JaggedSac said:
Is Natal using TOF? I read they are just reading the light intensity reflected back from the IR bursts. I thought TOF based it on the time it took and not light intensity. I am assuming they would correlate, but TOF is probably more expensive and accurate. |
I read somewhere it does... Intensity based systems may be less expensinve, but their accuracy may be disturbed by countless factors in an unknown environment (in the robotic meaning), as are every users' living rooms.
Given this latest news, and having SPE's that are perfect for the job and not fully exploited by games yet, Sony could end up with smoother, and more easily applicable to games, SW only solution for its camera. It's quite likely that Sony knew this before us and this would explain why they were so quiet about their own system, waiting for MS hype bubble to burst. Natal camera is more advanced, this is undeniable, but crippling it MS risks making its user experience more awkward than simpler solutions' ones. What's worst for MS is that this way it not only uncovered its best cards, but it discarded some of them instead of playing them. If MS wanted to be first and unchallenged, it had to accept to lose some money, initially, did it expect other companies to take the burden in place of it to bring the chips to mass production and commodity cost and still be first on the market?
