Natal launch details leak from secret Microsoft tour

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Serious_frusting said:
it was to be expected because it is just an ps eye

The only thing that will separate these two is the software on them. Who can out casual the other?

Are you speaking from a hardware price perspective or from the ability of the devices?

hardware perpective he is right. since natal will use 1.3mpx sensor.

ability well, depends if sony also delivers face recogntion and the promised voice recognition.

Hardware, you are probably right, only add an IR sensor to the cost, probably not much.

Ability, well lets hear from the Sony engineer himself.  Listen closely at about 1:40.

 

"We could do motion capture with color, but, you can only do so well."

EyeToy does motion capture with color.  Natal does motion capture with IR.  Ability is not there, and Sony says so.

sony can do 1-1 motion tracking though thanks to the controller, face recognition already, even work with interfaces the same way as seen with eye pet.

 

It is still using color to track to bright balls.  So it is a 1:1 mapping to two glowing orbs.  Not a 1:1 mapping with an entire body like Natal.

RGB just isn't as good for motion tracking as IR.  Which is what my question to Serious was about, since he stated that it is just a PSEye.  Which it clearly isn't, as stated by the horse's mouth.

of course tech it's better, but software will be? and natal still isn't 1-1.