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I think Bill Gates mentioned this same "vision" earlier. Which sounds great, but then again so does 3-D holographic videoconferencing ("Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope"). In other words, it's great to dream about in some far-off future, but I doubt it's anywhere near realistic to think about it now.

"Set up cameras around the room?" Riiight.

Let's actually get voice recognition working to a level of acceptability before we start thinking about three-dimensional optical recognition, OK?

It will be several more generations of gaming consoles (at least) before we see anything like this actually work.]]>Dec 19th 2007 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
It is. With cameras, all you have to do is track movement (changes from frame to frame). This is relatively simple for a computer to do. With voice recognition, you have to determine what wave is the word "a" or the expression "eh?", once you decipher that, you have to combine that with the sentence structure to try to figure out what the person wants to do.

I have a PS3 with the Eye Toy and when I showed it to my friends and family, they all loved it right away. Even though the games are a little wonky to control, they all wanted more. Motion capture is here today. The next step is making it 3D, and that's pretty simple with just 2 cameras facing 90 degrees from each other on one side of the room. Add another camera and it gets that much more precise. Though, this takes processing power.]]>Dec 19th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
if the proposed system already has multiple cameras, taking that to the level of 3D videoconferencing shouldn't be too hard considering the game/software is already making a 3D model of you and your movements. taking that and making it into a 3d holograph can be done using multiple projectors as has been done before. http://www.eyeliner3d.com/

for the mass market in the near future, probably not. but very possible even with today's current technology.]]>Dec 19th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
if the proposed system already has multiple cameras, taking that to the level of 3D videoconferencing shouldn't be too hard considering the game/software is already making a 3D model of you and your movements. taking that and making it into a 3d holograph can be done using multiple projectors as has been done before. http://www.eyeliner3d.com/

for the mass market in the near future, probably not. but very possible even with today's current technology.]]>Dec 19th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
If Nintendo ever did this their cameras would binge disposable batteries in the manner their remotes currently do.]]>Dec 19th 2007 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
love,
The Grammar Police]]>Dec 19th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
Failing arms or not, the console makers are always going to want more power in their consoles regardless of controllers.]]>Dec 19th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
Sounds like a setup for Nextgen Big Brother. ]]>Dec 19th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
So you want to sit and play oldskool after a hard day at work, do you?
Get up tubby!]]>Dec 19th 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
The only place I'm arranging cameras "around the room" to use his words, is in the bedroom right before a one night stand.]]>Dec 19th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
And then think of the control scheme itself - this kinda gesture recognition is great for tennis and bowling but how do you play FPS with it, or action games. At the end of the day you just gotta have buttons - because for some things I'd rather rely on the quick reflexes of my fingers rather than on the somewhat slower reflex of my entire arm. Can you imagine pulling off Tekken combos using some sort of gesture recognition system?? Let the accidental eye poking and groin kicking begin.

That's not to say I'm against developing the system - but I wouldn't get too excited about. At the end of the day, whatever control scheme you use, it'll have its limitations and be better suited for certain types of interactions - and there will always be room for old style button-based controllers.]]>Dec 19th 2007 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
But yeah, agreeing with another comment, I do remember Bill Gates mentioning something about this, and specifically mentioning tennis, too.

For some reason, though, I don't see this turning out well. I mean, when they record player motions for sports games, you have to wear that ridiculous motion-capture suit, and that just records movement, it doesn't even have any commands attached to it. I'm not interested in looking like a Blue Man Group reject.]]>Dec 19th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/
Did you mean, more injuries, more broken bones?

Seriously, how would this be possible?]]>Dec 19th 2007 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 19th 2007 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/19/intel-foresees-less-controllers-more-flailing-arms-in-video-gam/Dec 20th 2007 1:28AM