Opinion: Is motion control really the future?

[mcryan]

Its going to be a while before developers doing anything spectacular with Natal, at first its going to be a whole lot a Wii-like fodder.

That is very correct. You can also look at where it has come from. The Eye Toy was absolutely terrible! It still gave me some fun in its day, but it was far from giving a long lasting game play experience. The Wii has done a great job improving it, and I certainly hope that Natal will do even more than the Wii, rather than just offer the same level of technology in a different package.

Is that the tennis game?

No, it is not a Tennis game. It is a typo.

[zombieZA]

... where you control games with your mind. And then people suddenly go to sitting dead still again... this time not even moving their fingers.

Naaaaaaaaaaaaice..... that would be so awesome!

[Azimuth]

I don't believe its the "waving your arms in the air" bit that going to get people excited its the interaction with the games and characters inside the game through the facial and voice recognition etc that is going to set this apart from other motion sensing technology.

Fiiiinally, someone else who realises there's more to it than all the jumping around stuff.

People can't seem to think past that, and I suppose the EyeToy and Wii are partly to blame. But nobody considers, for example, the possibility of streamlining dashboard control - Minority Report-style menus? Yes, please.

[Necuno]

and then the next big thing comes out... where you control games with your mind. And then people suddenly go to sitting dead still again... this time not even moving their fingers.

actually been 1 or two "development titles" where you could think left, right, up and down, but that was about it- played it once at old menlyn a long time ago. guess that never took up to greatly to become as the eye toy did.

want one (Emotiv's usb headset)?

The release date for the EPOC, their gaming-peripheral, is provisionally set for the fourth quarter of 2009[5], with a price tag of US$299[6]. For a comparison with the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator and other competing devices, see Comparison of Consumer Brain-Computer Interface Devices.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/e...-by-christmas/
http://www.mind-control.com/
the goog

the possibility of streamlining dashboard control - Minority Report-style menus? Yes, please.

example ?, like in motion sensing gloves for virtual menus ? cyber puk ?



damned it but these things comes to mind again (yes i know its not OP is not VR related just example to the motion glove)