Posts Tagged ‘motion control’
Project Natal’s implementation into older titles doable, but too tedious
If you were hoping to hop on some Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 and utilize Project Natal, your hopes and dreams may have just been smashed. Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda let us in on the bad news and said that while Project Natal devs were able to implement the control into titles such as Space Invaders Extreme and Beautiful Katamari it required a large portion of code to be modified.
So, this means that while it technically is possible to have games such as CoD 4 and Halo 3 work with Project Natal it would not be something the game’s developers would be able to do with a simple downlodable patch. I guess we’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope Bungies puts Project Natal to use in Halo: Reach.
Read (Destructoid)
Sony: “We’re Not Copying The Wii”
At E3 both Sony and Microsoft unveiled their own offerings in the grand world of motion sensing controllers. Microsoft’s Project Natal goes a different route than the Wii, utilizing a camera to track players movements and translate them into control inputs while Sony uses a wand device similar to the Wiimote. It didn’t exactly catch on, but Sony in some ways was first to the hit the motion sensing gameplay market with their Eyetoy.
Since their newest motion control device bears a striking similarity to Nintendo’s, they’ve come out to insist that they’ve been working on a wand device sine the original EyeToy. They released a video on Youtube of a tech demo made with the original EyeToy where they showcase some of the features that are now integrated into their new wand.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon puts Project Natal on display
The technology was just announced at E3 09 and already Microsoft is ready to put the technology to work on live TV on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Both Project Natal and the tech’s creative director Kudo Tsunoda made an appearance to show off the same two games that were featured during E3; a game where you have to smack balls at a wall brick breaker style and a modified version of Burnout Paradise.
Now, I don’t know about you guys but either Jimmy Fallon isn’t too good at video games or the technology is a bit glitchy. Both are completely plausible since the technology is still in at an extremely early stage.
Sony to debut motion controller at E3?
Sony is rumored to be showing off a motion controller for the PS3 at E3, according to Hollywood trade magazine Variety. Their sources claim that the new device will use LEDs to track motion, as it was revealed back in 2007 in a patent filing by Sony.
Sony has commented on the rumor as expected, saying “we do not comment on rumors” — the usual first step of denial. This year’s E3 is shaping up to be quite interesting.
Microsoft has also been rumored for a long time to release a similar controller.