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theprof00 on 08 December 2009
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1



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dirkd2323 on 08 December 2009

I like it A lot, like Jim Carry says!



specialops787 on 08 December 2009
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. 



markers on 08 December 2009
specialops787 said:
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~



specialops787 on 08 December 2009
markers said:
specialops787 said:
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~

Oh shit. My bad. Glad you caught that glaring mistake. 



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markers on 08 December 2009
specialops787 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~

Oh shit. My bad. Glad you caught that glaring mistake. 

Ah no problem. Happens to the best of us, I was just in the right place at the right time.



theprof00 on 08 December 2009
markers said:
specialops787 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~

Oh shit. My bad. Glad you caught that glaring mistake. 

Ah no problem. Happens to the best of us, I was just in the right place at the right time.

Huh, I thought it said that the whole time.



markers on 08 December 2009
theprof00 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
theprof00 said:
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

I don't think the WM+ is 100% 1:1. I'll try to find some tech specs, but I think it's slightly less than 1:1

Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~

Oh shit. My bad. Glad you caught that glaring mistake. 

Ah no problem. Happens to the best of us, I was just in the right place at the right time.

Huh, I thought it said that the whole time.

It did /jedihandwavemindtrick



specialops787 on 08 December 2009
markers said:
theprof00 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
markers said:
specialops787 said:
Eh. Slightly less, then I don't care. We all know that the wand will obviously be better. Not because Sony is smarter, but because it was released later. with an awesomely kickass sexy looking ball attachment!

fixed~

Oh shit. My bad. Glad you caught that glaring mistake. 

Ah no problem. Happens to the best of us, I was just in the right place at the right time.

Huh, I thought it said that the whole time.

It did /jedihandwavemindtrick

I keep lawling everytime i re-read the correction.



WereKitten on 08 December 2009
specialops787 said:

The PS3 Wand and WM+ are both 1:1 motion tracking. The only thing that would make the wand better would be if it can actually track your position in 3D space, as in if you were closer to the TV or farther away etc, which it probably has to do. Otherwise if you were to do a stabbing motion it wouldn't be able to tell.

This has been said many times already: the Sony wand uses accelerometers and gyroscopes to track rotations just like the WM+, plus the sphere positioning and size read by the cam gives absolute positioning in space, whereas with the Wiimote you only get an indirect position reading when aiming with IR pointing.

Actually, 1:1 means nothing in terms of input devices when it comes to rotations as all you get from gyros and accelerometers are numbers indicating the accelerations and relative rotations. The absolute orientation of an in-game object can be kept close to that of the controller only through calculations (and a secondary input calibration), and as such 1:1 is mostly a software feature, not an hardware one. The best you can say is that by using gyros on top of accelerometers the wand and WM+ are accurate enough in the data they report that the software is able to keep 1:1 with much more swift and complicated rotations, where the accelerometers-only Wiimote could not cope.



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