Wii Motion Plus > Sony Purple Wand > Natal

[dahuman]

nightsurge said:

dahuman said:
Stage, only to non tech savvy people would it seem that impressive, voice is done by software, any camera can scan full body, the difference is the tech in natal is high frame rate capture, not quiet as good as slow cam, but enough to capture general human movements fast enough with good precision at a higher resolution. all it is, is a pretty decent camera with a mic attached to it, rest is all software driven.

I'd like to correct this misinformed post.

Natal is not "just a decent camera and a mic."

Natal's camera does not just capture at a high rate, it has a second lens for tracking IR pulses so that it can track 3D movements and not just 2D stuff.  Also, you make it sound like the software has to be added to the 360 or something, but all the software needed for voice and interpretting the data received from camera is handled internally within Natal.  The final result is then sent to the 360 to be displayed/processed/manipulated/etc.

Any digital camera has software built in.  You seem to be thinking that electronics these days work without internal software?

you are thinking about firmwares, it collects data, it sends it to the host then the software, then the software decides what to do with that data, it's just a specialized I/O device, nothing more, nothing less. IR tracking is not new nor is it revolutionary.