Playstation Move: or how else would we have made the controller?

[joeorc]

Vertigo-X said:

joeorc said:

Vertigo-X said:

 

 

Okay, are you people seriously saying that Sony isn't copying Nintendo here? The concept is a blatant rip-off!

hey sparky:

Sony's R&D in 2003-

His wand is made from parts of a hotel clothes hanger and has a brightly colored ball on one end

Sony's R&D in 2005-

Sony's new idea is to plug a webcam into the console, and give the gamer a handheld wand similar to a pocket flashlight. The wand has a battery, a few mouse-like buttons and several different coloured LEDs that can be switched on and off in various combinations.

By pressing the buttons and waving the wand towards the webcam, the gamer can click to shoot aliens, drag-and-drop images on screen and navigate menus.

The webcam is tuned to see only pure bright colours and map their motion in space, so it can ignore ordinary room lights. And if two people have wands with different coloured LEDs, they can play against each other.

SO HOW ELSE DO YOU MAKE AN ELECTRONIC WAND WITH A SPHERE ON TOP?

O'l and if you still think it's a copy:

Wii remote when was it first shown

The controller was revealed at the TGS on October 14, 2005, with the name "Wii Remote" announced April 27, 2006.

SONY's concept of the playstation wand :

Invention: Magic wand for gamers

• 16:41 23 August 2005 by Barry Fox

For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is now available exclusively online. Please send us your feedback.

Magic wand

PlayStation gamers are always looking for exciting new ways to control the onscreen action, but using a camera to track a player's body movement has not worked reliably, admits Sony. The camera gets confused by other things in the room.

Sony's new idea is to plug a webcam into the console, and give the gamer a handheld wand similar to a pocket flashlight. The wand has a battery, a few mouse-like buttons and several different coloured LEDs that can be switched on and off in various combinations.

By pressing the buttons and waving the wand towards the webcam, the gamer can click to shoot aliens, drag-and-drop images on screen and navigate menus.

The webcam is tuned to see only pure bright colours and map their motion in space, so it can ignore ordinary room lights. And if two people have wands with different coloured LEDs, they can play against each other.

Read about Sony's gaming wand here (pdf format).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7890

 

so 2 month's after Sony's concept the Wii remote get's shown

 

 

Okay, I'll forgive you for missing this, but seriously: look at the fucking pictures.

SO HOW ELSE DO YOU MAKE AN ELECTRONIC WAND WITH A SPHERE ON TOP?

and to make it like a pointer you would need a nanlog stick of some sort.

GET over it people!

the simple truth

the Wii mote  is a "remote"

the nunchuck is a "little remote"

playstation Move is a "REMOTE"

playstation sub is "little REMOTE"

THEY ARE BOTH MODELED OFF OF THE

REMOTE

WHY?

BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT DESIGNED THE TECHNOLOGY BOTH USED WAND'S, BOTH SONY AND NINTENDO WAY BEFORE THE Wii an the PS3 was released was delving into THE SAME IDEA that a " Remote style of controller " was very good in it's design to controll interactive software.

notice DR. Marks used a wand with a freakin sphere on top even back in 2000' there is a reason, the technology  of the EYE TOY work's best with a colored sphere on top. a multi-colored sphere like a led that changes color can represent a muzzle flash, or rep. a paint brush to interact with the EYE TOY.

it's the freakin designer of the EYETOY he was using a wand, because that's the best way to use it.

even back in 2000'

once again  it's not a clone, not a rip off, not a duplicate.