ArnoldRimmer on 14 October 2012
Not THAT innovative, but PS4 is going to ship with a Kinect-like 3D-camera/microphone combination.
It's not going to use the same TOF technology used in Kinect 1.0 though, instead it will be a stereoscopic camera like in the 3DS. That approach has a few advantages over Kinect:
- Perfectly suited for the upcoming success and gaining popularity of 3D TVs, like allowing for 3D video chat
- Much cheaper to produce than the expensive TOF technology used in Kinect 1.0, additional costs would only be slightly higher than those of a simple webcam.
Even Microsoft might switch to this technology in Kinect 2.0.
