Bill Gates dreams up new gaming paradigm… Shame Wii got there first
Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates has a vision: “Imagine a game machine where you just can pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it.”
That’ll be, er, Wii then? Okay, so Bill isn’t being quite as shameless as to nick Nintendo’s vision and pretend it’s his own. Gates wants to go a step further, and use camera-based video recognition to let people pick up an actual tennis racket and swing it, with their moves translated into a game.
Nice idea. While Microsoft figures out how to make it actually work, we’ll stick with the Wiimote thanks!
(via Guardian Gamesblog)
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June 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
“Gates wants to go a step further, and use camera-based video recognition…”
is that not one step back? i seem to remember Eyetoy; a failed vidrec project from sony.
but let’s face it. gates has never done anything original in his life. everyone gets there before him, he just makes a bigger noise when he arrives.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Don’t motion-capture systems often rely on marking objects (dots or transmitters on parts of the body) to track 3D movement? If so, then you couldn’t just pick up the racket and play. You’d have to put glowing dots on yourself first!
I suppose Bill’s system can employ 2-3 cameras for visual triangulation, but then motion detection would use up so much processing power, there would only be enough MIPS to play Pong.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:28 am
He seems to think everyone lives in a mansion house with 15 foot tall rooms and enough room to swing a golf club indoors…