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

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.

I bought a Kinetic for xmas for my other half and was unsure if our living room would have enough space. I did see one of these zoom attachments at the store and thought about getting one but I decided to leave it and see how we got on with the kinect first.Well xmas day came and it was soon apparent that our living room was not big enough. We have a few metres between the sofa and the TV and the kinect could only just about see us, the top of our heads and bottom of our legs were cut off. Playing games was quite hard and the kinect didn't seem to pick up a lot of our movements making it quite frustrating to use. We could have moved the sofa for some extra room but it's one of those huge 5 seated corner sofas so moving it every time you want to play a game would be a pain in the backside!I decided to go ahead and get one of these zoom attachments, but I was a little put off by all the bad reviews. I spent a lot of time researching on the net and it just seemed so negative towards this product. In the end I took the risk and placed the order as it could not be any worse than it is already!Once it arrived I unpacked it from its box and got to work with setting it up. At first I was quite apprehensive as I had previously read that it can be quite fiddly to fit and damage your kinect if your not careful, but I soon found out that really it is very simple and easy as long as you do it properly and use the protective sticker so don't know how people have managed to damage their kinect's with this!I have the kinect set up on top of the TV on one of these TV clips: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004XV6ST4/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details and after turning the xbox on we ran through the kinect calibration again to make sure that we had everything set up correctly. It became apparent right away that the zoom made a huge difference, the kinect could now see a bigger area and was able not only to get us fully in the frame it also showed part of the floor infront of the us, something it was never able to do before and is something you need to play some games. Our movements now seemed to be more precise and games were much easier to play as the kinect now seemed to be working as you would expect it to. I am just disappointed that I didnt buy it sooner for xmas.If you have a small playing space then this is a great product. I honestly dont know why it has got so many bad reviews, its done everything it says on the box so I cant complain at all.

I know you are probably thinking what I was thinking. So confused with a lot of negative feedback and some good feedback. But I can tell you this thing works, and it works great! I can see where the complaints come from. I think the instruction could be a bit better. But as soon as you figure out, then this thing works perfectly!Right, the problem is that it is a bit tricky to set up. Even I followed all the instruction, it didn't work the first time and you can't calibrate it with the zoom lens on with the calibration card.I put it on then switched on the Kinect, it is just dark and couldn't see anything and like I said, you couldn't calibrate the kinect neither.So what I did is to take the zoom off, switched on the kinect, stand on the 6ft distance where it can only allow one player which is also my limited distance ( can step back any further). Now make sure my Kinect works as how it is without the Zoom that it can only allow one player at 6ft distance. Once it works ok, switched off the xbox, put the zoom on the kinect and place it back to where it was. Then it works and works brilliantly! I would have given it a 5 stars, but because of this issue, I put it 4 stars. But don't worry, it work! Just make sure that your kinect is place between 2 to 4.5 ft height form the ground, not on top of the TV! Hope it helps ur misery! HA!