It caused both companies to delay their next systems, and play catch-up by creating motion systems for their own consoles.
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New motion control systems like Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's hands-free Kinect also provide novel gift options.
Red has just announced the Red Motion lens mounting system for Epic and Scarlet motion camera systems that'll eliminate one of their chief snags: the dreaded CMOS rolling shutter.
Magal develops, manufactures and sells integrated video monitoring and motion-detection systems that are typically employed in perimeter security.
The Kinect add-on for the Xbox was proving very popular, he said, with more than eight million of the motion-spotting systems sold.
In 2006, the Wii became an instant hit, and competitors in the game-console industry scrambled to make motion-detection systems of their own.
The success of the Wii, which let players manipulate in-game avatars by moving their bodies, spawned similar motion-controlled systems in 2010 from Microsoft (Kinect) and Sony (Move).
Magal (nasdaq: MAGS - news - people ) develops, manufactures and sells integrated video monitoring and motion-detection systems that are typically employed in perimeter security.
This may be disappointing news for hardcore and traditional gamers, because it probably means there will be no next-generation Xbox or PlayStation for the next five years, while the companies focus on the motion-control systems.
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Newer motion-controlled gaming systems such as Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's Move, which let players control in-game avatars by moving their arms and legs, have helped sustain interest.
It was also the biggest month on record for Microsoft, whose new motion-based Kinect systems helped it sell 1.37 million Xbox 360 consoles in the US (68% year-over-year increase), beating out Nintendo Wii sales at 1.2 million units.
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They formed a University of Utah spinoff company, Xandem Technology LLC, which is commercializing the wireless networks for use as motion detectors for burglar alarm systems, to help police locate hostages and even to alert out-of-town, vacationing parents if a crowd of teenagers is partying at their home during their absence.
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Instead, they will focus on their latest respective motion-sensing add-on systems to the current-generation consoles, Kinect and PlayStation Move.
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The new generation gaming systems support features that detect and respond to motion and emotion of the users of the gaming system.
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In fact, he thinks the the motion-based games Konami has published for the new systems will help the company see strong sales into the holiday season.
But staying the course with MeeGo, which has no track record, is risky, analysts said, especially in the U.S., where operating systems from Apple, Google and Research In Motion Ltd.
As LED technology proliferates, customers will experiment with integrating motion sensors into bulbs, turning LEDs into nodes for security systems.
The most expensive systems feature high-resolution outdoor cameras, reinforced windows, motion detectors and facial recognition scanners.
The base station itself can connect to as many as 240 lights and switches, with support for all sorts of devices: heat and cooling systems, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, doorbells, dehumidifiers and motion sensors.
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These include the frontal cortex (where decisions are made), the motor cortex (which controls muscle activity), the somatosensory cortex (where the sense of touch is located) and the part of the parietal cortex that regulates kinaesthesia (the sense of bodily motion, which is built up from signals from the muscles and the vestibular systems of the ears).
Of course, companies like Research in Motion have broken ground by providing their customers with easy-to-use e-mail systems over handheld PDAs, such as the BlackBerry.
Once LED lighting systems are networked, you can do a lot of things with them such as detect motion, predict maintenance or figure out how many people are in a room.
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The smartphone industry remains highly competitive as Google Android, Research in Motion BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 are all vying for smart phone market share with their operating systems.
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Openwave Systems shares are trading sharply higher after the company announced that it has sued Apple and Research in Motion both in federal court in Delaware and before the U.S. International Trade Commission asserting that the two companies violate various patents covering the way mobile devices connect to the Internet.
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Using motion tracking and VR headsets, the folks building Orion can optimize assembly processes, so that those installing the various systems on the capsule don't get in each other's way.
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The TV Wonder 650 is based on the Theater 650 chip, including a "motion-adaptive 3D comb filter" as well as noise reduction, and touts the ability to work in Vista systems, even though it's still questionable whether the rest of your system will.
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