CNN: Kinect is impressive

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Icyedge said:

unknown_soul89 said:

Icyedge said:

unknown_soul89 said:

Icyedge said:

Mr Puggsly said:

unknown_soul89 said:

 

I've seen plenty of videos where the games work. And I've seen a couple videos where they had trouble on stage. With that said, it clearly has issues in certain enviornments. As did the Eyetoy.

The Kinect is new technology. It has capabilites that can't be duplicated on the Eyetoy. The Eyetoy is just a webcam.

Thats right, eyetoy body evaluation is only software. Kinect is new technology but use the same concept eyetoy already had. Which is allright.

How is a second camera new tech?

Do you know another device having Kinect hardware and software? Hence a new tech. 2 Cam by itself isnt but when put together to do that it is.

By that logic almost every update sony makes the ps3 is new tech in the same way kinect is new tech as in not really 

Yes sometime they bring new tech through software thats right. Every updates is a big exageration tough. Even more so that if the tech already exist somewhere else it cannot really be called a new tech.

I am begginning to think anybody who says its just a PS Eye should start to see the ban hammer as this fud has been going on long enough.

The depth sensor which you guessed it the PS Eye never had is new tech. My favourite example of how the depth sensor works is the deflating ballon. A normal sensor can guess when a balloon is coming closer by calculating its size, the depth sensor can calculate this whilst the balloon is deflating the PS Eye would not be able to do that and would believe the balloon was stationary.