Whoever is running Sony’s PR these days is certainly on the ball, gone are the days of bizarre adverts featuring circus clowns. In a PSMove (aha!) entirely unrelated to the launch of Kinect, Sony have released a video celebrating the PS2 camera EyeToy. You know, the one that was out years ago which did full body tracking.
I’m sure the timing of this video is entirely coincendental and not related to the Kinect launch at all. Lets hear what Senior researcher and creatore of EyeToy, Richard Marks has to say:
‘We really wanted to explore new gaming possibilities so we tried different things where you use your body in different ways – some things using your head, some using your hands, ‘ he said.
As I said, the timing of this video is entirely coincedental.
‘It seemed that we kept running into kind of a limit to the kind of game experiences you could do with just your body.We had some really fun things you could do but they tended to be shallow and kind of mini-game like’ continues Richard.
Just a fluke Sony launched this video today, honest.
‘With EyeToy we had the ability to select buttons with just your hands and that was kind of neat and magical, but actually got kind of tiresome.,’
Coincedence. Pure coincedence.
‘What we discovered was that people liked some of the demos we had where you actually held something in your hand as it was tracking that more precisely. These experiences gave us more gameplay opportunities.’
Richard Marks are you trying to suggest body tracking system limits the types of games you can make?
‘The biggest advantages we get with PlayStation Move is that it can be tracked very precisely. Unlike trying to track somebody’s body – everyone’s body is a little bit different – the Move is exactly the same in every way. It also works in the dark perfectly, and we’ve got sensors inside the move that gives us more precision.’
Source: US PS Blog
Charmed_Fanatic
hahaha got to love Sony for this :P
Quinlank
Not like they’re wrong about it or anything, it’s an extremely limited piece of hardware, a point rammed home nicely by Ars Technica today I believe, who said as much in their review.
Cort
I presume you refer to Ben Kuchera’s review posted early this morning (UK time)? The most considered piece of review journalism I’ve read in a long while.
The more I read about Kinect, the more I understand why Marks abandoned body tracking and instead came up with the Move controller.
Shadow0410
Fair play Sony! I am not overly impressed with Kinect anyway it’s alright I guess but not for me thank you very much.
stueeeee
The Kinect will end up with limitations, with some already coming to light about how tall u need to be and the amount of space u need. Sony may have mixed the wii interface with their camera but it’s far more accurate than either of Ninty and MS devices. I’m not a fanboy but Sony looks to have more ‘proper’ games coming rather than more family and party games coming.