Natal Article

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WereKitten said:

kitler53 said:

SciFiBoy said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8214385.stm

Natal plots 48 different points on a person's body, such as hands, feet and elbows, to create a wire-frame virtual manikin that mimics a person's movements.

do we know where those 48 points are located?  A lot of people talked up the possibilities of natal however, everyone seems to igore the part that natal doesn't track every part of your body (as least as far as information provided to the 360 is concerned).  I'd like to know how well natal tracks your hands,...will it track your individual fingers (22 points by my count) or just the hand location (2 points, left and right)?

I remember reading that they had enough resolution for finger gestures (things like pinching) and they were working on them. If the points are 48 in total, then of course they are not tracking each phalanx of each finger, but that's probably overkill. A lot could be done just by tracking the extremity of each finger relative to your wrist.

I had heard this as well.  Perhaps they are giving developers options in regards to this though.  Such as different modes of detection.