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Sony Demos Natal-Like Control System
An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has realistic expectations for the new system — it can capture broad body gestures but not individual fingers. That's just one trade-off needed in order to develop a real-time system that anyone can use, according to a markerless motion-capture expert."
It's still in the early stages of development, but the accompanying video shows the use of face-recognition software as well. The demo game has players moving their heads left or right to position their character, and then smiling to "catch" an object.
It doesn't anywhere that they'll be using this with PS3. And I doubt they will either.
" Sony Copied MS with achievements."
LOL!
What an idiot! They're call 'Skill Points' and they were first invented by Sony and Insomniac games all the way back in the late 1990s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWBU2Kezj0
"You've earned a Skill Point"
Microsoft ripped it off and renamed it.
"Sony Copied Nintendo with motion control "
Sony had motion controls in games going all the way back to the early PS2 days. Long before Nintendo jumped on the motion control bandwagon.
Way to make yourself look like a retarded fanboy Nerdfest!
Because Sony is a huge company with lots of different products. In the video they also seem to measure smiling of persons and say that the technology could be used for interactive advertising and gaming, but they're not specifically talking about PS3.
never forget, never forgive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit