| DirtyP2002 said: I think Sony Motion-stuff is pretty much like Nintendo. It might be advanced, but it is not ground-breaking. Natal IS groundbreaking. Log in just standing in front of the screen is pretty awesome. Voice recognition is insane.
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Facial recognition can be done with any camera (as long as it's got a good enough definition to make out features), and voice recognition technology isn't exactly new.
Neither of those are ground breaking.
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The fact of the matter is, neither Natal nor Sony's system is groundbreaking. I'm assuming that the Natal accessory is just an emitter that calculates a 3D environment from detecting how long it takes for the wave to bounce back (like bats.... and Daredevil). Sony's system is just a high-res camera that calculates changes in pixels on each frame, coupled with a higher precision six-axis in a dildo-shaped casing.
Sony could achieve 3D-world tracking through just using their camera to detect when objects get smaller or larger: the smaller they are, the further away from the screen they are.
What I'm basically saying is that neither of the solutions' hardware is groundbreaking, but where credit should really go to is the software engineers who not only are able to turn the 0s and 1s received from these devices into a rendered 3D world but are also able to do it in a way that other developers can implement the technologies easily into their projects.
