It's safe to assume we all prefer a standard controller, thought I'd get that out before anything, I know there are many antagonistic poster on y2. Onto the specs.
- Detects Facial recognition and Emotion
- Detects Voice recognition
- Detects 3D space (unlike the wiimote)
- Able to detect 4 players individually for local multiplayer
- No killer app announced yet (I suspect RARE is working on this)
- Detects objects and can paste them on screen
- Compatible with all 360's (guess it doesn't need to install anything [arcade units], considering Windows Speech recognition server is 1.7gigs)
- Is streamlined onto the 360 dashboard (safe to assume you can use it system wide)
Here is a video clip of it from last year, before Microsoft picked up the technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/k_V2AFaerKo.swf
This is a promotional video clip, displays most of the technologies features.
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/oACt9R9z37U.swf
Project Miro, something P.M worked on for the past few months. This clip shows what a real developer can do with some effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/M9nuwsQ5nF4.swf
Paint application tech demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ie02k3eAvxY.swf
Some select few journalists were invited to actually try the technology, IGN was the first up.
The camera is not just about
1:1 motion control, we were shown just that one possibility of this tech - check out what the camera picks up in 3D using it's scanner, in real time.
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What do you guys think? As mentioned before I still prefer a standard controller for the standard games but I'm excited for this. From what I've seen & read, I'm convinced this works as unveiled at e3. It's true motion technology without the need of a waggle stick - though Microsoft can easily introduce one. I like how the camera fluidly & accurately picks up body movement. Fingers, hands, legs, head, color, distance, shapes, objects, gestures and emotions - it looks like it picks it all up. Rare was absent from this e3, I'm 100% they're the studio that's working on the
killer app that will launch with this camera.