Motion Controlled Gaming

I'm sure everyone out there has at one point played Nintendo Wii...I mean, let's be honest, it's pretty fun. The Wii, which was the first Motion Controlled Gaming system has been around for a little over four years, and has been very popular. Since its creation, it has essentially been the only interactive gaming console where the user's motions dictate how the character moves on the screen. However, other companies such as Playstation and Kinect have been producing their own technologies in hopes of making an impact on the motion controlled game industry. PlayStation recently created Move, which is similar to the Wii but has higher quality graphics and focuses more on action video games such as KillZone 3 and US Navy Seals. Lastly, the system that many people think is going to make a real splash in the industry is called Kinect. What makes this technology so different from the rest is that it uses a camera to track its user's body movements. For example, if the user raises his or her eyebrow the Kinect responds by making the in game character do the same thing....it's like a video game version of Avatar! This system differs from PlayStation's Move and Nintendo Wii in that motions are tracked by a camera as opposed to the sensors on the hand held remote. It should be very interesting to see how big of a splash these new systems are able to make on the market. 

This picture shows how when playing Kinect the character on the screen mimics the movements of the user!
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