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Digital hey guys we're here at the nurata booth with something that I almost walked right past this is mad
genius and their amazing amazing controller so what can you tell me about
it uh what we have is a motion controller uh except it's based on
absolute positioning where most controllers are based on acceleration
and what this does is it lets us know where the player is in the room with an
accuracy of 100th of an inch and we can break the controller in half so we can
track each of their hands independently uh so that we can track things like if
the player shoots a bow or does other things we can track each side of it
separately um and we can track that with the accuracy of 100th of an inch which
allows the player to aim with absolute precision and no sensor drift we can get
that last little bit when they zoom in on the target we can see that motion and
the tracking is enough that we can tell the difference between if the player is
breathing or if they're not uh for some really tight shots it's better to hold
your breath just like it is with an actual bow or an actual gun it it adds a
different feel to the game because it it becomes about how well can you aim how
well can you move it's not just putting the crosshairs on something and pushing
a button um the uh tracking is also
optimized for an area about 8 ft wide about 12T deep now so the player can
move anywhere in that area in front of the TV and what we do is we link that to
the character movement of the game so as the player moves around the character
moves with them so they can duck behind an object literally step to the side to
step out shoot somebody and then step back and hide again while they reload
and it adds a completely different feel to the game if they need to move further
all of the scks and buttons are still active so we haven't removed any controls that they're used to we just
add the motion if they wanted and if they don't want the motion they put the
two halves back together and they have a standard controller like they always
have uh the the two halves putting it back together and taking apart those are
really easy to do because it's based on magnets and something you told me
earlier actually was because of how absolute the positioning is actually to
to you can tell because while you're holding it there's a little bit of drift
because your body is naturally moving in tiny amounts and it's that accurate that
if sometime if you if you put it down and point at the screen it will be exact
which is pretty interesting now another thing we talked about when you brought up if you pulled it apart and went like
this uh you could be shooting a bow you can make custom controls for this so how
would you go about doing that um we have a motion editor and you can pull that up
and you can edit the motion design that we've done or you can create your own
and that's how the Motions for the controller can be customized to the game
and this is done without any hardware modification to the console and without
any additional software in the console so it can go back on any console and
play existing games it's backwards compatible with the games that are
already out there because you don't need an additional software solution to make
the game work so we've gone as far back as as PS1 games I've done Gran Turismo
on a PS1 um and it works just fine with
that we've actually gone as far back as is the original Castle Wolfenstein and
which looks kind of clunky blocky now but you can link into anything and you
know with a lot of the new uh motion controllers that are coming out they
have an API that the game developer needs to write to for it to work and I
wanted this to work right out of the box so you can pull it out of the box play
the games you already have and you know in the future it would be great if game
developers would write for it but if not you still have your entire library that
you can play differently and I think that's really cool because there's a lot of Technologies coming out lately uh
like tracking that we've seen and Oculus and all these other things that while
they're awesome they require a lot of development on the game maker side and
with all these Technologies coming out it's going to be hard for people to properly develop for everything that's
available to them so when a device like this comes out and uh the hackers in the
community can just come out and make their own profiles upload them to the cloud and allow you to download them
yourselves it's a lot easier for game makers because while if if they want to
they can prepackage it or they can add it later really easily or if they have
someone really enthusiastic in their community that their nowhere is already going to make a really good profile they
can just rely on that which is really cool uh what's your favorite part about this device or what is anything you feel
like we've left out so far um there's
one thing that it's difficult to get through when you're watching it but it's something that really happens when you
play is when you have that level of control uh something as simple as
shifting your weight left and right and the character moves with you there's a connection that that makes with your
brain and everybody who does it the first time there's this wow effect with
it because you're like oh I'm connected into it and it's little things like that
that change the gaming experience and so this isn't necessarily about counting
milliseconds or a competitive Advantage it's about feeling a little more
connected with the game this controller is awesome there's a billion different things you can do with it I'm really
excited for how easily and seamlessly it integrates with games they're going to
be having a Kickstarter in a while I think she said somewhere around April or February but don't quote me on that go
to their website um look up mad genius you'll find it and there's an input
field for your email if you put your email in there they will email you when their Kickstarter is live this is
definitely something I'm going to be getting behind as I love different ways of interacting with computers or cons or
whatever if you can interact with it differently I'm all over it I was all over oia I was all over Oculus all this
kind of stuff so I'm super excited for this device thank you for watching this
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