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rakugakist on 16 August 2010
Icyedge said:
rakugakist said:

Because the navi doesn't have a giant glowing ball sticking off the end of it and that giant glowing ball is what the eye tracks 1:1?  Just a guess.


We know it tracks the glowing ball. We was wandering why it wouldnt use a chip like sysaxis in it.


Oh, I don't know.  Cause Sony wants more money?



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unknown_soul89 on 16 August 2010
A Bad Clown said:
Icyedge said:
theprof00 said:

@OP: because you touch yourself at night.

OT: In the KB video showing a guy playing socom, it showed him throwing a grenade in a throwing motion using the navi.

 

Its possible it was using the cam to detect the movement of the left arm.

The Eye does have some motion tracking, so I guess it'd work for simple things such as thrusting. That would explain why the guys on the fighting game and the sports use the Wands instead.

more likely it has a sixaxis in it like the ps3 controller that can tell when your moving it 



rakugakist on 16 August 2010

Or less money, if you can use an existing sixaxis instead.  I don't really care.  I'm not into motion controls, but I actually had the same question myself, just not involving sixaxis compatibility, but total Move/Eye compatibility.



unknown_soul89 on 16 August 2010
rakugakist said:
A Bad Clown said:
rakugakist said:

Because the navi doesn't have a giant glowing ball sticking off the end of it and that giant glowing ball is what the eye tracks 1:1?  Just a guess.


The question is "Why didn't they include some form of motion".


Well, as you said earlier, the eye does have some rudimentary levels of tracking, so it will have some form of motion, just not 1:1 or whatever.  Maybe they just didn't want to stick an ugly glowing ball on it? 

it has trouble with depth not 1:1



Icyedge on 16 August 2010
unknown_soul89 said:
A Bad Clown said:
Icyedge said:
theprof00 said:

@OP: because you touch yourself at night.

OT: In the KB video showing a guy playing socom, it showed him throwing a grenade in a throwing motion using the navi.

 

Its possible it was using the cam to detect the movement of the left arm.

The Eye does have some motion tracking, so I guess it'd work for simple things such as thrusting. That would explain why the guys on the fighting game and the sports use the Wands instead.

more likely it has a sixaxis in it like the ps3 controller that can tell when your moving it 

Would be nice.



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Doobie_wop on 17 August 2010

A couple of podcasts (Giant Bomb and Sarcastic Gamer) have mentioned that the camera is used to track the other hand sometimes. I think someone said that the archery game was used with one Move wand, because you just use your left hand to pull back the bow which is picked up by the camera. That's a maybe though, I'm not sure, I'll have to go back and listen.



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unknown_soul89 on 17 August 2010
KylieDog said:
-Newcloud- said:

thank god someone else noticed this, its going to cost us more for 2 move controls and this nav control they should of just made a move control with a analog stick. what if a dev wants to make a game like zelda because using the bow requires 2 motion contols 1 to aim and the other to pull back the string... i hope sony know what there doing :/


Twilight Princess bow scheme was more practical.

 

"Hey we have this pointer technology, it lets you point."

"Hey, you point the arrow when aiming a bow, maybe we could make a link between the two"

"Yeah lets not use the pointer and instead hold the device vertically, making everything more awkward"

dude thats how you hold a bow vertically



unknown_soul89 on 17 August 2010
KylieDog said:
unknown_soul89 said:
KylieDog said:
-Newcloud- said:

thank god someone else noticed this, its going to cost us more for 2 move controls and this nav control they should of just made a move control with a analog stick. what if a dev wants to make a game like zelda because using the bow requires 2 motion contols 1 to aim and the other to pull back the string... i hope sony know what there doing :/


Twilight Princess bow scheme was more practical.

 

"Hey we have this pointer technology, it lets you point."

"Hey, you point the arrow when aiming a bow, maybe we could make a link between the two"

"Yeah lets not use the pointer and instead hold the device vertically, making everything more awkward"

dude thats how you hold a bow vertically


Its not a bow though, it s a game and TP pointer controls were more practical.

pressing a button and winning the game would be most practical 



Rafux on 17 August 2010

I wonder how will it work in games like the Gladiator Arena they show when you control the shield with a PS move in the left hand and the sword with a move in the right hand but how do you move your character? I mean how do you make your chararcter walk straight or back?



hentai_11 on 17 August 2010
Grimes said:

It's possible that a patent prevents them from releasing it.

I also believe it could be this. If Sony copied the Wii-Nunchuk they would probably get sued.

It already happened. With wireless nunchuks. Here is a link:

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/wii/nintendo-sues-nyko-over-kama-wireless-nunchuks.html