| justinian said: Forgive my ignorance but what is so special about Kinect technology - I am not dissing the device. It's just that it is only a freaking camera with software. OK, I know originally that there was a chip embedded in the unit that was removed but for a company like Apple that now produces it's own processors, chips and OS why won't they simply develope their own motion sensing system. Where would the patents conflict? I don't get it. |
essentially its just cameras that map your movement, its the exact same thing as sony's eyetoy but it maps 3d environments - depth perception was added with the second camera.
the patents wouldnt conflict, sony could produce something very similar, doing the exact same thing actually, so could apple or nintendo, or well, kids in their moms basements now. now that microsoft has done it it will be easy for a group of kids to learn and emulate. open source drivers have already been started to allow anyone with kinect hardware to use it on their computers.
if the ps3 was more hackable i have no doubt that you would see homebrew kinect games on the ps3 within six months to a year
it may not even be a negative for microsoft, they wouldnt have to update their own drivers anymore once the community gets their hands on it. they could just copy what the community does; much like theyre already doing with googles opensource chrome browser.
