When one new shiny piece of technology comes around, then there is always someone or some creators around the corner that are getting ready to pounce on it and create a newer and shinier piece, right. It's just the way it is.
I promised I would write about this but it's taken me awhile, longer than I hoped, to sit down and write it.
We all know about Wii and the remote sensor controllers they created. The best example is when playing Wii sports. The controller is not attached to the console and you're moving and working with the buttons on the controller at the same time.
Well, Xbox 360 (Microsoft), is definitely giving the Wii a run for it's technology.
Natal basically takes away the controller. So who is the controller? You are. Your body is the controller. Players will have the ability to manipulate on-screen characters via natural body movements. Think of the computer scientists and others that studied the actions of the body in order to create the sensors that this new game-playing technology uses.
Natal consists of a depth sensor that uses infrared signals to create a digital 3-D model of a player's body as it moves, a video camera that can pick fine details such as facial expressions and a microphone that can identify and locate individual voices.
Natal will be released towards the very end of 2010. Gee... I wonder how much it will cost.
I found this information in an article I read in this magazine called "the Scientific American".
If you want to see a short video clip of how Natal was designed and how it is intended to work, go to the following website http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=microsoft-project-natal
The name of the article: "Binary Body Double: Microsoft reveals the science behind project Natal for Xbox 360"
P.S. Don't ever get lazy with technology. You will be sorry. Just a heads up.
-a highly wired lady
No comments:
Post a Comment