Correction.
#2 is right. I do agree with #3 though.

I just don't think it will be applied well. That boxing game looked like it would be pretty fun. But unless MS is planning something like what Sony is planning with the Eye Toy, I just don't see how this is better then using a controller.

I thought the Eye Toy ran at 120 f/s Isn't that pretty good. Maybe it was just the programing that made it slow.

Anyone who thinks this is cool is dilluded.

This is essentially the same game that was on Eye toy on PS2 in like 2003. Except they moved the angle. This was done in Wii Sports and once again in Punch out.

Typical Microsoft. Never innovate, never create original products, just rip off other companies and steal their games. I dont know why people even buy their consoles and games. Oh yh I know why, AS ITS CHEAP!

I agree; wii boxing is better than what that looks (almost :)) I seriously hope microsoft has something aa little more advanced than this

....those saying it is crap is basing their opinion off of a video made almost 18 months ago on an incomplete application and hardware as opposed to seeing how it works NOW on a console with hardware specific gaming software?

Yea, nice one there, might as well say Mass Effect 2 sucks even though we have seen next to noting and we are probably a year from release or say that FF13 will be a turd even though it wont be out for about another year also.

Please, though I know this will fall on deaf ears, make a decision based on what will be shown in 2 weeks since they have had almost 18 months more to work on the device which means that it could be far and away better now then it was in January of 2008.

Also, dont start with the "microsoft is not innovated" as sony brings out things as well *cough* sixaxis *cough* with devices that is similar to what is already on the market before sony releases them. Might as well call microsoft not innovateive because they released a game console in the first place but you can say that as well as sony since nintendo and sega released consoles before sony so of course, they were copying and not being innovative. I swear, fanboys on both sides are retarded.

That camera probably doesn't exist in that form or developmental stage if Microsoft is really releasing first party motion sensing tech. Its probably a more advanced motion bar or strip with other sensors etc on it. I'm reading rumors of Full body motion.

You should know by now PS3 fans talk down anything related to the 360. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft is going to release the motion interface software they have mentioned wanting to do.

Relax, its the SDF hijacking another 360 thread on N4G.
Must be saturday.

Yes, the eye toy can do the same thing but better.
The reason it hasn't is because...

no answer?
If it could it would have.

Have you checked their website to see what this can do?
Its not going to replace the joypad and anyone who's trying to claim ms is trying to claim that must own a ps3.

Watch the gesture based control of windows, but I know the eye toy...
sony said so...
or didn't but some fanboy did.

It is impressive and the potential (if you own a sony product you must appreciate that as you live on "potential") for gaming is huge.

But of course hate it because its ms (then go on about how hating sony is stupid because why would you hate a company!?!) and then when sony copy announce it as the best thing ever.

I'm looking forward to this. For gaming its innovative, and we know how you like innovation (obviously i'm not talking to the ninty or 360 owners on here as its full of ps3 fanboys) but i'm sure you all own an eye toy and are playing...
erm,
that one with the cards and...
erm...

I'm glad I don't have a 360.

I played with this tech in an arcade ten years ago. Are we supposed to be dazzled? <YAWN>

I think fans and trolls are suppose to buy into the rumor Microsoft is going to announce motion soon for their platforms by showing the video. I'm guessing thats the point.

Uhh...everyone already has a motion sensing console. Why do they want another one?

I was never really in this kind of stuff, unless it was something that was integrated a small bit here and there in some games.

You're not the one selling Three Hundred thousand to Four hundred thousand consoles a month to an untapped up and coming casual market that is spreading like wildfire.

You also don't speak for the 40 to 50 million people that think its matrix/Minority Report/closer to Virtual reality/Health tool/family gaming fun futuristic sh*t.

Ohhh, your talking about the Wii. Right?

Indeed.

Huge market. The Wii broke the defacto video game mold because they have tapped into a new market while winning over the bulk of the casual demographic by releasing a product seen as the future with many benefits.
This new untapped demographic of non gamers(parents and the elderly etc) and the casual one is where the growth is at for any company. Hospitals, offices, retirement homes the list goes on.

