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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:16:36 +0000

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By: Raen

Raen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:48:46 +0000

You don’t HAVE to hold anything with Natal. We haven’t seen anything that says you CAN’T hold anything. Big difference. Of course it may just be that there isn’t enough info to tell.

By: El_Diablo_Guapo

El_Diablo_Guapo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:13 +0000

Good stuff, I liked those Youtube vids, very interesting!

By: Rob92

Rob92 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:23:47 +0000

Interesting!

I just sorta want to see it in action now and see some games using it! What about that modracers one for racers? Talk about a Mario Kart beater! Casual gamers would go mad

By: Rob92

Rob92 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:22:11 +0000

so a plate could become a steering wheel with natal? Swear with Natal you dont hold anything. I guess Sony are going for physcially holding something is better.

By: BalramRules

BalramRules — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:04:53 +0000

I personally think Sony are doing better than Microsoft at the moment : )

By: Alex_Assassin_08

Alex_Assassin_08 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:53:45 +0000

trust us, no.

By: Timesh1993

Timesh1993 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:59 +0000

Sony’s new ideas FTL!

By: Raen

Raen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:51 +0000

Well my point is with Natal, at least in principle, you wouldn’t even need to scan the object. As it’s using your body for the reference rather than an object you could be holding anything and it could still work. Of course it may present issues with recognising players.

Finally MS already showed scanning objects into the game world (the skateboard in the demo video), so it remains to be seen whether or not they have anything planned in this area.

By: YOURMUMANDME

YOURMUMANDME — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:29:40 +0000

I think the U shaped device , from what I can see , stands for ‘universal’ object .
I think this may just be a patent , there’s no reason to say that this is going into production , which ( @Raen ) I think could be to atop Microsoft developing Natal any further in that direction . Even foul play is fair play in the world of business !

By: YOURMUMANDME

YOURMUMANDME — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:24:15 +0000

lol

By: Amphlett

Amphlett — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:39:26 +0000

Magic Wand or no Magic Wand, I don’t care! I bought the PSEye well over a year ago and have hardly used it (Eye Create and Burnout – hardly a great list of uses).
I saw the top-down tank battles demo about a year ago and held my breath for a quick and cheap version coming out on the PSN. I turned blue and eventually had to exhale.

So yes, I am looking forward to this new development coming along and blowing some life in to my PSEye. Who knows, EyePet might prove to be more than just a fancy tech demo.

By: X_Yoshy_X

X_Yoshy_X — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:18:55 +0000

but u do if its interacting with the i pet??….

By: Raen

Raen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:03:06 +0000

In principle couldn’t you do the same thing with Natal? I mean you don’t even need to actually scan the object, it would just be a real world reference that gets translated.

By: fid

fid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:45 +0000

My poor light fixtures

By: matty

matty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:49:09 +0000

good find

By: Uhyve

Uhyve — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:41:23 +0000

You kind of see them scanning stuff for use as a control in this really old video for the original eyetoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpNdkm9s8AY&feature=fvst

Plus there’s this cool tech demo for the PlayStation Eye where they scan stuff into the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXJPok3NZEk&feature=channel_page

By: crestfaller

crestfaller — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:31:15 +0000

lol.

By: DarthSharkey

DarthSharkey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:25:44 +0000

Yes I would love a Glasgow simulator.
Coming out the Catty or the Garage and being molested with “awrite mate, want ay tap us a fag” then “naw, whit ye meen naw, al dae yi in ya dobber” then you can smack them with a Sky remote or something.

By: elpabl79

elpabl79 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:12:43 +0000

It already sounds like a Geordie device