Sony Motion >Motion+ and Natal

[jetrii]

theprof00 said:
How does the camera only track 2d space?

In the tech demo he moved around and it tracked his movements. They kept repeating, "full body".

And how do you know about natal playing in the dark??? Does it have night-vision??

Let me break it down for you since it is a little hard to understand.

 

Nintendo:

Wand that tracks movement

 

Sony:

Wand that tracks movements

A camera

 

Microsoft:

A camera

A 3D sensor

 

In the Sony presentation, the game knew how far away the person was because of the wand. If you turn off the lights and try to hop round with Sony's technology, the game would only see the wand moving up and down. It has NO idea what the rest of your body is doing. If you do the same with Microsoft's technology, you won't be able to see yourself but the game still knows that you are jumping up and down and can map your exact movements to the character. It's not sonar, but it's a similar technology that fires something at you and then analyzes it when it comes back. With this, it can actually "see" 3D space. 

Microsoft's technology is pretty impressive IMO.