Tag: Dr Richard Marks
News Sony's Not Planning To Do Away With The Controller Anytime Soon, Doesn't Make Sense
Sony's R&D boffin, Dr
Richard Marks, has revealed that the platform holder doesn't plan on ditching the traditional controller anytime soon. Why? "I don't think it makes sense," he told Gamesutra, highlighting the importance of the traditional controller against popular motion solutions like the Wii. Marks added that while he thinks...
News Sony Touts The Importance Of Buttons As An Input Device
Sony tried controller-less last generation
It didn't really work out. While the EyeToy was an interesting piece of tech, it hit a brick-wall when it came to most control decisions. The lack of tactile feedback in a controller-less device severely limits the number of things that can be achieved. Hence the direction taken with the PlayStation Move...
News Sony's Dr. Richard Marks: Controller-Free Experiences Are "Limited"
Sony's R&D master, Dr
Richard Marks, has lofted some hefty criticism at his own creation, the EyeToy, and Microsoft's Kinect device. According to the Sony man, controller-free devices are "limited". We're inclined to agree. "I created the technology for EyeToy which we made a controller-less device and it was really neat and it...
News PlayStation Move's Accuracy Likened To $100,000 Surgery Simulators
We know that PlayStation Move is a super-accurate motion device
But just how accurate is it? Sony's senior researcher, Dr. Richard Marks, has likened it to $100k surgery devices. At least - that's according to surgeons the Eye Toy creator has spoken to. "I was talking to some surgeons. They were talking about laparoscopic surgery...
News Sony Not Looking To "Force" The PlayStation Move On Developers
As versatile as the PlayStation Move is, there are still likely to be many experiences that are just better on a standard controller
Racing games, for example. In a reassuring word to PlayStation owners, Sony's said that they're not looking to "force" the Move into games where it just doesn't make sense. Sony's senior researcher, Dr...
E3 2010 PlayStation Move Robot Tech Demo Can Move The Way You Do
Look, he's got Wolverine claws
Look, he moves pretty realistically. Kinect body tracking - whut? All thoughts that passed in and out of our mind as we watched IGN's Greg Miller demonstrate this rather impressive looking PlayStation Move tech demo. We've embedded it above for your convenience. We're nice like that.
News Sony Tried Natal Tech But Opted To Create New Experiences With Move
Microsoft's "Project Natal" is probably the most overhyped nothing in the history of video games
We're not saying the 3D camera peripheral is doomed to failure, not at all. We're merely stating that for a product that's barely been shown, the hype behind a simple premise is staggering. The camera technology has been in development by Israeli 3DV...
News Sony Recreate E3 Demo In Less Nerve-Racking Circumstances
Doctor Richard Marks, Sony's in-house genius behind the Eye Toy and Playstation Motion Controller, has took the time to run through pretty much the entire E3 motion control demo in the comfort of Sony's R&D offices
I.e., with less nervousness. The demo goes through pretty much all that we saw at E3, with a few things that were missed out...
Sony's God of technology, Dr
Richard Marks is a man in demand right now. The genius responsible for the Eye Toy camera showed off his (and his employer's) answer to motion control in early June at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Since then he's been fairly quiet, but in an interview with GameOn he gives his thought process for the Playstation...
