Wii Motion Plus Vs. Sony's Motion Controller

[Raze]

WereKitten said:

@Raze

Sure, but where your body can move and how it moves all exists in a 3d space. The means of detection of those motions may be different, camera vs accelerometers, but they both are tracking 3D movement. With WM+, it already is tracking these movements in 1:1 time, as with Wii Fencing for example. So yes, the means are different, but the end result is very much the same. Since it is not possible to improve on 1:1 detection, the point stands.

Yes and no. Technical details aside, the gist was that because of the way the motion tracking happens there are some things that you can't do with the Wiimote. If you were to keep your Wiimote almost vertical, pointing at the ceiling, or horizontal but parallel to the IR bar and then move around the room for -say- a minute, the software would most probably lose track of your placement, even with WM+. Thus you'd lose 1:1.

A solution with an external camera like Sony's will keep tracking your position as long as you are in the field of view of the camera.

Plus, even with IR recalibration, I have the suspect that the low resolution of the accelerometers could show if you wanted to -say- use the controller for something as precise as a marker to write on an invisible board in mid-air, which was one of Sony's tech demos.

To give you an idea of how this has already been proven otherwise (vertical position of controller), Cooking Mama and Lost In Blue have sessions of "stirring" movements, in which the system works fine. The IR is a lot less finicky than one would expect. The majority of the movements are sent to the Wii via Bluetooth, which doesn't care about location, as long as you're within 30 feet of the receiving side of the signal. Since the IR bar pans out over a significant space quickly, up to distances of 15 feet (as Ive tested), the combination of these systems covers the spectrum of motion that the body can produce, especially with the addition of WM+. It really is a clever technology.

As for the marker board, I could concur that it would be difficult on the Wii, but then again, writing on anything that isnt a real writing surface is difficult. Those fake pens used to sign for debit purchases suck So for me it'd be just as difficult with the Arc.