Liveblog – Sony motion controller session, Develop 2009

Am i the only know anxious to see what is in store?

Yep!

This should be either spectacular or a spectacular fail.

I’m looking forward to see what Sony have in store for this.

What store?

Hopefully it will be something good… But its weird that no one else is showing any slight glimpse of excitement….

I am secretly.

Well they’ve hardly shown us anything to get excited about…yet.

We’ll found out soon enough but I am admittedly finding it difficult to muster any enthusiasm.

I look fwd to hopefully being amazed…

What’s there to be excited about? We have seen motion tech demos for years now. We even have a readily available working system out with it.

It’s not like with Natal where MS are trying a different approach. I doubt this will have more than what was shown at E3.

Do you guys think they will reveal the final design?

Its good to be cautiously enthusiastic i guess…

@Doomsayer…
Im hoping of at least a name or final design, or maybe that interface that was in the patent, with removable buttons and the works…

I’m looking forward to it. What sony showed albeit apprently rushed ( and presented by some very scared geeks ) at E3 seemed to me to have more “core” potential than Natal. Although I’ll be a sucker for Natal stuff too.

E3 demo >_<

I like the pic of the EG folks.

Is that the 7th time you’ve told us it works Pat?

Umm… Natal anyone?

After the really embarassing last-minute presentation at last E3 I hope this time they will show us “something” tangible..
Even if, I have to admit, this motion controll seems a copy of the wii mote, an upgrade yes, but nothing revolutionary.
I mean, I do not see future applications / games to be far different from the ones already avaiable on wii…

“little ps3″. Slim?

Haha @ the natal comment. Sony’s been working on this stuff for ages, and has shown some of it long before natal was shown, like the drawing stuff and the head tracking.

@ Smiley…Ya i know, but its weird to see the PS Eye have such power yet no investment software-wise…
Mezmerize and Tori-something are fun for a while, but i want stuff like Eyedentify, or that minority report like menu browsing…
Hopefully they have something in store…

with the wand will be a new generation of eye cam?

Excuse my incorrect English

I hope we get to read/see this event in full, as I love hearing about the tech stuff.

@DeforMAKulizer – I think there’s been a lot of investment in software in the lab. Making it available to developers and finding good uses for it in games is another issue. I think they are going to make it available to devs now though, by the sounds of it.

@Sh1m3oN – it uses the existing pseye camera.

I’m recording the audio. I’ll post the entire thing once it’s over.

Great Pat thanks! =D

where I look this?

PATRICK!!! What were you talking about when you said the dev kit looked like “a little ps3″? It didn’t happen to look like that leaked ps3 slim did it? :p

Cheers pat, that’d be grand.

Hope we get to see some more of the motion tech.

Seeing pat completely out of his depth is fun.

Well this has unexpectedly turned into comedy gold!

That was boring >_<
Good to see investment in Facial Tracking, and hopefully soon we will get to know a name or at least final design…
Cologne it is!
Plus its funny to see Pat go loco!

The stuff they’re doing with the SPU’s sounds great though. SPU assisted graphic processes have always been the key to PS3′s potential, I know it’s not exactly “KIllzone 3 announced” but I do actually find stuff like this really interesting.

uh oh – looks like Pat’s laptop has deceased.

A fitting final post though.:)

Anywhere else doing a transcript?

Ya i know, but a bit too technical for me… Hehe… Can’t wait to see how they apply it =D

I assume that his Laptop run out of batteries xD

did Pat die

That was hard work

I’ll post the audio in a tick.

Yeah, the battery went.

^

lol the laptop death, but the video?

The writer of this, the most terrible live blog i’ve ever read, is an embarrassment.

What were you expecting at develop, exactly?

Sony are delivery interesting and useful information on how they are finally unlocking the power of the PS3 and you reduce this to ridicule because you don’t understand it?

This isn’t a consumer conference… and you didn’t even try to interpret the information, nor translate its relevance to the readers of the blog.

In short – FAIL.

Ninja Moomin, you are on a gaming enthusiast site. He (Pat) is a member of the games press, and therefore is trying to create content that is suitable for YOU as a consumer and enthusiast of games.

The content was also delivered in this manner, on the pretense it was being recorded, so you will hear all the details eventually.

If you wanted to listen to it first hand, and live, then you should have gone to Brighton yourself.

Yeah, as No Pud says, Pat’s reporting of the event is going to be what most of the audience here needs. There was clearly some high level techniques discussed, which only developers are going to fully understand, and they’ll be reading full transcriptions later or will be attending the event themselves.

Mmmm. I just love creamy z-buffers

yes – but filling the live blog with no information other than inane comments makes me wonder why you bothered paying someone to liveblog it at all?

And you’ve basically just said that you guys consider your audience in quite a dim light.

Surely the point of any site in a competitive arena is to give readers something of value?

Argue value to me? Can entertainment not be value?

As for the audience in a grammatically erroneous ‘dim light’, clearly Pat didn’t understand, and he’d be stupid for assuming people are more clever than him.

Lowest common denominator and all that.

And as for paying someone to live blog it, the Editor is doing the live-blogging. And I am sure that escaping rainy Wales, for a nice day in the south of England was great for him, regardless of there being more to Develop 09, than just this session.

What is dim about not understanding what a z-buffer is exactly? Pat hit the right tone for the demographic here… which is mostly gamers not developers. Even if Pat did understand what was being said I’m not sure he would have the time to digest and regurgitate it all in an appropriate form for us. Which in my case would be “Peter and Jane Lurn Cumpooturs”. Liveblogs are made for instant snappy commentary – which has to be very difficult in what sounded like a very dry and academic talk.

I’d have liked to have seen someone interpret all of that stuff for the uninitiated at liveblog speed! Now that really would have been something!

This isn’t a consumer conference… and you didn’t even try to interpret the information, nor translate its relevance to the readers of the blog.

Well, clearly a lot of it WASN’T relevant to the readers of this blog. It might have been to fans of Digital Foundry, perhaps, but not all of us are versed in the ways of the z-buffer and stencil cull methods, or exactly what they mean for gamers. Clearly Pat wasn’t aware that he was going to be liveblogging something which would be so impenetrably technical to most, so he decided to have a bit of fun with it rather than just posting nothing. In the circs, it’s what most of us normal people would have done.