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daroamer on 21 January 2011
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I'm not sure I really see how Virtua Tennis could work with Kinect. How would you move around the court?

As you really would... I hope.

I don't think the space in front of most people's TVs will be the size of half a tennis court.

In consideration of most people' living rooms, I mean :P

Just make it on a smaller scale.

Take one step and move three metres across the court? It could work.

But more likely (hopefully), this means they're finally releasing some sort of nunchuk for the thing. Look at all of the Kinect hacking videos. None of them can manage to use it properly without an analog stick.

FPS on Kinect. Controlled with just 1 hand.

How do you think he's moving?

He's quite clearly holding a nunchuk. It's not reading his thought patterns.

He's not.  Jump to 1:02 where he opens his hand to fire, quite clearly there is no nunchuck in his hands and his other is flat on his leg.

From the Youtube page:

"MaxFPS is a high speed kinematic tracker; one hand (yes only one) is used for direction control (turn right/left), forward/reverse (variable speed), look (and target) up/down, jump, change weapon, fire and continues fire."

Forward is being controlled by the position of his hand relative to the camera.

There are MANY other examples I've seen, such as leaning forward and backwards to move.

I'm not saying these are ideal controls by any means but you said no one had done it, which is false. 

Having said that, you don't need to move the entire length of a court to get the feeling of playing.  Your brain can adjust to using a scaled ratio of your movements to the movements of your character.  Obviously they feel it works just fine or they wouldn't release it. 

Perhaps you should hold off on saying it's not possible until you actual see the product?