Am not going to think this will replace the joypad anytime soon.

Granted I am sure the tech is lightyears better then the old sega octagon thingy (activator?) where you would stand inside it to punch and kick in genesis games but, until we get VR like a holodeck from Star Trek the joypad is not going anywhere anytime soon.

I am not bashing this as i think it could add to how games are played, like if you are a character who walks up to a computer console you can access the screen like you would if you were there or some other type functions which if done right could work really well.

Still, I found it funny a few days ago there was an article about sony's motion controller that had a mock up design that looked like the wii mote and PS3 fanboys were all over it mainly because it doesnt use IR like the wii and they claim it will revolutionise gaming and work better than the wii (which it very well could). Of course, these are the same ones that called the wii lame due to its control option yet once sony announces something similar, no one has a problem with it and thinks its a great idea.

Ah well, fantards of all 3 companies will always do this kind of crap, par for the course i guess.

WTF??????

Microsoft should develop games like uncharted 2 and not such a sh!t.. Thats a joke right? Who needs a f*cking 3D-camera?????

...microsoft make yet another Tomb Raider clone like Uncharted?

Because, games like Indiana Jones or games based on something like National Treasure will be ALWAYS FUN to play, instead of mindless 3rd person shooters with below average plot.

I think it looks pretty nice, it seems to work very well. Im sure Sony will announce something extremely similar at e3 with the eye toy- maybe an eye toy 3.0 or something. Eyepet and all those games they announced last year are bound to make an appearance.

Got to love how stupid the ps3 fanboy are its embarrassing to have to even call them human cause they are so stupid.

"Typical Microsoft. Never innovate, never create original products"

This fanboy is so stupid he cant seem to read more then the headline. MS doesnt make it the zcam 3DV does and they have nothing to do with MS at all. Fluid and MS using this tech is not more then a rumor. If you could read you know the 1st word in the article is "Rumors"

"I played with this tech in an arcade ten years ago. Are we supposed to be dazzled?"

Really you played with zcam 10 years ago ? Thats a nice trick seeing that its still in the development stage.

" Because Uncharted is better, than latest Tomb Raider games
Because, games like Indiana Jones or games based on something like National Treasure will be ALWAYS FUN to play, instead of mindless 3rd person shooters with below average plot."

So you're talking about how great uncharted is while trashing 3rd person shooters when uncharted is a 3rd person shooter.

meh, not impressed at all. i have the "been here done that" feeling while watching the clip. plus, holding your hands in the air where as for the wii you're actually holding a controller in your hand, this eye toy feels alittle bit lame.

microsoft copying Sony again? yes and water is wet

What gets me steamed is people who naturally assume Microsoft is incapable of being original... that they are doomed by destiny to fail at everything... that it's written in the stars. What a knuckle-headed approach to reality. You fail at rational thought if that's your approach to everything.

I don't quite think you understand everything this peripheral is doing, and if you aren't technically minded, you shouldn't pretend to know. It's mapping the subject in 3d space, rather than merely capturing motion in 2d space, like Eyetoy. If you want a comparison, Eyetoy and Xbox Live Vision are in the same class. All they could detect was the difference in contrast between the edge of your body and the hopefully white wall behind you.

This is COMPLETELY different from eyetoy, and if you can't recognize that, you've got anti-microsoft blinders on. If it uses infared as many sources suggest, lighting and contrast won't matter.

However, I'll be the first to admit I don't see many SOFTWARE applications beyond what Sony and Nintendo have done already. Boxing? Already done. Aerobics? Already done.

What REALLY needs to happen is some sort of application to first person shooters. Imagine this as a means to 3d headtracking-to-view control, like the Johnny Lee videos.

It really scares me that you kids are being bred with this blind adherence to the Sony label and hardly a one of you knows what you're talking about.