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Sure, it looks cool, but it appears to require a lot of slow and inefficient physical movement to accomplish the most basic of tasks. Imagine a bunch of cubical
by musclman 16y ago
Sure, it looks cool, but it appears to require a lot of slow and inefficient physical movement to accomplish the most basic of tasks. Imagine a bunch of cubical works sitting at their desktops waving their arms around trying to navigate their computer's file system :-)
- josh33 16y agoAll technology feels lousy out of its time. He's giving the hackers/entrepreneurs the tech. It's up to us to create some valuable/entertaining/necessary functions out of it.
- EAMiller 16y agoAgreed, every time I see this my arms feel tired.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoKeep in mind that, like most of the things designed at the Media Lab, this was built to look really good in demos. The movements are big and inefficient so they will show up well on stage and on camera. In the real world the movements might be much more subtle. Certainly no broader than, say, American Sign Language, which is quite analogous to what we are reinventing here.
- lkozma 16y agoSorry, I'm skeptical about that. The movements are big so that they will be captured and correctly interpreted by their pattern recognition system. I think they would not be able to detect very subtle movements like ASL. It is ingenious to claim that it was made artificially big and clumsy for the audience.
- stanleydrew 16y agoI think you mean disingenuous.
- lkozma 16y agoThanks, I did mean that :)
- jexe 16y agoNot so sure that these huge gestures are necessary, depending on the technology - You can play games perfectly fine on the wii with little more than the flick of your wrist.
- lkozma 16y agoBut there the device itself has accelerometers, whereas here, at least if I uderstood it correctly, the camera has to capture the markers on the hand which is much more noisy.
- uptown 16y agoHere's a video demo of Project Natal in use that looks exhausting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm0KKa6wACQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm0KKa6wACQ
- jules 16y agoIt looks like being exhausting was the point of the application.
- JesseAldridge 16y agoHoly Christ. The game seems designed to make people look like spastic dorks.
- ghempton 16y agoIts kind of crazy how well project natal seems to work, especially considering that in the TED talk, gloves were required.
- whimsy 16y agoNo kidding. There was a comic about this a while back. http://okcancel.com/comic/3.html http://okcancel.com/comic/3.html
- ryanjmo 16y agoImagine the repetitive stress injury. My body hurts from just using the wii.