Video games have always been popular with children and adults alike and now the most popular are the motion video games, such as the Kinect and the Nintendo Wii. These game consoles are always improving, but exactly, how they are able to change your movement into a movement on the screen?
Motion sensors are not yet perfect, which means that the games consoles always need to be improved. The sensors are not always able to pick up the tiniest of movements even though they are sometimes needed for a certain game. Motion sensors are able to send an electronic signal through the game, which then shows the movement on the screen.
Motion sensors use infrared detectors though infrared waves. These are not visible to the naked eye and they work on heat. Everything is able to generate heat, especially the human body. The sensors are able to pick up on the changes in the heat and then send the response to the motion video games. It is very similar to the way that burglar alarms set off an alarm when someone has entered. There are also sound wave detectors, which use microwaves rather than infrared motion detectors. The waves are constantly let out and nothing will move if the return pattern is just what was expected. However, once the pattern changes, an action will be triggered. Automatic doors operate to this very similar way.
However, video games use a new form of technology. This is an accelerometer, which uses computer chips within a controller. The chips are able to tell when there has been movement and what these movements have caused on the screen of the game. The movement is shown as accurately as possible on the screen but sometimes-smaller movements are not registered.
This type of technology was not originally design for motion video games. It if was not for the military, the computer chips would never have been invented. They were designed so that missiles could be guided from other locations. The chips were originally made a lot larger and were a lot more expensive but with the popularity of free motion games, it has become possible to shrink the chip size.
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