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Speaking in a joint presentation with Steve Jobs at the D5 conference, Bill Gates brought up the idea of motion sensing in video games, and he wasn’t just talking about Wii and PS3.
“Software is doing vision and so, you know, imagine a game machine where you’re just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it,” explained Gates.
The moderator at the presentation then suggested that Gates was simply describing the Wii, to which Gates replied: “No, that’s not it. You can’t pick up your tennis racket. And swing it.“
Unlike the Wii which can mimic real world items, such as a Tennis racket, Gates was talking about the next step in motion sensing, with players using real world items to control the game. The system would use advanced video recognition that watches the player swing the actual tennis racket and converts this action into the same action in the game.
At some point down the line could we see a similar system implemented in an Xbox console?
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