From what I understand, it's not required. But they do have depth based sensors and 3d tracking. It's probably just in case the Kinect for the next Xbox takes off. I was happy they didn't focus on it.
It seems very weak to me. Gaikai doesn't work without colossal bandwidth, so I have zero interest in it. The interconnected stuff is garbage. It has a damned kinect sensor and a 360 dashboard :/
I don't really get what that motion sensor bar is for? Is it supposed to be a direct cometitor to the Kinect, like does it map a full body skeleton or does it just track the controller, and why is it required for a simple wireless controller to function?
In all honesty, I suspect the infrastructure to support something like Gaikai streaming might not even arrive during this console generation, at least in this country. You need a bare minimum of 3MB/s up, which is almost impossible to get outside of the London area at the moment - and is only just feasibale as well as very…