Nyko Zoom Range Reduction Lens - Kinect Required (Xbox 360)

I bought this item because in the room I play Kinect in it is almost impossible to play with two people. One can just about play but it misses off a little of the feet. I had read the numerous amount of mixed reviews for this product and I decided to go ahead and try it, without much hope and figured I would send it back if it didn't meet my requirements. Well I got the item, opened it, fit it which took about 30 seconds, literally just apply the kinect protector and clip this on whilst being careful that the protector doesn't come off. I have no idea how some people have said this has broken there Kinect.. I didn't even need to pick the Kinect up, I fit it whilst it was on the TV unit. Once switched on and loaded up the results were to be seen immediately. Whereas before the persons feet were missed if, it was telling me I needed to move closer! It now fits two people in to the screen and with space to spare. This has made my Kinect 10x more enjoyable and useable. I would simply say, don't expect miracles from this product, if your room is completely altogether to small to play Kinect then this probably won't be enough help. But if like me, you just needed a bit of extra space to get the desired results then this is definitely for you. On a footnote, the Kinect didn't really pick up my friends 4 year old very well before this, but now it seems to work with him perfectly.

I was worried about buying this item due to the mixed reviews, however I am glad I did. If you follow all the instructions the Zoom lens works almost perfectly: Your kinect doesn't get scratched and you don't have to move the furniture everytime you want to play the Kinect. However, it's only suggested you put the protection sticker on and only suggested that you re-adjust the kinect calibration. DO BOTH of these things and you won't have any issues. I didn't calibrate and found that I couldnt move through the dashboard menus and almost sent the item back in anger; however, after rereading the instructions it does say that a recalibration may be needed (and thinking about it this is obvious as the way the kinect is seeing has been changed). All in all it does exactly what it says on the tin, after a few adjustments. I would highly reccomend the Nyko Zoom lens for all those with an average size living room. 4 Stars, would be 5 if it clearly stated adjustments would be needed and if it could see the floor more easily. Nevertheless, I can stand 3/4 feet from the telly and play a game perfectly (with greater control than before as in some games previously the character jumped around randomly because I ended up edging closer to the sensor for comfort). **EDIT** After using the Zoom Lense while playing Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, it is clear that the Kinect with the lense attached CANNOT see your feet and so must be removed to play this game. However this is the only game I seem to have had any difficulty within; due to how precise the Kinect has to be in order to see you to get the full effect of the exercises. As such if you use your Kinect for exercise alone I would have to sadly say that this is not reccomended. Nevertheless the review above sticks for every other game i have: Star Wars, Sports, Rise of Nightmares, Adventures, Child of Eden

This is quite a neat pice of kit. It clips neatly over the front of your sensor and really does make a difference to your playing space. You have to be careful applying the lens protectors - if they are not on perfectly, the sensor won't find you. I had problems with these covers, so left them off. Proving you're careful clipping on the attachment the sensor lenses will be fine. Again you have to line up the attachment and sensor lenses exactly. You'll see the Kinnect's green LED on the attachment front which makes it pretty straightforward. Then just use XBox settings or a Kinnect game to set the sensor up for its new angles of view and you're away. If you haven't got the 6ft+ clearance around you then this is a must have

I bought this against my better judgment and unfortunately I now have a classic case of buyers remorse. I have been using my Kinect with 'My Shape' which is an exercise game. I've not been able to get full use out of this game due to a lack of space in my living room. Anything that involves big side lunges or steps backwards usually ends up with me falling over my couch, or the Kinect not being able to register my movements correctly. So I over optimistically sent sent for the Nyko Zoom, naively telling myself that perhaps the bad reviews that it had were a result of customers not properly re-configuring the Kinect. I was wrong! I installed it according to the instructions, reconfigured the Kinect settings, and immediately I could see that it did make a difference as to how much of me the Kinect could see. However there was also a vignette type halo around the outer edges of the image where the camera could not see anything and lots of jumping 'artifacts' in the image. Things got worse when I loaded up My Shape. The game creates a superimposed live image of yourself in a virtual environment so you can see yourself do the exercises. With the Nyko Zoom installed, instead of just picking up me, the Kinect camera was mistaking other objects and bits of furniture for players too. The Kinect was also not recognising my light coloured hair, erasing it from the final image. I tested the Kinect with a block punching game, and with the Nyko Zoom, the Kinect seemed to be confused about where my head and torso started, and the result was that the blocks appeared too low for me to reach. Even trying to maneuver around the menu system was a nightmare and very inaccurate. Mysterious 'ghost' hands where appearing and spontaneously selecting things on the menu even when I was out of shot! I spent ages trying everything to get this thing to behave, but the bottom line is, it doesn't work, and I suspect if such a device was viable in the first place, then Microsoft would have licensed one of their own. Maybe the Nyko zoom works for some games better than others. However for something like an exercise game, that records and tracks your progress and amount of calories burnt, the Kinect really needs to be as accurate as possible. The Nyko Zoom reduces the accuracy of the Kinect to such an extent that it just isn't fit for purpose.

