least remove the patch for Kinect Fun Labs that broke the whole thing OVER ONE WEEK ago. Of course, now you can’t even post this tidbit on the forums, since they are broken as well for days now.

my voice commands are on and it still freezes

Fair enough, just something I caught on x360a.

Try turning them off and on again?

[...] post over at Major Nelson’s blog has confirmed that Avatar Kinect is now available for [...]

Got it… will figure it out later. I still think I need a bigger room for Kinect.

Use a quick launch to use it, it won’t freeze!

I am unable to get into Kinect Fun Labs. When it starts I see the Nissan ad and then it goes away and my console freezes. Nothing. I have an older white model Xbox 360 and I am not the only one with this issue. I got my Kinect last week and I have been unable to get into Kinect Fun Labs at all. I really want to try it out.

[...] to a post made on Major Nelson’s blog, Avatar Kinect is now available for [...]

I can confirm this method works. Just quick launch to Avatar Kinect and you wont have to deal with the freezing Fun Labs.

Not a good idea to announce this Major/Xbox. Kinect Fun Labs has been broken since the last update. It freezes every time. All you’re doing is inviting the whole world to get angry with you.

mine is only freezing now on my 250g hd my 120 g is working fine now  I am uninstalling it on the 250 now and try reinstalling it to see if iy will work like my 120g did

I’ve tested this theory and it fails. The reality is that this thing is just broken. It ocurred during either the Tuesday (7/19) Update or during the kinect update when Sparkler was added. Whatever it was, no amount of tweaks is fixing it. Additionally, I haven’t gotten a response from my submission. Awesome that people working on an SDK for Kinect now get to find out that stuff freezes. I’m usually fairly pro Microsoft because I love my 360 but I’d sure like an explaination as to why what seems to be a large percentage of users cannot get onto their Fun Labs. These things usually go through cert. -Adam

I can’t even get into fun labs, it always says server unavailable. Haven’t even been able to try Bobbleheads or Build a Buddy. 512MB Arcade model with a 60GB HDD from starter kit. I know the newer 4GB models have this same issue. Any fix in the future?

[...] Fuente: Major Nelson [...]

[...] majornelson.com [...]

[...] [Source: Major Nelson's Blog] [...]

[...] está esto vinculado a Kinect Fun Labs porque no tengo el periférico en casa, pero ojo porque la gente se está quejando de cuelgues y pantallas azules al ejecutar este conjunto de aplicaciones. Si hay alguien lo [...]

It’s good that this is another way in, however the way they want us to is through Fun labs, so they need to fix it so that we can.

It’s rumored that you need a hard drive for it to work. I was just complaining about this yesterday on reddit!

Edit: Didn’t read the full post.

[...] Source: Major Nelson [...]

I’ve got a 250g Slim model and I am having the same problem that most others are having. Sure, I can launch it from the quick launch menu, but I still have achievements in the other fun labs games that need completed. Any word on a fix Major?

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You mean an actual BSOD?! Haha! Awesome.

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I wish upon a star for some Radiant Silvergun news…

if you guys are having problems, try loading avatar kinect through Quick Launch, it should work as well with other fun labs apps

avatar kinect and sparklers arent in fun labs. i had to come here to download avatar kinect..i want sparklers too!

It’s not very good… Major disappointment =(

When you start Avatar Kinect, it asks you to Stand Up… I was unable to get Avatar Kinect or Kinect Fun Labs to recognise me whilst sitting down, even though the Kinect Hub can! In the Avatar Kinect trrailers, people were sitting.

The game makes you stand in one spot and pretty much tells you not to move. And me standing still and with a neutral expression made my Avatar look angry… I had to move my eye brows into an un-natural position to look neutral.

I found selecting things in Avatar Kinect very difficult as the hand tracking was off. Thiis only made me finally realise, after months of good will and excitement, that the Kinect is not easy to use. If you don’t have perfect lighting and are wearing the right clothes. Kinect just doesn’t work right.

I was really super excited about Avatar Kinect. Now I just feel like a sucker for buying a Kinect in the first place. It doesn’t, “Just Work.” and is frustrating to use… The slow and unresponsive Kinect Fun Labs interface also compounds these issues ten fold.

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Agreed. I have no idea why they even released it. The only way to play it is through a workaround, they KNOW that, and they still release it. Crazy.

It is what Fun Labs is now, they know about it, they aren’t doing anything about it. Their support page is blowing up over it.

I found the tracking to be terrible, not sure what the sensor even thinks it is seeing at times. Apparently you got that good version of it?

Is it seriously now MS’s policy to not even comment on something broken? Are they just going to keep releasing stuff for a program that isn’t working? Jeesh.

Good post.

I am hoping they get to work on Fun Labs and help Avatar Kinect actually work. I don’t understand what they were trying to promote in their demos, you see two people sitting down, their eyebrows moving and lips in perfect unison. Why even pretend that is anything close?

[...] Nelson dropped news yesterday that Avatar Kinect is now ready to download. If you have forgotten, and we [...]

I have also launch problems with Avatar Kinect.It freezes my Kinect

[...] Avatar Kinect now available: majornelson.com [...]

[...] haven’t personally checked my own Xbox 360 yet but, according to Major Nelson’s blog, Avatar Kinect is now available on Xbox LIVE for those that feel like giving it a [...]

