Alex
11-08-2009, 04:56 AM
Natal also brilliantly soft converts standard displays to 3D but can you TOLLERATE a camera in your living room?
It’s a pretty big breakthrough. You thought you had a mere HDTV that did small potatoes stuff like higher resolution and better sound and then vole with Natal stuff started popping out, and you weren’t wearing special glasses so you didn’t expect it or think it possible, especially when you thought Natal only made you pop out.
If you look here:
http://www.chatbots.org/conversational/agent/helium3d_is_the_next_3d_step_for_natal/
You see a camera can be used to pinpoint a user and turn a standard display into a 3d display without the need for special glasses, speculation about a Natal application is in the article as well.
and here:
http://www.seereal.com/en/autostereoscopy/NextGen.php
We see how easy and perfected and practical it may well be and how long the idea has been in circulation.
Remember that MS hired the guy from Nintendo that did the 3d look around demo for the Wii that used the tracking of the Wii mote to triangulate the user and produce depth…
If you remember Peter Molyneux has commented on 3D displays almost in the same breath with Natal.
People immediately thought minority report when they saw Natal and that fuses 3d manipulation with 3d display.
Sony seems to be scrambling because it probably sees the writing on the wall, but would have milked out another couple of decades out and wanted a massive premium.
But the elephant in the room is that people subconsciously don’t want a camera pointed at them and their loved ones while they are relaxing in the living room unless they can be absolutely certain the thing is off at all times when they would want it off and seamlessly so. It’s a risk benefit thing and the risks are unthinkable for most people. It may do amazing 3d manipulative telepresence things for the porn and the cybersex industries but it also conjures every bit of the implied potential for abuse. The living room is still a private space. Its potentially worse than having a panoramic window providing a fish bowl view to a busy street. Put a camera outside that window looking in. Make it so you don’t know who the camera belongs to. Do you put the Natal in a special room? Do you put a sticker over the lens? Does MS get smart and put in 20 easy fail safe mechanisms to ensure privacy? Does MS screw this up for everyone? A lot of the near term intelligence in the cloud is riding on it.
It’s a pretty big breakthrough. You thought you had a mere HDTV that did small potatoes stuff like higher resolution and better sound and then vole with Natal stuff started popping out, and you weren’t wearing special glasses so you didn’t expect it or think it possible, especially when you thought Natal only made you pop out.
If you look here:
http://www.chatbots.org/conversational/agent/helium3d_is_the_next_3d_step_for_natal/
You see a camera can be used to pinpoint a user and turn a standard display into a 3d display without the need for special glasses, speculation about a Natal application is in the article as well.
and here:
http://www.seereal.com/en/autostereoscopy/NextGen.php
We see how easy and perfected and practical it may well be and how long the idea has been in circulation.
Remember that MS hired the guy from Nintendo that did the 3d look around demo for the Wii that used the tracking of the Wii mote to triangulate the user and produce depth…
If you remember Peter Molyneux has commented on 3D displays almost in the same breath with Natal.
People immediately thought minority report when they saw Natal and that fuses 3d manipulation with 3d display.
Sony seems to be scrambling because it probably sees the writing on the wall, but would have milked out another couple of decades out and wanted a massive premium.
But the elephant in the room is that people subconsciously don’t want a camera pointed at them and their loved ones while they are relaxing in the living room unless they can be absolutely certain the thing is off at all times when they would want it off and seamlessly so. It’s a risk benefit thing and the risks are unthinkable for most people. It may do amazing 3d manipulative telepresence things for the porn and the cybersex industries but it also conjures every bit of the implied potential for abuse. The living room is still a private space. Its potentially worse than having a panoramic window providing a fish bowl view to a busy street. Put a camera outside that window looking in. Make it so you don’t know who the camera belongs to. Do you put the Natal in a special room? Do you put a sticker over the lens? Does MS get smart and put in 20 easy fail safe mechanisms to ensure privacy? Does MS screw this up for everyone? A lot of the near term intelligence in the cloud is riding on it.