Just in case you had any doubts over the fitness the Kinect and PS Move actually demand of you, THQ’s teamed up with Adidas to bring its MiCoach fitness tracker to your lounge room early next year.
Microsoft recently opened up Kinect to all those developers that made weird homebrew things with the advanced camera, so why shouldn’t Sony? They did!
Using a PlayStation Move and an old turntable, a scientifically inclined tinkerer has created the Copernitron, “a democratisation of the Copernican revolution made possible by the consumer electronic industry”. I had been waiting for the Copernican revolution to come out on PlayStation!
Sony’s Playstation Move is a high tech motion controller of the highest order that uses Bluetooth to connect to the PS3. You know what else uses Bluetooth? Computers. Apparently Sony have realised this and are planning to officially open up the controller to allow PC compatibility.
Maybe if this PlayStation Move gun came in black it’d be a little more manly. But in white, with the Move’s coloured globe poking out of the end, it’s as frightening as having a custard doughnut waved at you.
On one hand, the Move controller is a very pricey gaming controller. On the other paw, iFixit’s teardown revealed “it’s quite the bang for the buck”, with a processor, accelerometer, gyroscope, Bluetooth, vibrating motor and MEMS compass tucked inside.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/Y5WQbuuq7MM&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":400,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); I’m not entirely certain what’s going on in this commercial for the Playstation Move, but it appears that there are these freaky MoveMen who’ll troll your Facebook page for mentions of parties, gatecrash, and force you to play a game.
