Hate to say it, but I agree. This should have been released in april.
The tech problems to be overcome are _phenomenal_ as we discovered when trying to get Air Guitar to work well.
It's possible, but I'd give it another three yers before the first glimmerings actually hit consumer price points, and 5 before it's close to being mass user tech.
I'm pretty sure the tech they are using uses a modulated IR lamp and an IR camera to generate a reasonable stable and accurate distance field... I saw this tech at GDC a couple of years ago and I think the company demoing it was acquired by MS... (They use exactly the same PR line the company was using)
Anyway, to me, this information and the fact that it also has regular color camera's running on dedicated hardware at high speed means that they might be able to get around a lot of the issues...
Yep, I'm with everyone else on the skepticism. If it works, though, it'll be an absolute revolution.
(Apart from anything else, imagine a future where you can tell the serious gamers because they're the incredibly fit-looking people, having spent 10 hours a day for the past year battering monsters in WoW 2...)
Heh! I for one welcome our our new buff gamer overlords!
I think that your comment is actually spot on. Gamers in the future are going to be fitter than most of their non-gamer counterparts... This is actually already the case for those people who get hooked on Dance Dance Revolution. :)
That looks VERY cool, but I am skeptical as to whether they can pull it off. Although if anyone has enough resources to throw at solving the various machine vision problems, MS does.
Ahh, recreational tire changing... the pinnacle of modern society.
(Seriously though, I do think this video is good "food for thought" to make people aware of new possibilities and push their ideas in new directions.)
Do you suppose people have stronger arms in the future? Just wait 'til we have haptic technology and you need to ask your friend for help moving 850TB of data over the weekend.
The tire changing thing was definitely the lamest idea EVAR. They must have had a special meeting to see who could come up with the stupidest use of such technology...
Definitely good food for thought. The fighting game example struck me as the most plausible one that they presented. How far they can go really depends on how clean and reliable the motion tracking data they are extracting is...
I think that cairmen's comment above is actually spot on (check it out). Gamers in the future are going to be fitter than most of their non-gamer counterparts... This is actually already the case for those people who get hooked on Dance Dance Revolution. :)
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The tech problems to be overcome are _phenomenal_ as we discovered when trying to get Air Guitar to work well.
It's possible, but I'd give it another three yers before the first glimmerings actually hit consumer price points, and 5 before it's close to being mass user tech.
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Anyway, to me, this information and the fact that it also has regular color camera's running on dedicated hardware at high speed means that they might be able to get around a lot of the issues...
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(Apart from anything else, imagine a future where you can tell the serious gamers because they're the incredibly fit-looking people, having spent 10 hours a day for the past year battering monsters in WoW 2...)
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I think that your comment is actually spot on. Gamers in the future are going to be fitter than most of their non-gamer counterparts... This is actually already the case for those people who get hooked on Dance Dance Revolution. :)
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Ahh, recreational tire changing... the pinnacle of modern society.
(Seriously though, I do think this video is good "food for thought" to make people aware of new possibilities and push their ideas in new directions.)
Do you suppose people have stronger arms in the future? Just wait 'til we have haptic technology and you need to ask your friend for help moving 850TB of data over the weekend.
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Definitely good food for thought. The fighting game example struck me as the most plausible one that they presented. How far they can go really depends on how clean and reliable the motion tracking data they are extracting is...
I think that cairmen's comment above is actually spot on (check it out). Gamers in the future are going to be fitter than most of their non-gamer counterparts... This is actually already the case for those people who get hooked on Dance Dance Revolution. :)
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