motion-controller posts

We have been seeing more and more interest in bringing motion controller features to the PC platform. ASUS and Primesense announced such a product last week at CES, and Razer demoed (again) its long-in-development handheld PC game motion controllers last week as well. Even Microsoft is now hinting that official PC support for the Kinect Xbox 360 controller is coming.

Now VentureBeat is reporting that another company is entering the mix. Start-up Omek Interactive showed off some games based on its SDK which it said is being used to make up to 20 motion controlled-based games. The above YouTube video shows off one of those games, made by Omek itself. It's an arcade racer called Galactic Surfers. There's no word on when or even if these games will be released.

Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show, PC gaming peripheral maker Razer and its partner Sixense showed off a prototype of its upcoming PC game motion sensing controller while playing Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2. Unfortunately that motion controller still hasn't come to market but at today's Intel press conference at CES 2011, the motion controller was demoed live to the crowd.

This time the game that was used was Valve's upcoming puzzle-shooter sequel Portal 2. Our sister site Engadget got part of the demo on video which you can check out over on their site (for some reason there's no embed code for the video; sorry). Sadly there's still no word on when the Razer-Sixense motion controller will be released.

One of the cooler announcements from CES this week was word that Razer and Sixense were teaming up to develop a motion-based PC game controller. Our sister site Engadget got a chance to head to the Razer booth for a brief demo of a controller prototype playing Valve's Left 4 Dead 2.

As you can see from the above YouTube video showing off the CES demo the prototypes are long wand-like devices with a severe black color instead of the nice and friendly Wiimote controller. Again details on pricing and availability are not yet finalized but the first production models should be ready for prime time sometime later this year.