Tsunoda describes Kinect's object-scanning, controller-wielding future

@McDuckScrooged Talk about nonsense. Those Eyetoy videos are the equivalent of me showing you a FPS like Doom or Alien vs. Preadator running on the 32X or Atari Jaguar with a d-pad and claiming that you don't need analog sticks to play FPS on a console.

"Antigrav on the eyetoy also mapped you into the game using the eyetoy."

This is not skeletal mapping like on Kinect. There is no joint detection. Take for example the javelin throw in Kinect sports where the character on screen bends his elbow and positions the javelin exactly like you are doing with your arm. A basic webcam like Eyetoy could never do something like that (joint detection + z-axis detection). It also wouldn't be able to detect when you throw the javelin at the screen, how hard you threw it and what direction you threw it in.

Eyetoy could not detect you kicking the soccer ball at the screen or the direction that you were kicking forward. The Eyetoy couldn't detect how fast you were running in the Kinect Sports track and field games because it couldn't see your knees bending as you lift your legs in the air.

In Kinect Sports boxing you would have to punch to either the left or right of you for the Eyetoy to see it. It would be pretty silly boxing with your head turned sideways to see the TV screen. Eyetoy also wouldn't be able to detect force of the punch based upon where your shoulders are.

Skeletal mapping and joint detection in Kinect opens up a ton of gameplay possibilities that were not possible before or were completely unnatural and imprecise when attempted on standard webcam systems.