VisionPlay brings motion tracking to PC

VisionPlay are trying to cash in on the Project Natal craze with their own full-body tracking system for the PC. It is designed to work just with any webcam, but still track the position and orientation of your body parts. They are working on a Tennis game called VisionTennis.

Unlike Natal, they don’t have a 3D camera or an array microphone to work with, so they are doing things the hard, and error-prone way. Which means this probably won’t work anywhere near as well as Natal. But if what they say in the video is true, it will still be very impressive. Personally, I think they should have used simple props in a tennis game rather than hand gestures that look like handball though.

See http://trendyent.com/projects/visionplay.