Sony patent shows everyday objects used with motion control system |
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According to Siliconera, the patent details a system where any three-dimensional object can be mapped by a camera for use in a video game. Say for example you're playing a driving game. You can map in a plate, your shoe, heck maybe even a severed head and use it as a steering wheel. The mapping part is explained in the second and third images below:
The patent also includes some examples of how the tech can be used. In the first image below, a U-shaped object is used to simulate some sort of lightsaber-like sword. When the object is pointing upwards the sword is on and it turns off when the object is pointed down. Other examples mostly deal with usage in sports games.
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Ight looks like Im gona have to invest in a baseball bat
so i could play gran turismo with my shoe.... haha
i WANNA DO THAT.
So its like everyone said, Natal is an eyetoy. Thats really groundbreaking microsoft. Only about 6 years behind.
http://www.camspace.com/
AHEM..
I beta tested for that.
If kids can destroy TV's and break their bodies with plastic bats and fake objects I want to see how much damage they can do with real bats!
That camspace thing works via 2D data only, like the EyeToy, whereas the PS3 and PlaystationEye can detect depth and therefore 3D data...
If you're talking about the accidents with the wii, that was mostly old people and adult women wasn't it?
If you think about how they drive it makes sense too.
and by that logic, I wonder how much damage it would be if it was an asian woman.
There were plenty of accidents with the wii once ppl found out they could try 2 sue. lol hints the wii safety vid. wasn't there who caught her in the celling or the lol the baby that hits its head on the table play tennis youtube it lol
so much to Natal.....
Just epic lol
I own the playstation eye, and it is not possible for it to measure depth acurately....
It could measure a "default" size for an object and track whether it gets bigger and smaller....but this would be far from accurate.
In order to give a computer (ie 360/ps3) a real 3D view of the world, you need 2 cameras....plain and simple. (it's called stereo photography, google it, i'm not explaining it to you)
The Natal is basically two eye toys.....
what this patent is showing is that PS3 can scan in a shape and then create different responses within the game depending on the orientation of that shape. Ie...if the "U" is pointed up, your lightsaber is extended, if it is pointing down, it's not extended.....
I just played with the camspace program for awhile.
It seems to be the same concept Sony is working off......map an object you want to be your controller....than it keeps track of how you are moving it. Same concept, and as you can see, camspace cannot track 3D movement....
no one is using real bats...
If you look at the picture it says "real world" and "game world" in the "real" world you are using a dualshock, which translates to a bat in the "game" world....
i like the one where dude smashes his hand off the ceiling light and tares his hand up.
i can't wait for videos involving a ps3
lets put it this way, MS had a fancy well rehearsed video for natal, and lets face it, with videos you can sugarcoat anything, due to editing. We will see what both systems are really like soon enough!