It quickly became obvious that I was not able to access the full playing potential of the Xbox 360 Kinect for two reasons. My room is, only just, too small and I am 6' 6" tall. The result is that despite being forced back against the sofa front the Kinect bar was unable to fit my full height body into its Tracking Window. Due to this I decided to buy the Nyko Zoom Kinect accessory hoping the device would sort these issues out. The Nyko Zoom was delivered BNIB in less than two days from placing my order on Amazon and was competitively priced including very reasonable P&P. The Zoom was nicely packaged from which it was carefully removed. A guide is included explaining the correct way to attach the Zoom to the Kinect Bar and a recap for ideal conditions using the Kinect Tuner which really does need to be complied with. I took care applying the provided protective sticker to the Kinect Bar and then removed the protective electrostatic film from the Zoom surfaces. Although the Nyko Zoom is not an Official Microsoft Product the Quality of Build and Finish are to a Very High Standard and is a perfect cosmetic match for the Kinect Bar. Attaching the Zoom to the Kinect Bar is a simple operation as per the included instruction. It is important to closely line up the Zoom Lenses with the Kinect bar lenses before clipping in place. You may then need to reposition the Zoom with a very small sideways movement to allow the proper seating of the Zoom Lenses confirmed by a reassuring click. I then went through and successfully completed the Full Kinect Tuning process. To my delight I was able to stand a couple of feet closer to the Kinect Bar, my full body height, was within the Kinect Tracking Window with more room to spare. I have tested each of my Kinect Games with the Zoom fitted. So far I have not experienced any problems with any of the games or Kinect Recognition for the Xbox Live sign-on by using the Nyko Zoom. In conclusion, I have to say that the Nyko Zoom is a Great bit of Kit, with excellent Build Quality and Finish which really does what I had hoped it would.

Followed the instructions precisely, tested in various configurations and lighting conditions, across three Kinect games, and must unfortunately conclude this is a flawed product. Like many, I would love to be able to use Kinect in a smaller space. After seeing the mixed reviews, and seeing some people had success, I assumed that if I followed the instructions properly, I would get a reasonable result. Instructions are clear, and the protective sticker if applied properly does mean that your sensor won't be damaged by clipping the new unit on. It is reasonably easy to line up with the lenses, although you may find you need to lower your sensor if you formally have it above your screen. Unfortunately for me, no amount of tweaking produced a usable final version. Looking at the calibration screen, there seems to be use fall off towards the edge of the screen, and some internal reflection within the lenses so that the tracking often sees ghosts of you. You'll also see that it offsets the image slightly, so for games like Fitness Evolved, the cut outs are slightly off centre. There are also problems with floor detection, and you'll often find that the game will lose you during levels, or at login, it will calibrate out by a significant margin. It remains one of the flaws of kinect that it fails easily in small spaces. However, this product, although producing a convincing optical effect when you look on screen, removes the delicate motion tracking needed for most Kinect games. If you're fed up with Kinect tracking, I can understand why you'd want to give this a try. However, my suspicion is that you'll be disappointed and this will end up dusty on a shelf.

To begin with, the biggest let down of the zoom in my opinion is that it can't function properly above the TV... this isn't really to do with the fact it is above the TV but the fact it is high up. It appears the lens' angle upwards slightly and hence when Kinect finds you it is practically aimed as far down as it's little adjusting motor lets it go... therefore when playing games were it usually adjusts downwards to see your feet and legs better it simply can't see them... this leads to all sorts of problems were it confuses your arms and legs together. After I realised this I conceded and placed the Kinect sensor below my TV and tried again, this time it worked fine, however like the packaged quick start guide indicated the Kinect hub menu hand tracking wasn't up to scratch but the games worked fine. (Kinect adventures, Kinect Sports, The Gunstringer & Rise of Nightmares) For me the Nyko Zoom succeeded in reducing the space required for the Kinect by about 3ft however as my TV is on a desk the Kinect had to be moved 1.5ft forwards (since it has to be lower down) so that it was on the edge of the desk resulting in an overall loss of 1.5ft. For me the reduction of 1.5ft was usefull as it provides just enough room for me to play Rise of Nightmares etc without the annoyance of banging my elbow off my bookcase and not having room to step backwards properly. Overall I would not recommend the Zoom but neither would I recommend avoiding it, my hope for 2-player has not worked out (due to 1.5ft loss due to desk and below TV) but it has enhanced single player a bit. Before buying this I recommend checking that this product will make a big enough difference to your playspace to warrant the price tag. (keeping in mind it should be no more than approximately 3ft above the ground).

