Satoru Iwata may say the DS's successor will be motion sensitive, but the team at Engine Software has beaten him to the punch, creating full motion sensitivity with no attachments needed.
To demonstrate the technology in action, Engine Software has released a video of TILT, a prototype marble-rolling simulation. Check it out below.
The developers are keen to stress that this is just a prototype to demonstrate the potential uses of the technology, and that tilt detection is just one of many possible implementations. It's apparently already being put to use in a DSiWare game, due for release this year, though sadly there's no other details forthcoming. However, it does prove the tilt sensitivity is completely software-driven, a frankly incredible achievement for any team.
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Great! This is where the DS should be heading!
Oh My God! does it mean we live in a.. MATRIX!?
the fourth wall is broken, everything is possible now...
Doesn't Move Your Brain: Rollway Puzzle, which was released today, use exactly the same technology?
If this uses the camera to detect motion, I expect it will be very glitch, especially if you move at all after running the game. Like say someone asks you to move up on the couch or you are getting comfy, this is going to confuse the technology. Guess we will have to wait to see if it is any good. Certainly impressive that this can be achieved without dedicated hardware.
Awesome picture, play your DSi, get so distracted you don't notice the intruder coming to attack from behind!
Use of the camera would indeed be an extremely bad method. Maybe Nintendo embedded a motion sensor into the DSi and neglected to tell anyone about it or include it in the dev packs?
Then someone comes along and cracks it before Nintendo was ready to reveal "oh, and by the way, the DSi detects motion too!"
I was going "wow!" while watching the video and thought near the end of it that it would probably use the camera, wich I thought would be cool. But yeah, it could be very glitchy if it uses the camera.
Anyone remember Kirby Tilt'n'Tumble for GB? ^^
That looks pretty awesome! I think the new dsiware release Move Your Brain: Rollway Puzzle uses the camera to tilt.
What the fu...? How can they have tilt control purely in software? It boggles my mind. D: Something about that doesn't seem right. I'll remain skeptical, thankyouverymuch.
Has anyone tried Move Your Brain: Rollway Puzzle yet ? And it does indeed use the camera to detect movement... hope its better than WarioWare's use of the camera
Maybe the next DS will have the feature to watch movies on it too, and maybe even have Miis. YESH!! YESHH!!!!
This sort of reminds me of one of those new MacBooks. Developers found out that it had a motion sensitive device embedded in its hardware, and then they took off from there.
Oh yeah, I posted this in the forums yesterday. This is super awesome!
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/ds/apparent_tilting_tech_shown_for_dsi
This ruins the portability of the DS, especially if youre playing this on a schoolbus
Wait, wait, wait. The motion sensitivity is software-driven?! How is that even possible?!
Wow. That DSiWare game will be a must buy for me, even if the gameplay portion is crap...!
This is amazing...!
Would the mystery DSiWare game in question be Move Your Brain: Rollway Puzzle, perhaps?
It may not ruin the DSi's portability because if it doesnt rely on focusing on the background and instead focuses on some facial feature instead providing you are actually looking face onto the screen as you are playing it should not matter what is going on around you as you play.
This is AWESOME!
I'm just confused on how this would work: tilt sensing on a DSi without ANY kind of attachment? The only way this could be possible would be to use the camera like everybody is saying. Or maybe....
Does anyone notice that protective case on the bottom of the DSi?
This is great news! Can't wait to see it implemented!
The title function is driven by pure awesomeness and the sensitivity will depend on your awesomeness. That, or nintendo has been holding out on us O.o
I would've loved some kind of explanation. Anytime someone demos like that you can make an argument that someone is just moving the system while a video plays. Same thing with those supposed Natal demos showing people playing Half Life 2 or something - it can just be someone miming against a video.
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