Hell Yeah!
I remember when I first watched the movie “Minority Report” I was enthralled once Tom Cruise started to manipulate the various screens in his office. Moving them, enlarging them, and freely using them with only a few flicks of his hands for some reason left me in nerd awe. So you can imagine I was nothing less than giddy when I saw this tech demo of Playstation’s MOVE. MOVE is basically Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii, enabling gamers different ways of controlling their video games besides the controller. Now while the “Wand” looks rather unattractive and generic, what they do with it looks just like what Cruise did. *Using the screens, not going insane.* Enjoy
That is freakin AWESOME. So I can buy this at Toys R Us right?
Isn’t this just a step down from Microsoft’s Project Natal for the 360? Don’t get me wrong, I want Sony to come out with something that gets me excited… but I’m just not seeing anything new here?
Does anyone have any more details about this that may help improve my first impression?
“Does anyone have any more details about this that may help improve my first impression?”
I really don’t think anyone cares enough to look up details to improve your impression. Look it up yourself.
That glowing ball represents one of those LEDs on Tom’s finger tips.
The future of gaming is within our grasp come November 2010!
playstation move is horrible in comparison to microsoft natal. you want minority report? this is how you do it.
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
oh and if you really want the gloves too….
http://gizmodo.com/5090366/g+speak-minority-report-gesture-ui-actually-made-by-minority-report-designer
Do you not know about Project Natal for 360? I mean it could do the same thing without using any remote whatsoever which is more minority-report-like.
Can you say Sony fanboi?
Comparing the Sony move to minority report when the natal exists just comes accross as either uninformed, biased or paid comment.
Get a clue!
natal 360 is just a concept. theres no live demos, like microsoft courier. of course it seems awesome, but theres no working product yet like ps3 move…
There are plenty of demos, user reviews and showpieces of Natal, just Google them… It’s far away from concept and has a release date near to Move. The only thing better with Move is the possibilty of buttons, but I see no problem in giving the player something to hold on and push if neccessary in Natal.
After E3 and Gamescom reporters were able to use it and mostly have been absolutely excited about it.
Ummm…Minority Report didn’t use a peripheral…the dude just waved his hands in the air. Exactly like Xbox360 NATAL.
To the guy who thinks NATAL is just concept, I guess you don’t watch Jimmy Falon Latenight, do you?
obviously the difference between the Move and the Wii is the 1 to 1 motion relationship with the move vs. the many to 1 with Wii. Basically with a Wii you can do many different controller movements that all equal the same move in the game. Wii motion plus is an improvement on this but still doesn’t capture the 3rd dimension of movement, which the Move does capture. I haven’t seen enough of Natal to fully understand how it will function but I can only presume it will be 1:1 also. I have seen demos but nothing that explains the technology fully enough to understand how it will totally work.
@The Dude, and Hanz: This is way ahead of Natal. Did you not see him holding and flexing the image as if it was a bendable sheet of plastic? You can’t do that with Natal. Natal only sees positioning in 3D coordinates, it does not see “angles”. Natal can’t know that your hand is being rotated at specific angles, only where it is in 3D space. Here, with Move, they detect the balls in the same way that Natal does, with the addition of full angle detection of the “wands”.
The only thing Natal has over this is full body detecting, and multiple player detection (though maybe Move also can do multiple players), but people will be playing only so many games where you’re flailing around to hit stuff before they get sick of the Natal gimmick.
I’m impressed. (For the record, I own a Wii and a 360. I do not own a PS3)
@Arby – Seriously, get a clue. I’m a game developer and I can tell you that the entire natal concept is based on a skeletal structure of your entire body. Sure this is interpreted from 3d dot representations, but the end result is ANGLES of BONES passed back as a HIERARCHY that represents the human body.
Fricken Sony fanbois and their deluded world view need to learn about technology and its implementation. (Yeah, I read you own a Wii and a 360… I call bull)
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We had the minority report technology a long time before the PS3 MOVE.