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I should not have been talking about
this until next year, but a story of a motion sensing add-on
for the Xbox 360 controller forced me to interrupt my holiday
break. First, let me tell you that the image floating around
with supposed prototypes of a motion sensing Xbox 360 controller
is FAKE.
The image in question, which you can
see below, was taken from a Gizmodo article that showed the
many prototypes Gyration and Bridge Design pitched to Nintendo
in 2001; prototypes that eventually gave birth to the Wii
controller.
We can confirm that Microsoft has been
researching alternative input technologies for the last two
years, including vision-based recognition such as the one
used on Xbox Live Vision, as well as motion sensing technologies
similar to those seen in the Microsoft Freestyle Pro and the
PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS.
Particularly, Microsoft has looked
at ways to improve the right analog stick input and you’ll
hear more about those efforts soon.
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