PS3’s Are Motion Sensing At GameStop
July 3rd, 2006 by Darren Stevens in Offbeat, PlayStation 3
Online game retailer GameStop apparently doesn’t know much about the upcoming PS3 controller. They claim it’s “motion sensitive”, when in fact it only has a tilt sensor. Bad product information or clever misleading marketing? Hurry and see for yourself before they remove it and blame it all on an intern.
Moition sensing, what? (GameStop.com) [Thanks, Ron]
Tags: Offbeat, PlayStation 3
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
It’s not just tilt, is it? It can sense movement in “local coordinates” as well, I think.
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Nope, just tilt, 6 degrees of tilt (up/down - left/right - font/back)
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:28 pm
it has 3-axis tilt sensing plus it can sense the acceleration along those three axis… that’s why they call it “6 degrees of freedom”… even though there are only 3 spatial dimensions… so motion-sensing is right
what they lack is absolute positioning so you could point to the screen… thats what the sensor-strip is for on the wii…
August 18th, 2006 at 4:52 am
haha! gosh im watering gosh reading alot of comments sony just get worse lol how can anyone believe what they say tilt lmao sounds like summut of pinball lol oh go drink a red bull or summut sony it’ll give you wings please fly up into the air then let it wear off so you fall down with a huge bang because thats what your ps3 is going to do crash and burn bit like the busted song
March 14th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Surely tilting something is a form of motion?
motion = movement right?
So someone please explain how you can tilt anything without making any form of motion?