Let Talk Project Natal

[bluestarultor]

I can't help but compare this to the Eye Toy. Seriously, motion capture isn't all that hard. We've had the technology in a gaming environment since at least the PS1 era, as I played with a contraption demonstrating it in the Arizona Science Museum in Phoenix as a kid. It was only 2D, but we really only have 2D vision, which our brains use other visual cues to interpret as 3D, anyway, which are incredibly well-known and can be put into a computer.

As for voice recognition, it's by no means perfect and you need to train it. How do I know this? Vista has it. It still sucks almost as hard as Hey You Pickachu. Again, the technology has been there for years, and it's nothing special.



Frankly, both technologies are old as dirt and neither of them are perfect. Computers are stupid. Unless you tell them in binary data exactly what to do, there will always be a margin of failure. This is the difference between typing and relying on handwriting recognition on a tablet. By hitting a key, you are sending a specific code signal that the computer doesn't have to guess at. By writing on the screen, you need to put it through software that reads the data, compares it to a base, and tries to make a guess without the benefit of human creativity or sensibilities. Computers can only work in absolutes, and some things are just in a gray area.