E3 is right around the corner but Sony is determine to show why they are still a force to be reckoned with in this industry.

All the hype surrounding Project Natal especially the announcement of having their own separate conference regarding the new motion technology shows that Microsoft is preparing to send a motion message to all the competition.

Sony is on board to make the first strike and this exclusive video footage of the new Kung-Fu Live videogame will surely turn heads and put Sony in a bigger position in terms of true motion.

http://hiphopgamershow.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sony-steals-project-natals

Link is deader than my grandmother. . .

new links or it didn't happen

That is not necessarily what Natal is doing. It has been known for a long time that the eye toy can do (basic) motion control, however, the technology is not as advanced as Natal. Here is an excerpt from IGN:

[b]Project Natal has a fully featured sensory array, according to Microsoft's spec sheet. For starters, it has a standard digital video camera. That will do everything you expect it to, from scanning in pictures of objects to recognizing patterns to letting Milo know what color shirt you're wearing.

But Natal is much more than a simple digital camera. It also has a CMOS infrared projector. This is what allows Project Natal to see in the dark and complete the three dimensional view of the player, including his or her distance from the TV. According to the magazine New Scientist, a person standing in front of a Natal unit is painted with infrared light, and a black-and-white camera measures how much of that light is reflected back to the device to determine depth and distance.

The last bit of the sensory array is a set of multiple microphones. This takes in the room's sounds multiple times, which gives Natal and your Xbox 360 enough data to locate where the sounds are coming from, separate them from other people in the room, and cut out the background noise. The end result is improved voice recognition.

Even with this set of sensors, Project Natal wouldn't work without some sophisticated software to run it. Popular Science recently ran an article outlining this software. In short, it uses a form of artificial intelligence to recognize the human body and recognize each part of the body and create a digital skeleton. Because Natal has been "trained" to recognize human faces, body parts and movement, it uses that information to keep track of a player's limbs (even when they stray out of range or behind an obstacle).It does this entire process 30 times a second.

Natal lead developer Alex Kipman says the system uses 10 to 15 percent of the Xbox 360's computing resources, and recognizing new figures and new poses takes less than a second. Although not as precise as professional motion capture systems, Natal is able to locate a part of the body to within a 4 cm cubes. That's pretty precise, and you don't even have to wear a black bodysuit bristling with electrodes.[/b]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1061205p2.html

That is not necessarily what Natal is doing. It has been known for a long time that the eye toy can do (basic) motion control, however, the technology is not as advanced as Natal. Here is an excerpt from IGN:

[b]Project Natal has a fully featured sensory array, according to Microsoft's spec sheet. For starters, it has a standard digital video camera. That will do everything you expect it to, from scanning in pictures of objects to recognizing patterns to letting Milo know what color shirt you're wearing.

But Natal is much more than a simple digital camera. It also has a CMOS infrared projector. This is what allows Project Natal to see in the dark and complete the three dimensional view of the player, including his or her distance from the TV. According to the magazine New Scientist, a person standing in front of a Natal unit is painted with infrared light, and a black-and-white camera measures how much of that light is reflected back to the device to determine depth and distance.

The last bit of the sensory array is a set of multiple microphones. This takes in the room's sounds multiple times, which gives Natal and your Xbox 360 enough data to locate where the sounds are coming from, separate them from other people in the room, and cut out the background noise. The end result is improved voice recognition.

Even with this set of sensors, Project Natal wouldn't work without some sophisticated software to run it. Popular Science recently ran an article outlining this software. In short, it uses a form of artificial intelligence to recognize the human body and recognize each part of the body and create a digital skeleton. Because Natal has been "trained" to recognize human faces, body parts and movement, it uses that information to keep track of a player's limbs (even when they stray out of range or behind an obstacle).It does this entire process 30 times a second.

Natal lead developer Alex Kipman says the system uses 10 to 15 percent of the Xbox 360's computing resources, and recognizing new figures and new poses takes less than a second. Although not as precise as professional motion capture systems, Natal is able to locate a part of the body to within a 4 cm cubes. That's pretty precise, and you don't even have to wear a black bodysuit bristling with electrodes.[/b]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1061205p2.html

Here is a working link for those who want to see the video
http://n4g.com/news/525340/sony-steals-project-natals-thunder-before-e3-video-proof-is-here

That is not necessarily what Natal is doing. It has been known for a long time that the eye toy can do (basic) motion control, however, the technology is not as advanced as Natal. Here is a link about Natal from IGN:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1061205p2.html

Here is a working link for those who want to see the video
http://n4g.com/news/525340/sony-steals-project-natals-thunder-before-e3-video-proof-is-here