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Details On Natal's Motion Capture Technology

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-a-little-dance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following yesterday's announcement of a late 2010 launch date for Natal, more details are emerging on exactly how Natal works. Alex Kipman, the project's lead developer, explains that Natal uses only 10-15% of the Xbox's resources to calibrate to a new player inside 160 milliseconds, track one or two players simultaneously, and use rudimentary knowledge of body anatomy to estimate where hands or other body parts are even when they can't be seen by Natal — for instance when they are held behind the back."

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  1. CmdrTaco has a tiny penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has a tiny penis (it's barely 2 inches). This is why his wife had to go around fucking black guys to get pregnant cause Malda's tiny dick could barely squirt out a drop of semen.

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  2. Easter egg by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you do a monkey dance or throw a chair, Natal will hork up a video of Steve "Sweaty" Ballmer saying that Microsoft loves you.

  3. Re:I just want to try it by Latinhypercube · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's going to be shit. Real time optical tracking is so far off. This whole natal campaign sticks of bull. Seriously, optical tracking didn't even work properly on AVATAR ! They ended up having to manually animate the faces....