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[eerr]

Microsoft has recently revealed new Motion capture technology for the Xbox 360. This new technology, designed as a 1-up on the wii mote, Aims to capture the details of movement in the human body, for use in Xbox 360 games. The process uses cameras to capture Large amounts of data to generalize human movement with a fancy-pants machine learning algorithm. These movements can then be inferred by the 360 in realtime, with a real infrared camera. Microsoft states the system that tracks body movements can display a realtime image of the user's movements at 30 fps.


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=microsoft-project-natal

[Aqizzar]

Wasn't there already a thread about this?  A bunch of tinfoil haberdashery about Microsoft forcing fat people to use fat avatars in games.  But Microsoft putting down an anticipatory patent on some motion capture camera doesn't surprise me.

[Creamcorn]

Wasn't there already a thread about this?  A bunch of tinfoil haberdashery about Microsoft forcing fat people to use fat avatars in games.  But Microsoft putting down an anticipatory patent on some motion capture camera doesn't surprise me.

Ouch, that's harsh I'd feel worse if I were apart of either one of those two groups.

As for the topic itself, the only thing worth getting on an Xbox 360 is the Perfect Dark 64 upgrade; I can't play anymore on my N64 seeing as how I'm missing the memory thing that goes in the middle.

[G-Flex]

Wasn't there already a thread about this?  A bunch of tinfoil haberdashery about Microsoft forcing fat people to use fat avatars in games.

I could be wrong, but that sounds like it was a completely different patent altogether. It's possible that both patents are meant to be applied to the same technology, though.

[eerr]

Wasn't there already a thread about this?  A bunch of tinfoil haberdashery about Microsoft forcing fat people to use fat avatars in games.  But Microsoft putting down an anticipatory patent on some motion capture camera doesn't surprise me.

My title might have been misleading.
They designed and implemented a new technology. I inferred they had a patent for it. Which they do, otherwise making a competitor to the wii mote is useless.

[Apostolic Nihilist]

Natal's been announced for a while, actually.

http://www.xbox.com/en-ca/live/projectnatal/

It's more like the ultimate evolution of the PlayStation Eye rather than the Wiimote. I can't say that I'm particularly thrilled about it -- the uses seem limited.

It might help garner more support from the casual gamers, though. Its implementation seems to be better than the Wii.

[penguinofhonor]

It suffers even more from "you can't sit around and be lazy while gaming" than the Wii does. Though they're probably going to flaunt that as a feature.

[eerr]

It suffers even more from "you can't sit around and be lazy while gaming" than the Wii does. Though they're probably going to flaunt that as a feature.

[alway]

Precisely. It will go something like this:
"Hey guys, look at this! Now you can move while playing video games!"
*room immediately empties amid much shoving and trampling of slow people*

[Bricks]

I expected this to be a topic about androids.  I am very disappointed.

[Muz]

Combined with self-learning AI and a humanoid robot, it's one step closer to androids.