Will Apple break out of multitouch for gaming?
I'm thinking, that it could be possible to do head tracking for a Tablet game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
You could use an iPhone as a controller. iPhone was too small and not powerful enough to do this- but a tablet - now that's a possibility.
We haven't seen Apple's 3D gesture patents yet - Microsoft took the IP of zcam - we await to see what's in the patent archives - Apple has a deep patent back catalogue on multitouch gestures - but I haven't heard of any for 3D gestures ala Project Natal.
iMac used as a HDTV/gaming rig - If you could rig a Project Natal USB style device onto the top of an iMac - you could effectively do that style gaming on the Mac.
Irrespective of this, you could do this on an iMac running Windows 7, once they bring Project Natal to the PC via a USB cam. Might be mid 2011 for this.
I'll ses what patentlyapple.com has to say, but I see gaming as taking unexpected, and new routes for games, with a tablet form factor.
With a stylus, again, games could change
I'm thinking, that it could be possible to do head tracking for a Tablet game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
You could use an iPhone as a controller. iPhone was too small and not powerful enough to do this- but a tablet - now that's a possibility.
We haven't seen Apple's 3D gesture patents yet - Microsoft took the IP of zcam - we await to see what's in the patent archives - Apple has a deep patent back catalogue on multitouch gestures - but I haven't heard of any for 3D gestures ala Project Natal.
iMac used as a HDTV/gaming rig - If you could rig a Project Natal USB style device onto the top of an iMac - you could effectively do that style gaming on the Mac.
Irrespective of this, you could do this on an iMac running Windows 7, once they bring Project Natal to the PC via a USB cam. Might be mid 2011 for this.
I'll ses what patentlyapple.com has to say, but I see gaming as taking unexpected, and new routes for games, with a tablet form factor.
With a stylus, again, games could change
