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This 3D camera talk sounded so familiar. I know IGN talked about this concept before when Matt C visited a trade show. A quick google search later and I found it. It is called the....
Z Camera
From Matt's blog (February 27, 200
At GDC 2008, I had the chance to try out 3DV Systems' "Z-Camera," a new piece of hardware that out-Wiis Wii, so to speak. Instead of any kind of controller or remote, you would simply plug this camera in to your game console via a USB port and you would theoretically be ready to roll. No accelerometer. No motion controls. The camera merely tracks your every movement and it does so with a remarkable level of accuracy and speed.
Watch this video for more.
You can see a quickly made boxing demo in the video above. Partially because Z Camera samples your movement at 60 frames, there is no lag whatsoever and it's extremely precise. Lift up your hand and unball your fist -- the camera will immediately lock onto the points of all your fingers. Pivot your elbow and it'll see that movement. Dodge and weave in a boxing game and your on-screen character will do the same -- accurately.
The camera measures distance infrared style and a 3DV Systems' rep gave me a quickie demo of the functionality. He pulled up a screen that displayed exactly what the camera was seeing as I stood before it: a black and white outline of me. I moved closer and my outline became brighter. When I took two steps backward, I grew darker. This is how the camera very simply determines depth and it works in light and dark condictions -- although, as with the Wii remote, direct sunlight is not recommended; you can, alternatively, play very accurately in complete darkness.
So often you see these cameras that seem to track you well until someone walks by in the background, at which point all hell breaks loose. Not so with this thing because you can actually set the cut-off point that it sees. For instance, three feet. The camera will not register any movement beyond that point.
I was very impressed with this technology and firmly believe that it out-Wiis Wii in many respects. It's faster and more accurate than any accelerometer and you don't need to even use any external devices to use it. Just stand in front of the camera and you're set. Maybe Nintendo will do something similar for Wii 2 -- I would definitely be pleased.
When I bumped into Reggie during a Nintendo dinner one night, I told him to go check out the demo and he admitted that he had already seen it. Someone in Nintendo Land is at the very least aware of the tech. Hopefully it inspires someone out of NCL to get busy on the next revolution.
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The camera technology seems to be identical. You have the depth perception and the cut-off point, so people behind you do not interfere. There is no need for a controller, you only need a camera. I am not sure what the 2 sensor's are for.
my favourite announcement regarding the PSP was the pixeljunk monsters game. if i had access to the psn i think i'd be all over those games.
i will look into getting resistance psp. it's 3rd person right? not like the ps3 games. is it closer to resident evil 4 or gears of war in terms of gameplay?
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People read the research I have done about the Z Camera. (see above)
If you like shooting people online (personally it's not my thing) than you might want to take a look at the Conduit thread. The lastest impressions are gushing.
"The range of choice is simply immense, and the different game modes rich and diverse. Everything I tried was truly engaging. This looks to be a truly magnificent multiplayer title."
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Read that a couple of years back Iga. Sony were doing something similar with the new Eye toy and they were going to have it track pink balls.
Thanks for the RS2 story.
Turtles in time story is great Leo. I have no wireless on my 360 so I cant get it.
http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/action/indianajonesandthestaffofkings/video/6209082/indiana-jones-and-the-staff-of-kings-video-preview-1
New Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings video preview. Remember this comes with Fate of Atlantis for free (Wii version only)
Lord God it looks awful. Why are Gamespots videos such bad quality?
So I have played some demos recently. UFC Undisputed (got Igas attention) seems damn good. Never played an MMA game before so I have nothing to base it on. The presentation is excellent, looks like an actual broadcast. The combat seems deep, I checked the move list and it has like 30 different sections of moves in different posititions, crazy stuff. At first I had no clue what I was doing so I just used strikes. I then went through the tutorial and learned grappling and submissions, it seems to be lots of R stick moving and button mashing. It seems like a quality game to me, just not my think.
Red Faction Guerrila is actual really cool. At first I was like, here is another generic Mercenaries style open world action game. But then I saw everything could be destroyed, getting a truck and taking down a building is awesome. Then you hop on this mech and start blowing everything up. You need to get the mech into a huge truck which takes you into a turret car chase where once again things blow up. Seems like it has a huge world to play around, mechanics were fine, looks like it will be good fun.
Last night I tried the Wolverine game, oh hell yes! Its your standard GoW like generic action game but it has Wolverine! And Wolverine makes Kratos look like a pussy. This is so bloody, so over the top gory. Heads are coming off, arms and legs flying, you can gut a guy, impale them. One scene has you jumping at a helicopter, ripping the pilot out of the windshield and then rasing his head up so that the blades cut it off. The action is really fast pased, it feels good. At the normal difficulty mode it seemed a bit easy, I just needed to attack like mad and everything around me died. I will rent this game immediately.
WTH on the wolverine game. That's nothing like the movies or comics I read.
Mostly, he would stab people but not rip limbs and stuff constantly. I'm suprised Marvel passed it. It's got a few bad reviews so far.
You know for 60 bucks you might as well take a few Jiu Jutsu lessons. So much more fun that doing it in a game.
Yeah I posted lots of movies of this game. I really sound like all kinds of awesome
That's because Kratos is a pussy. Stupid angry emo of war.
Title Match Pro > UFC
Just to annoy Iga.
Oh found good quality version of the Indiana Jones game. Hit the HQ option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZydnIbMGTw
Pikmin 3 next month in EDGE mag?
Yeah I tried the Wolverine demo yesterday and really enjoyed it. I'm almost tempted to go and buy it but there's a good deal of other things I want to buy plus Blazblue and King of Fighters XII come out at the beginning of next month and those are definitely two games I'll be grabbing so I think I'll just rent Wolverine.
Yeah don't buy Wolverine, at least not yet. That's a licensed game, so it will inevitably go for half price in less than 6 months.
Huh, when did this game get good? Looks rather decent.
Still want the Euphoria, awesome HD Indiana Jones game that never happened.
LOL good. Decent is a better description but coming with Fate of Atlantis is so cool.
I'm just glad it looks better from its horrible original screens.
If the video looks as good as some of the screens it might be allright considering the bonus Fate of Atlantis. But my goggles are tinted with sweet memories of random Disaster Day of Crisis play.
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/indianajones/
Here if you missed the better quality screens from before.
That's what I was thinking too.