Avatar Connect and Funlabs are working great. Had a idea I wanted to post for the XBOX community. Heard a hot one today by a Xbox insider. This is one I know the major must be  crunching the gaming possibility numbers already. Serious gamers are speaking about a breakthrough in MAGLEV the same technology used for floating trains. -XBOX kinnect levitation. Your avatar floats in the game you float on possibly the ”BIGGEST” selling gizmo in World History! Think of Iron Man or a game called Virtual Build Space where your using a extravehicular mobility unit(EMU). I could see the night before these hit the shelf. In electrodynamic suspension (EDS), both the gamer (Eakin-Trix-Reb) and the xbox kinnect top secret  base exert a magnetic field, and the gamer is levitated by the repulsive force between these magnetic fields. The user-interface in the games Code would reduces or increases the force according to the scenario.

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I hear ya, it’s been ages since we had that delicious teaser. I guess MS is too busy trying to force kinect onto customers.

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Start of September, 1200.

(MAYBE end of August.)

Sparklers comes out on Thursday and is 240 MSP, still want it?

[...] anunció ayer que ya está disponible para su descarga desde Xbox Live Avatar Kinect, aplicación para [...]

Yeah, that’s roughly when I expect it. If not by 9/21, then I am going to be concerned. Although someone did just post footage on youtube that was apparently shown at Comic-Con…

Yeah, that’s roughly when I expect it. If not by 9/21, then I am going to be concerned. Although someone did just post footage on youtube that was apparently shown at Comic-Con…

Yeah, that’s roughly when I expect it. If not by 9/21, then I am going to be concerned. Although someone did just post footage on youtube that was apparently shown at Comic-Con…

Yeah, that’s roughly when I expect it. If not by 9/21, then I am going to be concerned. Although someone did just post footage on youtube that was apparently shown at Comic-Con…

Yeah, that’s roughly when I expect it. If not by 9/21, then I am going to be concerned. Although someone did just post footage on youtube that was apparently shown at Comic-Con…

I have a problem with Avatar Kinect, Kinect Labs, and other non-game apps earning Achievement Points. It cheapens the meaning of what they represent. They should be zero point achievements at the very most, like what Xbox did for people who were at the 360 launch. Before you know it, it’ll be used for lame marketing in apps like Netflix, ESPN, and Hulu. “Watched the Season Premiere of American Idol – 20G”. Put a stop to it now!

Kinect fun labs seem to freeze each time I launch it.

A little something to think about…. If kinect didn’t have issues, if finger tracking was on point, if u were able to sit down and your avatar did everything you did without the slightest glich or problem then don’t you think Microsoft would’ve wanted your life savings, your house and car morgaged for this product (just saying)?

Kinect freezes as soon I launch it from the HUB! Unable to use the app. My xbox is a “grandfather” xbox. The HALO LE Xbox. Is it because its an old system? I know that people with the slim xbox don’t have a problem.

Kinect freezes as soon I launch it from the HUB! Unable to use the app. My xbox is a “grandfather” xbox. The HALO LE Xbox. Is it because its an old system? I know that people with the slim xbox don’t have a problem.

I cant download it… it says “Can’t download Avatar Kinect” or something like that

Uh oh… that shouldn’t have happened.
It appears you’ve found a glitch in the system.
date:7/27/2011 4:08:44 AMcode:36EF2A81ED94C17 s: tNyIRLwwos/0brV+Lgh7vg==id: f01fa0dd-b6db-42a5-aaa6-21d161cb6d17 req: f8434157-b5e7-47a2-8149-ba39e3747642

//

I cannot get it to download….

it seems to me that every game has been getting all bugged up and half done

what happen to make the game all the way and running smoothly and then downloads to help it better later
i didnt pay 68 dollars just to have it half worked
and seriously i was looking forward to this
but now, i have to wait even more til they fix the dang thing
this is bull!

me either

me either

no go with the download either

when downloading avatar kinect it say’s (cant download)

i CanT downloaD Avatar KinecT(CANT DOWNLOAD)

how can you spell all those big words right and keep spelling Kinect wrong?

Lol just because it costs a mere 240Msp you don’t want to buy it? How cheap are you? It would most definitely be worth it.

Having the same problem as everyone else. I’m guessing it’s something to do with the high demand in downloads, but MS should have prepared for this and created more than one download spot so if one server got full up with downloaders it would just switch to the next server and so on so we could all download the game with ease.

Doesn’t download well done microsoft another cock up

same thing dont download (CANT DOWNLOAD)

same thing dont download (CANT DOWNLOAD)

I get the “Can’t download” message as well. Was looking forward to trying it out

It would be nice if I could use this. Kinect Labs is the only thing on my Xbox that doesn’t work. Locks up every time as it is launching. Deleted and reinstalled, also turned on all Kinect functions per forums. Still freezes every single time.

It would be nice if I could use this. Kinect Labs is the only thing on my Xbox that doesn’t work. Locks up every time as it is launching. Deleted and reinstalled, also turned on all Kinect functions per forums. Still freezes every single time.

I was able to download it…. kinect fun labs just keep freezing up.

Game Labs doesn’t work for me either, but you don’t need it working it to play Avatar Kinect. Quick Launch it from the middle button. Works fine for me.

Downloaded Avatar Kinect + the update, but as soon as I enter Fun Labs the blue screen freezes.

Tried clearing cache and downloading the Fun Labs again, but that did not help.
I do have an old Xbox, could that be the problem?

Really want to play Avatar Kinect + Sparkle, so I am kinda bummed.

Here’s a solution for those of u really wanting to try the apps…..Press the silver button on ur controller, select quick launch then select recent downloads and launch ur app from there. We shouldn’t have to go through all that, but until they fix the problem that’s the way it is!

How long are they going to leave Kinect Fun Labs broken?

Wow! I’m always complaining about PS3, and throwing roses to Xbox360. And now, its been weeks since Fun Labs is broken and nobody is doing nothing to fix it. Or at least announce what’s the status. Unbelievable.