Sony Says PlayStation Move Precise Enough To Play StarCraft

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Bamboleo on 13 March 2010

pizzahut451 said:

Bamboleo said:

pizzahut451 said:

NJ5 said:
Amazing, the things the PS3 can do when it imitates the Wii.

Amazing, the things the Wii can wo when it imitates the PS2

The only thing I see that Wii imitated PS2 at, was conquering the market leadership for this generation.

Aside from that I don't see your point :

Using DVDs as its main disc format for example

Care to give another example?

that one is too lame

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Feylic on 13 March 2010

That's pretty good, they keep making this thing better and better.

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kaneada said:

Staude said:

There's been a flood of information coming from Sony about the new PlayStation Move controller for the PS3, but Sony's technically inclined folks showed off some of the more technically capable members of GDC, getting down to the finer details.

PlayStation researcher Anton Mikhailov, platform research manager David Coombes and developer support engineer Kirk Bender ran through a handful of demos for GDC attendees, some fun, others a low level technical peek behind the curtain of PlayStation Move. Some of the more interesting things Mikhailov and crew talked about were related to the motion controller's level of precision.

Mikahilov said the PlayStation Eye is capable of tracking the Move's movement to a precision of about one millimeter in the X and Y-planes. He showed this onscreen, zoomed down to the pixel level. On the Z-plane, Move's depth perception level of precision is about a centimeter. He further illustrated the Move's level of accuracy by mounting the controller on a tripod, eliminating the jitter we were seeing during on simple tech demo, which was actually coming from Mikhailov's hand.

Some of the Move's other neat technical tricks came in the form of combining face tracking with glowing orb tracking, the ability to detect facial features like glasses and a very rough estimate of a user's age. The most potentially interesting uses of Move's capabilities came in some very smooth, very accurate looking painting programs, the kind of thing that would be great for a graffiti themed video game.

But putting the Move controller's level of precision in terms most of the room could understand, Mikhailov said that they've been able to use the PlayStation 3 add-on as a device to control the PC version of StarCraft. While the company already has Move support working in the equally precision demanding SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs, if it works well as a mouse replacement, it might be worth picking one up.

Send an email to Michael McWhertor, the author of this post, at mike@kotaku.com.

http://kotaku.com/5491493/sony-says-playstation-move-precise-enough-to-play-starcraft

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well that's a pretty neat thing they did there :p

We need more rts on consoles (that work well)

Can we say "I want to see this on youtube?" I would love motion controlled real time strat.

e3 2009, they demonstrated a number of genres one was a rts tank battle

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divwilson50 on 13 March 2010

i'd love to see this.

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MaxwellGT2000 on 13 March 2010

pizzahut451 said:

Bamboleo said:

pizzahut451 said:

NJ5 said:
Amazing, the things the PS3 can do when it imitates the Wii.

Amazing, the things the Wii can wo when it imitates the PS2

The only thing I see that Wii imitated PS2 at, was conquering the market leadership for this generation.

Aside from that I don't see your point :

Using DVDs as its main disc format for example

Uh... Gamecube used DVD format >_>

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Carl on 13 March 2010

Wow... Another thread derailed by Nintendo fans. Amazing. Just what we need. If this was a thread about Nintendo and Sony fans were all over it there would have been several bans.

psrock said:
I READ this article over and over again just to make sure why this thread is full of Wii fans derailing it including a mod. This is getting out of control, while I understand your feelings are hurt because Sony took Nintendo's idea, but it does not excuse the derailment, trolling and flaming that has been going on lately. This is very sad, and killing a lot of good threads.

My God for those who read it, the Move is seriously amazing if it can do what I read, guessing your age, weight and know if you are wearing glasses. Pretty cool stuff.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

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Xoj on 13 March 2010

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Xoj said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Xoj said:

johnsobas said:
too bad it would suck because of no keyboard, and the pointer would work just as well if not better on the wii. Unless you are using mouse+keyboard you would be at a huge disadvantage.

u can :p on the ps3,

You can on the Wii too... amazing how things that have USB support can use USB keyboards as well as other inputs since its all about software that uses it lol

well on the ps3 it's on the SKU, UT3 implemented it with easy, 360 have also usb ports but there is not support in them to use on developers, actually it's locked to microsoft licensed accesories only, third party it's banned from using it without microsoft approval.

not sure about nintendo, never found anything related nintendo, alsonever heard of them having engines for third parties, other than the wiimote SKU. if any

from what i read keyboards are supported, but mouse isn't,

Uh... do you know what the hell you're saying? Like really? You can use any old USB Keyboard on any of the systems... anyone can take advantage of that if they program it into the game.

Anyway... for third parties and use of USB Keyboard