I looked at loads of reviews on different sites for the Nyko Zoom Reduction Lens, and I am glad I chose to ignore and give this a go, it took 5 minutes to install and set up, I ensured I applied the protector cover, lined up sensor lens and green power indicator light with the Zoom Range Reduction Lens and with slight gentle adjustment easily fits into place, you can hear the zoom lens move into place on top of kinect sensor lens, and then its in place. It works in reducing playing sapce down, I was able to play between 3.5 ft and 4 ft away from sesnor/tv screen, and you can use for two players aswell, when setting up it will track and locate you in the "good" playing area, not "best" playing area, as the kinect is reading distance as normal, not zoomed distances, it is more than responsive enough, I'm really pleased with this item and have purchased some more as presents for family who also use kinect, from my personal experience I am glad I ignored all the negative reviews of which there are many, and went ahead and brought this, would recommend to anyone. It works brilliantly !!!

Reduce considerablemente el espacio necesario para jugar y no altera el funcionamiento del kinect, el reconocimiento de voz sigue funcionando perfectamente y el reconocimiento del jugador. Igual la única pega, es que las "fotos" que sacan algunos de los juegos de Kinect saldrán un poco pixeladas, pero , si como a mi no te interesan, te parecerá el producto perfecto.

Hay que seguir bien las instrucciones para colocarlo en el kinet, pero queda muy bien. Sí disminuye un poco el espacio que se necesita para jugar, pero hacia atras, el ajuste es hacia los lados el espacio. En la visión del kinet hace que se vean un poco oscuro los bordes, pero si funciona bien.

センサー認識についてここにいろいろ記述があったのですが、値段も値段ですからダメ元でまあいいかということで購入しました。 171センチの私が使うだけからかもしれませんが、認識に全く問題はありません。 手の形の、マウスで言うところのポインターの移動、固定も、アダプターをつけないで動かすのと全く変わりなく思い通りに動きます。 設置はレンズ中心で床上134センチ。 製造番号は1130085015です。 画面に映るキネクトが読み込んでいる自分の姿も、他の方が書くほど小さくはなっていません。 まあちょうど良い大きさというのかもしれませんが。製品的にもしかしたら改良されているのかも。 時々、スターウォーズなどでしゃがむのを読み取ってくれないと思うことがあったので、このアダプターを外して同じシーンをくり返してみると、 全く同じに反応しなかったりして、これはアダプターの要因ではなくもともと認識しづらい動きであったりすることがわかります。 作り的には、レンズの部分がちゃんとサスペンション仕様になっていたり、裏からのぞくと、レンズの歪みもこの価格ならこんな物だろうという品質の物で、決して粗悪な屈折率の悪そうなガラスがはまっているわけではありません。 レンズ周りにはるシートも入っていましたが、一筋の傷もつけたくないタイプの方は気になるのでしょうが、普通に使うぶんには気にならない程度の傷ですからそんなには目立つ痛み方をするわけではありません。 もしかしたら製品的な個体差が大きいのかもしれませんが、私的にはネガティブ要因は、ほとんど感じる物ではありません。

Despite many negative reviews, we bought the Zoom based on some of the positive reviews. Glad we did! I bought the Xbox 360 w/Kinect & the Zoom on the same day from different vendors and by chance, they were delivered on the same day, so we have never...not...used our Xbox w/o the Zoom. It was easy to set up/calibrate - very easy...Since we have a 72" TV in a smaller room, the Zoom made the difference between being able to use our new Kinect or not. We would never move couches and rearrange our room every day in order to do our daily workouts - ain't happen'in, crisis averted...Btw, our Kinect camera is about 26" off the ground. The Zoom will always be on the Kinect, although it only takes a split second to remove it, slightly longer to attach it - lining it up left to right - SIMPLE!!! Fyi, the Zoom is just a series of magnifying lens(one unit...) that snap on the Xbox Kinect camera. Not much too it, but it is a great idea and vital for situations like ours...I'm not sure why so many people are having problems with this. My guess is that some of these reviewers have problems with many of the things they buy...(draw your own conclusions...). My advice: if you think you need this, get it. The price is right. Btw, the aftermarket "privacy" covers for Kinect cameras will not fit if you have a Zoom on your camera - this should be obvious...A PHD isn't required to improvise. Maybe some genius will make one for Zoom owners, while others will just use a black sock or hankie...Whatever it is, we are feeling sort of creepy w/ this camera pointing at us while watch TV, Netflix, ect. so we are currently turning it to the side while not in use. If we can find a cover, we may just pony up another $20 for a piece of black plastic...What's another $20? (sarcasm)

Il Nyko Zoom fa esattamente ciò che promette di fare: diminuire lo spazio utile di utilizzo del kinect del 40%. Facilissimo da montare, consente da subito di giocare in spazi ridotti, anche più di una persona. La semplicità dell'idea e l'estrema funzionalita fanno però sorgere una domanda: come è possibile che il kinect non sia nato già con queste lenti? PRO: di facile utilizzo, estermamente efficace, sensibilità invariata. CON: nessuno.