Notes on Project Natal, including how much space you need

[demitri55]

kowenicki said:

kitler53 said:

kowenicki said:
I doubt you need anywhere near 13ft of open space... thats just where it CAN detect to.

Doesnt mean you HAVE to utilise it.

well i'm a bit over six feet tall so according to this:

To be precise, you'll want to clear an area extending at least 4 meters (a little more than 13 feet) away from the television. That's the back edge of the space to be taken into account by the Natal sensors. In terms of width and height, the field of vision naturally expands as it moves from the Natal device to that back edge, ending up a little more than 4 meters wide and 2.7 meters high (about 8 feet, 10 inches).

....standing 13 feet back the height of the field of vision is 8 feet 10 inches.  did the geometry on the situation and if i were to stand any closer than 8 feet 9.6 inches and the field of vision will be less than my height.

not sure how you calculated that, sounds bogus....  doesnt it depend how high you postion the natal? which will vary wildly from user to user.

the closer you stand to any camera regardless of size the less of your body it shows because it cuts off, the further back you stand from the camera's eye the better chance you have of the lense viewing all of your body in an image.