Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 7, 2010 @11:14PM from the trendy-name-guaranteed dept.

An anonymous reader sends along this excerpt from Shacknews: "Gaming hardware developer Razer has announced a new multi-year partnership with Sixense Entertainment and Valve Software to deliver a '...revolutionary true-to-life, next-generation motion sensing and gesture recognition controller for PC gaming.' Razer, Valve, and Sixense, along with a selection of PC OEM partners, are aiming to produce '...ultra-precise one-to-one motion sensing controllers that use electromagnetic fields to track precise movements along all six axes.' Each controller will reportedly track its orientation within a single degree, and detect positioning within one millimeter. Thankfully, the device will be compatible with both current and future generation PC games."

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Re:six axes? by BESTouff · 2010-01-07 23:48 · Score: 3, Informative

They're nos axis, but rotation instead of translation along the same axis. They're called Degrees of Freedom, so a game allowing uncosntrained movement is 6DoF.
Re:Casual Gaming by imakemusic · 2010-01-07 23:49 · Score: 3, Informative

Steering wheels are the superior controller for driving cars. Joysticks are superior for flying planes. The whole argument is dumb.

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