I would feel pretty bad for Nintendo fans too.

You mean it's replaced ps3 as the "cool thing to hate on"/...

When the dude stands sideways and still manages to bounce the ball (@0.45) even though the avatar barley responds to his movement, or is even close to the ball, made me go "huh?" I get that there has to be a somewhat bigger hitbox on the avatar, because realism never works, but that just looked weird. Like "you ever wonder what the bottom of an avatar's shoe lookes like"-weird.

Got the same impression.  It was almost as if your avatar didn't hit the ball, it just hit the "back" of the screen.  Hopefully it doesn't work that way on 2 player.

@theprof00

Well, duh.  We're supposed to blindly support a product that in every video so far has tracking and latency issues.  We can't critisize it whatsoever.  That would be hating on it.  Oh, it IS okay to take shots at Move, though. 

Anyone that starts playing something they never played before is considered a noob anyway.  It's a new game and no one isn't going to start off like a pro.

hey don't get angitatated by SELNOR,he is like this.you might too agitated and  get a ban.so don't anger urself because of him,

OP: first time 2 player,looking good hope they showed other games.

Although they could be saving for E3 and Halo will come too.

Well, it looked like a pointer based on the x-y position of the hand to me, even though it seemed to map a very wide real space to a small area of the screen around the virtual "joystick" used to select the play mode. Unless it's gesture-based with hand swipes, and the pointer gravitates toward the center by itself.

If I remember well from the specs it looked like it had not enough resolution (or you could multisample a lot, but get bad lag) to map a proper real-time pointer with pixel-scale accuracy, but it should be good enough for elements of GUIs like this.

It looked like the bolded to me.

And the XY accuracy of Natal is around 3mm at 2m away from camera, based on the PrimeSense specs.  This would of course change if the FOV of Natal is different from the PrimeSense specs.  3mm is quite enough to make a real-time pointer, but it would not be pixel perfect.  I probably couldn't hold my hand still enough for pixel perfect anyway, as even the slightest shake would be displayed :)

Also true. Amazing what one device can do!

It's really so short that I'm not sure about it being pointer or gesture based.

Anyway 3mm at 2m is the resolution of the camera. But the real resolution you could use for pointing with your hand would be the resolution of node positioning after the software processes the camera images to the 3d model. That's obviously quite a bit rougher, and we actually have some old numbers. I can't link to the original article, but didn't the main Natal dev talk to New Scientist about positioning limbs within a 4cm cube? That's probably the ballpark of your node resolution per frame.

Let's be optimistic and say that he meant a cube of 4 cm^3 volume and not a cube of 4cm per side. That would mean about 1.6cm linear resolution, ie if you map the screen to the position of your hand in a meter wide space, you get (1280/100)*1.6 pixel = about 20 pixel of error.

You can average n samples, of course, increasing the resolution by a sqr(n) factor, but adding lag for about n-1 frames. Thus you won't probably see anything better than 15pixels if we assume these are the numbers.