Squilliam said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Squilliam said:
Because quite simply the Natal interface has more commonality with the Wiimote than it does the Eyetoy. The Wiimote device at principle runs off a IR camera and an IR source, the Natal interface does the same. The only difference is that the IR source and camera are on the one device. Hence the fact that Natal bears a closer resemblence to the Wiimote and its existance as an interface has more to do with the success of the Wiimote than any inspiration from the lack of relative success the Eyetoy had. Since the main part of the interface doesn't even use the same spectrum of light as the Eyetoy its pretty foolish to draw a connection.
Oh and Microsoft has been working on new interfaces since before the mid 90s. Natal is probably the first real product to come out of a ton of research and development. Had the eyetoy not existed, the inordinant about of money spent on R+D by Microsoft on new interface technologies would have been spent. Arguably they had the precursers to Natal long before Sony even released the Eyetoy.
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You do realize Natal got its tech from a DIFFERENT company right? or do you have any proof MS was working on that tech for ages? Would love to see it
Eyetoy and Natal both uses a camera to detect movement, if that isn't as close as it gets your just in denial
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Why would I need proof? Its built into your Windows operating system in the voice control, its built into the Surface computer, into the Windows Mobile operating system, Microsoft Tablet format and that tech came from Microsoft labs. We also know that Natal wasn't even going to be a console interface until the Xbox guys coopted it.
The Eyetoy is nothing, its no inspiration for anything. The lack of success of the Eyetoy isn't inspiration to spend half a billion dollars on a new interface and to bet the future of a console on it. The Wiimote on the other hand is inspiration and thats the reason why Natal exists as a console interface. The Eyetoy may as well not exist because Sony did so very little with it in the first place.
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from what I see you are both right microsoft has been interested in this tech for a good we while now they already had a camera for the 360, and they say they had been working on a lot of vision library stuff but the majority of the tech comes from 3dv systems, that is what I have seen happening.
