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New technology is coming. Fast. In 10 years, who knows where we'll be, it's almost impossible to tell. However, we might have just gotten a glimpse at the future with Microsofts "Project Natal".
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10253892-235.html
What we know on how it works so far:
Now, as we all know, the Father of All Lies presented the Milo program, and as we should be able to guess, it was being manipulated and was slightly scripted. That's great on it's own because it's showing us that they're moving ever so close to that technology.
What technology? Virtual Reality, holograms, and that kind. Think about it. In a few years when Microsoft is finished pumping it's billions into this technology, the world will change. There won't be a need to movie ticket tellers anymore. You'll be able to talk up, and talk to the "AMC Teller Ashley" program, get the right tickets, summaries on movies, so on and so forth without actually talking to a real person.
Can you guys fathom what this means? I mean, really, really wrap your heads around what this new technology is giving way to. Sure, Sony has an awesome motion sensor thing in that it's 1:1 and pinpoint accurate. But all they did was one-up the Wiimote. The Natal? That's almost "too sci-fi" to be real. Or, at least, it was 10 years ago.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10253892-235.html
What we know on how it works so far:
http://gizmodo.com/5277954/testing-project-natal-we-touched-the-intangible said:The test system was an ordinary Xbox 360, connected to small PC and camera that simulates the final Natal rig. There are two camerasone RGB, for face recognition and display video, and one infrared, for tracking movement and depth. Why infrared? The eye doesn't see infrared light. And when you combine an infrared camera with an infrared emitter (also part of Natal), a room is flooded with a spectrum of invisible light that works in the dark.
Natal also has its own internal processing system handling an unspecified amount of the heavy lifting behind Natal's cleaver image and speech recognition. It breaks the human body into 48 points tracked in real time, and it can sense your whole body in Z space, or depth. In fact, on a heat map that measured depth, my hands appeared hotter than my shouldersbecause they were closer.
Natal is so smart, in fact, that, if your room is narrowed by a pair of couches, it can signal to a game to narrow the level. It can see about 15' x 20' of a room, according to project leader Kudo Tsunoda's informal estimation.
Now, as we all know, the Father of All Lies presented the Milo program, and as we should be able to guess, it was being manipulated and was slightly scripted. That's great on it's own because it's showing us that they're moving ever so close to that technology.
What technology? Virtual Reality, holograms, and that kind. Think about it. In a few years when Microsoft is finished pumping it's billions into this technology, the world will change. There won't be a need to movie ticket tellers anymore. You'll be able to talk up, and talk to the "AMC Teller Ashley" program, get the right tickets, summaries on movies, so on and so forth without actually talking to a real person.
Can you guys fathom what this means? I mean, really, really wrap your heads around what this new technology is giving way to. Sure, Sony has an awesome motion sensor thing in that it's 1:1 and pinpoint accurate. But all they did was one-up the Wiimote. The Natal? That's almost "too sci-fi" to be real. Or, at least, it was 10 years ago.