JaggedSac on 07 January 2010
| justinian said: @Raze It is superior to PS eye in that is uses two (or is it three) cameras to track motion and depth. The main strength of natal was that all (or most) of the image processing would be done on a chip(s) built into the camera and therefore not using the x360 core processors. What it also means is that Sony can simply release a new PS eye with multiple cameras and with the experience they have with the current eye tweak the software to to do the same thing. In many ways it was the chip on the camera that give natal it's strength. |
The IR(and IR pulse generator) is indeed a large part of what makes Natal tick. It is actually the software that was doing the hard work. From converting the IR output into a body skeleton, to voice recognition, to facial recognition, the software is the most important part. The only change that has now happened, is that the software will be on the 360 instead of Natal. This will cause a performance drop for the 360, but the motion controlled experience will remain the exact same. Nothing has changed here except where the calculations take place. IR sensors are not new, the software that MS is developing is what is new.
