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Sony Initiated Motion Controller Craze
06/09/2009 Written by Kyle P.
During this years E3 press conference, Sony showcased their prototype motion controller. Many accused Sony of jumping on the motion controller bandwagon; following the success of the Nintendo Wii controller, and the announcement of Microsoft’s Project Natal.
However, about a year ago, when Sony was demonstrating the EyeToy’s abilities, the following technical video was created. As you can tell, the concepts shown in the video are highly reminiscent of the techniques used in both Sony’s and Microsoft’s demonstrations.
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June 9th, 2009 at 6:55 PM
sony have had motion control since PS1 when third partys made a six-axis-esk controller
June 9th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I don’t really care who initiated the craze, not really into the whole motion thing. Although back in the day I liked the power glove and I had the activation? pad
June 9th, 2009 at 7:17 PM
yea. i cant believe that everybody has forgotten that sony made the eyetoy 5 years ago
June 9th, 2009 at 7:33 PM
this guys been on this for a while, i love that now he’s using the ps3 to combine that augmented reality with 1:1 motion sensing. I really hope we see some great support with this. There can be a whole type of PS3.5 thing going on here, thats all based off of the Eye and trackers
June 9th, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Much better than Natal.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:01 PM
SCORCH!!!!!! is it just me or does that whisper voice sound like a creeper
June 9th, 2009 at 8:27 PM
That’s one bad demo lol. I wonder why Sony didn’t come out with something sooner since they were testing it those years ago.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:33 PM
hopefully designers can implement it in games. good games not just soccer or eyetoy type game
June 9th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
“fireball!”
i also remember another Eye Toy tech demo where the guy made a pair of glasses with a infra-red (or something) laser on either side, he then set the camera to like opposite or something and it would track the laser and he was using it to look around walls and stuff which was pretty cool
June 9th, 2009 at 9:38 PM
smart people are waiting…
June 9th, 2009 at 10:57 PM
It really does not really matter about who was first, but who will bring it to the public/retail with something users will want it for… Sony has some PS2 titles that show off the “bottom” of the avatars shoe comment. I saw one where you use martial arts moves to destroy Star Wars like training balls..
June 10th, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Holy crap, this is sick, even for back then!
Sony has really been working on this thing.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:29 AM
i think the look of the motion controller at e3 made everyone think this is no where near ready but the functionality was definitely already all there. this is going to be great if developers actually take advantage of it
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