PsicloneX said:
you know what? i have read this thread and i have noticed alot of naysayers in here claiming that natal is a fraud and that microsoft and company are being deceptive. i have taken names and will make a thread about these post when natal is released i see microsoft as being very aggressive about being in the game and will deliver on their natal promise. by the way to the naysayers what is natal no doing that microsoft said i would?voice rec,motion detection, it does all of these so what is the problem is it personal for some people. |
Microsoft's Natal project merely looks different to anyone with expertise in computer vision, etc. than it does to the general public. Also, their promotional video, shown at the E3 conference, shows several people sitting on the same couch, etc. "using" the would-be system flawlessly, whereas none of their demos actually demonstrated the capability of the system to distinguish between multiple persons in the Natal systems field of view, etc. That alone is an incredibly difficult problem, and to pass it off in a promo video as something the system is intend to address, and then not having even a rudimentary demo to show of it is... pretty much unacceptable.
Natal itself is an honest project, and a worthy research effort. I think the "problem" people have with it is that MS was pretty clearly trying to place it as something it wasn't -- some sort of family/friend get-together-and-play with a wide variety of uses and the reliability of proven systems like the Wii's controller setup. I would say that borders very closely on false advertising, and that's not cool.
I personally wish the Natal project the best, however -- I'd love to see such a system take off, and I'd be very interested to learn about their techniques, if they truly are revolutionary. Microsoft's attempted placement of the project, as a carrot to keep the 360 in the motion control race, is a little seedy, however.
