Sony has revealed impressive new software that allows the PS3 to precisely track the movements of a player's head without the need for them to wear any apparatus on their noggin.
The software uses the PlayStation Eye camera identify a gamer's head and accurately track its movement, and you don't have to slap space-age goggles, LED lights or any sort of machinery on your face. You need only to have a face.
The obvious application is being able to lean your head to look around corners in a first-person shooter, but it could also work wonders for boxing games. And if the tech is extended to accurately recognise hand (and maybe even finger) movement, who needs Wii Remotes?
While that might be a way off, the head tracking alone sounds ace. Sony hasn't released info on any titles that use the tech, but hopefully it will soon.
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
i just stumbled across a right hand drive interior view video of gt5 on youtube im happy now. just wanna play the damn thing lol
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
Yes that would be great imagine turn your head to the left and the screen shows the view from outside of the left window. OOps the only poroblem then is you can't see it because your looking left now and not at yout TV Doh!!!!!!!
problem is always gonna be if you use a fixed screen then you can't really turn your head - only look around in a limited fashion. Still sounds cool though.
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
Yes that would be great imagine turn your head to the left and the screen shows the view from outside of the left window. OOps the only poroblem then is you can't see it because your looking left now and not at yout TV Doh!!!!!!!
lol a very good point and a slight oversight on my part. however, if you could change sensitivity settings, so that a small turn of the head would be a larger turn on screen that would indeed work a treat. especially if you have a big widescreen to play with
Sounds good but how many of us will be able to sit perfectly still when we dont want to lean etc. I move about and look in different places etc when im playing, that would just cause problems for me.
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
Well... looking to your side will make seeing the actual tv-screen veeeeery difficult. So how about plugging your PS3 in 3 tv's.... ehm that would make the need for motion control to look to your side unnessesary. Maybe they'll find a way!
it's a shame the camera didn't come with ps3, that's why it won't get supported, there were rumours of this type of device shown by nintendo 6 - 7 months ago, and it will come with wii 2 as standard.
because the lack of support I won't get one, unless I decide to make little animation with it
Face tracking isnt new tech, this stuff been around for years, though kudos to sony for trying to bring it to the masses.
I did hear they were also using a microphone on top of the camera to help with the depth tracking and also for voice commands....anyone else heard anything about this.
Sounds like bobbins in novelty land to me. Sorry to sound all old and boring, but I really don't want to have waggle and wobble parts of my anatomy to play videogames.
I generally play games when I'm exhausted after work or chilling out on a weekend. If I need exercise I go out for a run. I really don't see the future of gaming in motion control. There's still the definitive issue of consistently tangible immersion resulting from these systems; something which has thus far proven elusive. Is a vague nod here, and a little waggle of the hand there really any more realistic than a control pad? Would you really feel like you were in a car, on a battlefield or in a boxing ring? I doubt it.
plus i'll get some use out of the ps eye i got for the woman at christmas lol. think they could update cod4 to implement it into this? and while im here, noone has confirmed or denied this question in the forum. but this thread will get some views so hopefully someone can answer here does anyone know if us in the UK will have right hand drive on gt5 prologue, ive only seen left hand drive on youtube so far thatd spoil it a bit for me. this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
The answer to your right hand drive question on GT5P is here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMIOjnL0E9Y
They said wonderful things about the eye toy but it was always a clumsy peice of kit. I don't think this will be much better. I prefer to have something physical to control my movement rather than sitting in position for the camera to guess. And i don't have much faith in SONY as innovation goes; tend to follow rather than lead.
Still it is interesting and will hold my judgement till i see more of it.
Sounds a bit like a desperate cry from Sony that they too have motion control sorted. Unless your point of view moved with your head i dont see much advantage it would give you, and think of how sore your neck would get twisting back and forth. It may be a novel way to lean around corners etc, how do you stop it when you just need to shift your ass on the seat quick.
this head motion sensing would be awesome in gt5 though, as you could turn your head to look out the side windows
Bloody hell! Now thats what I call innovation! Turning you're head a or tiliting your body! Your axample sounds more like a certain psp gimmick though.
LMAO my uni just spent about £2m (i think) on a new motion apture studio for us games design students, Its the size of a large room, its full of 8 ft tall cameras that are the size of a printer and you have to wear a ping pong ball suit to be seen by it, If sony manage to do something like that with just one camera there are gona be some p**sed off tekkies up here. In all seriousness tho, they cant have it that good just yet, like you guys say boxing and golfing and basketball will be a long way off.
here sony was good with the playstation 2 but the ps3 is absolutely crap and the new sensor will either be ripping off the wii ans in wii-fit with its motion sensor or it will be like the s**tty eye-toy when some 1 walks by behind you it f**ks up ur game
There seem to be alot of very uninformed people on here becasue really head tracking can be a very useful bit of technology. I shall send you to a link showing you why. Click Here
Its been covered by other people here, but as a dev I gotta get it off my chest...
WHAT? If I turn my head left I see a couch, not some zombie trying to eat my brains (that was last week, during the zombie apocalypse in new Jersey)..
In fact, I don't really look around much at all when I play games. My eyes shift, not so much my head. I suppose if I had like a 100 inch tv, this might be useful, but I'd likely be blind to boot
I won't say the technology isn't interesting, I'm just saying that they didn't think this one full through. It might be good for a minigame like soccer headbutts or maybe Bonk's Adventure 3D.
If they can master body movements for hands/arms/legs/feet, that could be far more interesting and actually useful... but with the existing patents, they have to be careful not to step on legal landmines.
There seem to be alot of very uninformed people on here becasue really head tracking can be a very useful bit of technology. I shall send you to a link showing you why. Click Here
Wow! no one else has commented on it but this vid had me amazed and the practical applications could be phenomenal! Also there is a feature on gamesradar about mind control in video games if anyones interested, its quite spectacular...
Its kind of..... restrictive isnt it? what if i decide to lean back during play? or scratch my balls?
Why dont they release those mini TV glasses i saw a while back. They had a tiny gyroscope inside and tracked your heads movement, i think they used them on a thrill ride in the states. Perfect for something like GT5 with the interior veiws. Maybe not so good for FPS, unless you had a free roaming, wii esq, aim reticule.
They said wonderful things about the eye toy but it was always a clumsy peice of kit. I don't think this will be much better. I prefer to have something physical to control my movement rather than sitting in position for the camera to guess. And i don't have much faith in SONY as innovation goes; tend to follow rather than lead.
Still it is interesting and will hold my judgement till i see more of it.
They tend to follow rather than lead do they? Have you ever heard of Buzz? But I suppose thats just a blatant ripoff of the 360s Scene It. Sony couldn't even bother to change the controller. Then we have Singstar, clearly another ripoff of the 360s ..........ehhhhhh? Sony had the party game genre owned last gen and I can see them doing it again when they decide to discontinue the PS2 and start releasing Buzz with wireless buzzers on the PS3 and when they start promoting Singstar Store and the Playstation Eye. There are plenty of wannabes out there and if they find out they can record and share their "singing" with others, they will do so in the hope of being 'discovered'.
They said wonderful things about the eye toy but it was always a clumsy peice of kit. I don't think this will be much better. I prefer to have something physical to control my movement rather than sitting in position for the camera to guess. And i don't have much faith in SONY as innovation goes; tend to follow rather than lead.
Still it is interesting and will hold my judgement till i see more of it.
yeah we all know how much microsoft 'innovates' they blatently ripped off the eyetoy with their own cam...ripped off buzz with scene it...its only a matter of time before they release a controller with motion sensing... (im mentioning microsoft due to your GT name and your lack off PSN name)
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thatd spoil it a bit for me.
