That's only 1 survey, and it could have been skewed by many variables.
There's "gamers", and then there's people who "play games".
Gamers are people who spend a good amount of hours playing games almost every day. And people who "play games" are people who might own a Wii or something, and will play the odd game every now and then.
This survey asked if people "play games". So it doesn't entirely reflect the online gaming ...
Sure not new, but not useful? O_o
Speech recognition is very much useful, as it can put a whole new level of interaction into games, allowing you to become the character in a game at an even deeper level. Imagine being able to roam through a city and actually ask NPC's questions to help you on your mission, or if your looking to buy something. Or say in a game like Mass Effect, being able to command individual characters in your squad through voice. Voice recognition will have a ...
@myothercar: No, the Z-Cam cannot see color. IT USES A MONOCHROME SENSOR that receives infrared light, it doesn't receive light from other spectrum's that would be needed to produce color. The part in the video your talking about is of them using the Eyetoy along with the Z-Cam. So essential they did have Natal like system back then.
And yes, of course software with the Eyetoy can do guess's based on the images it's seeing. But it's still always going to be a guess based on varia...
It's exploitation as much as showing fast food commercials on TV is to obese people.
@myothercar: I didn't say the Z-Cam couldn't do video. I said it couldn't see color. The Z-Cam uses a monochrome sensor.
And again, this is the "alone" point I was trying to make. Alone Z-Cam isn't good enough. But that doesn't mean you can't use it along side with motion sensitive controllers and a color camera.
It all comes down to the fact that's it better to have the Z-Cam, then to not have it. As it can enhance any kind of motion tracking your trying to ...
@sinncross: Did you not read the part where it said "alone"?
Alone yes, it's not good enough, because it only calculates depth, but doesn't see color. If Sony had thought to match it up with their Eyetoy, they would have had an early Natal.
Watch at 1:00:30 into the video, it shows the video stream from the ZCam, you can see how detailed it is and how if it was paired with a color camera like in Natal, you then have a perfect motion tracking system.
Yeah, you won't start seeing too many good DX11 games for at least a few months after the cards come out. So your fine until around the beginning of 2010. By then the DX11 cards prices will have dropped also.
Fail argument is fail.
I only have to upgrade my PC as much as you have to upgrade your console. As in, I don't. A person only upgrades their parts if they want to get better graphics then they can currently achieve. It's merely having the choice to do so. This is a choice you do not have with Consoles, you must wait years for a new console that can play games with better graphics.
@DeadlyFire: The new features of DirectX11 won't work on DX9/10 cards. But you will be able to play DX11 games with them still, but you'll only be able to use the DX10 or DX9 feature of DX11. So there won't be any change unless you upgrade to a DX11 card.
@Raf1k1: Yes wait. It's only a few months away, and you'll be happy you spent money on the next gen, and not this gen.
Larabee is Intel's first attempt at making a real performance GPU. It will be joined with the CPU, which will drive down latency and increase bandwidth. It rumored to be around the performance of a GTX 260/280. But by the time it comes out, Nvidia and ATI will already of had their next generation cards out, which are MUCH more powerful then the current ones.
They have already adopted 40nm, so there's no tight schedule on the manufacturing front.
Both ATI and Nvidia already have their test chips taped out, with ATI already showing theirs off at Computex a couple weeks ago.
So I have no doubt they will both have their new generation cards out around the same time as Windows 7.
Plus there's the huge market share of people Apple ditched by no longer supporting PowerPC processors in Snow Leopard. They are forced to buy a whole now Mac computer, or stick with their old hardware and OS.
I realize that, but If you compare it's chip size to that of say a GTX 260, it's less then 1/6 the size. So that's more than 6x as many chips per wafer. And the manufacturing cost is the bottom line, it's easily calculable so you can then extrapolate an average price range for the chip based on a companies general profit margins. GeForce chips take a ton of R&D cost also. That's why comparing chip size is a good way of guessing a price range. As it's the only real exact thing.
Well the actual Tegra chip is quite small, which is what decides the majority of a chip's manufacture cost. The more of them you can fit on a wafer, the cheaper they are. I would estimate under $35 dollar manufacture cost per chip.
The rest of the stuff on the PCB is pretty cheap, other than the 2 dense RAM chips that allow it such small form factor.
Yeah, the Tegra Platform is quite awesome. Check out this post for some info on it:
http://n4g.com/NewsPending-...
I dream of a day when 12 year old's who's voices haven't cracked yet, and think they are the smartest thing in the world, can be filtered from joining servers in CS lol.
Ah, you used PNG crush lol, just tried it out, came up with the exact same file size.
Vista didn't even have that many problems to begin with, most of it was just negative hype and companies making poor drivers. But even so, Windows 7 is a big step up over Vista, they did a great job with it.
OS X is defragmentation free? lol, they use hard drives also. They become fragmented also.
OS X's file system is also poor, it won't be able to keep up with SSD speeds. Current SSD's have already maxed out the file systems speed.
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Uhh, I think some people are forgetting that the CryEngine3 is for the PC also. CE3 is set up in a way to make developing multi-platform much easier. A game can be developed for the PC on it, and then through some simple steps converted to work on a PS3 or 360.
I wasn't implying these things could be perfectly done right now. But just that they can be quite useful in the future when the technology can provide these services in a proper way.
(p.s: Those automated phone systems are pieces of crap, they're hardly on the forefront of voice recognition technology haha.)