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Originally Posted by v6sonoma
The Kinect is an interesting device. While the fact that my Wii remains unused for 6 months at a time till a decent game comes about will show I have little interest in motion gaming. I am interested in the techs used. The Wii's original solution involved tracking via infrared sensors and accelerometers. It works but is not very accurate. They added the motion plus device which contains a gyroscope and an additional accelerometer to give it a 1:1 ratio of movement even if the infrared sensors loose sight.
The Playstation2/3 had the EyeToy and it could track motion on a 2d plane but that was it. It worked but was limited. So they added the Move which combines the same tech as the WiiMote except it uses the EyeToy camera and a color changing soft ball on the end to gage depth in the 3d space.
Kinect uses a series of cameras and infrared emitters to track you in a 3d space. It works quite well and people have already started hacking to see how it works. Kinects biggest drawback is the tech relies on how far away you are from the rig. If you're not in the sweet spot tracking isn't as good.
I think the Move is probably the most accurate of them all but as I've always said if it doesn't all come in the box with the system then it's doomed to fail. Software developers want to sell tons of games. Making a game for something that not everyone has limits your sales and your budget. Good games will be scares and most likely for the Move it will be for half a$$ed tacked on features to other games. We'll have to see how they sell. At least Nintendo started packing the Motion Plus tech into New Wiimotes now.
Here's a cool video of what the Kinect is acctually doing.
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False, ps move does not use the same tech as the wiimote at all, the wii can't track 3d space or the body at all as the move does. Both kinect and the move are an evolution of the ps2 eyetoy but they went in different directions. kinect is the pseye with the framrate cut in half and added quarter res depth sensors. Move is literally Mo-cap tech brought to the market, the pseye camera tracks the move which is an oversized Mo-cap ball. Microsoft are setting themselves up to findout that hardware is nothing without software to implement it in a manner that differentiate it from the competition. The games at present are eyetoyish games, and without a controller you can't navigate your character in 3d space, you are very limited on the type of games and generas that can be done which is why sony added a controller to work with the pseye. Thus being more flexible and applicable to many types casual and hardcore games while using much less system resources to the current ram limited consoles.
side note.. Microsoft decision to make kinect look like the wii motion sensor was a brilliant marketing move, but the $150 price point is absolute rapping of consumers. The xbox 360 cost $200.
edit : just saw the video sony already has that up and running thats similar, I will look for the link, no hack necessary.
edit : here we go, remember its all about software , if a game comes out that looked like that video you posted, it will look like this . watch the first 2 minutes, the rest is just sony PR.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg5MjYxMzQ0.html
edit : by the way both the 360 and ps3 have kinect and move bundles out of the box, but Microsoft lacks the first party studios to support it, which is another concern. Sony has new games for the move coming out early next year after the holidays. There are just too many red flags , my advice is ignore the hype and see how things playout or you run the risk of having a $150 dust collector if your not goimg to hack it.