Project Natal - All hype, no inovation?

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Why is it that whenever anyone criticises the Xbox 360 or PS3, they're immediately and automatically dismissed as a "fanboy" of the other console? :|

Because crap like this usually is written by fanboys and clearly the writer has done little or no research into the subject matter, so he falls back on the age old console bashing method.

Hardware specs and differences aside, Natal is a motion control technology that uses a camera to provide positional data.

NATAL does not actually a camera in the strictest sense:

Project Natal” sensor.The “Project Natal” sensor tracks full-body movement and individual voices , creating controller-free fun and social entertainment available only on Xbox 360.

RGB camera.“Project Natal” has a video camera that delivers the three basic color components. As part of the “Project Natal” sensor, the RGB camera helps enable facial recognition and more.

Depth sensor. An infrared projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor allows “Project Natal” to see the room in 3-D (as opposed to inferring the room from a 2-D image) under any lighting conditions.

Multiarray microphone. “Project Natal” has a microphone that will be able to locate voices by sound and extract ambient noise. The multiarray microphone will enable headset-free Xbox LIVE party chat and more.

http://www.dreamstation.cc/news/news...ox-360-details

So its a combination of a Sensor/Camera/Depth sensor and microphone, not just a simple camera like the eyetoy.

That's not something new.

Well no one else has done this so its pretty new. Depth sensing/motion sensing and voice recognition everything in one package.

Also, it's an opinion article. It doesn't have to be objective.

A good writer researches and studies the topic thoroughly before forming a opinion, and usually he tries to be unbiased as possible. If a article is not objective and only service to slander something then its not writing anymore but crap.