There's also a video at (at least) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8077369.stm
That was in fact a bit disappointing, from a controller perspective, as it didn't demonstrate much at all whether it works for doing something at least a little bit exact, or identifying variations in larger movements -- the company that MS bought boasted about being able to recognize golf swings, but this video features nothing such. The only situation with game like controlling is a 2d setting where making ripples to water, which is in fact essentially identical to almost the first thing our company did early on in 2003, as an installation to the local science center using an open source linux only machine vision toy called EffectTV (nowadays it's there as a Gephex plugin, which works on windows and mac too .. has things like making a fire or ripple effect where the camera sees movement, pretty simple). It does feature nice character animation, and I guess a combination of clever AI and narrative scripting. And manages to recognize at least the gestures it is perhaps expecting based on the script .. hard to tell from such a preview demo video, as always. ~Toni On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Gustavo Alberto Navarro Bilbao wrote: > The correct link is: > http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/microsoft-natal-will- > replace-controller-604259 > > Interesante, muy interesante. > > /////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > 2009/6/2 Toni Alatalo <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, >> >> am quite looking forward to trying these kinds of UIs out, dunno if >> Rex >> could be a partner for this particular tech .. to make a xbox build of >> the viewer supporting this, perhaps :o . i think this is resulting >> from >> MS recently buying one machine vision based game UI company, don't >> recall the name of that. of course similar open source solutions would >> be great .. don't know how far CV or perhaps that Animata 2d >> puppeteering thing that mentioned earlier could get us now. of course >> EyeToy has been this for long, but seemed that the company MS bought >> had pushed the precision and sophistication of the camera based pose / >> gesture recognition further. >> >> --- >> http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/microsoft-natal-will- >> replace-controller-604259 --- >> >> Microsoft has made a bold play by announcing a 'controller free' Xbox >> experience called 'Project Natal' using full body motion capture and >> voice recognition offering a jaw-dropping concpet of the future. >> >> Natal, which will work with all current Xbox 360s, is a revolutionary >> 3D motion sensor that incorporates voice recognition, ending what >> Microsoft termed 'the barrier of the controller.' >> >> Steven Spielberg was on stage to support the project – which was not >> given a launch date. >> >> --- end --- >> >> ~Toni >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
