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Xbox 360 – Project Natal
Microsoft’s new motion controller uses object, movement, and voice recognition to deliver a new kind of immersive gaming experience.
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“The next step in interactive entertainment is to make the controller disappear” ~ Steven Spielberg
“You are the controller,” teased Microsoft at their E3 conference today, firing the shot heard round the blogosphere: a no-controls-whatsoever motion-sensing device.
“Can we make you the controller?” they asked, before answering with an Obama-like “Yes we can.” Forget Steve Austin, it’s The Six Million Dollar Design Grail: Gentlemen, we can rebuild you…we have the technology…better, stronger, faster…and did we mention without an external controller?
Like a nerdy gladiator swaggering onstage to do battle with breathlessly expectant fans and naysayers alike, Microsoft utterly wowed with “Project Natal.” I mean really wowed. Yeah, it’s kind of a dumb name, but it may turn out to be the most impressive show item any company’s crowed about in years. It’s Nintendo’s Wii without the gangly Wii-remote, Sony’s Eye Toy with dramatically better vision. The promise of interaction without wires or widgets. The future you’d been thinking was still a year or three away.
What we saw today was unprecedented: True 1-to-1 motion tracking. Wave your arm and your onscreen avatar follows you precisely. Bend, yoga-like, to form cute animal shadow-shapes and a silhouetted image on a virtual canvas curls and contorts picture-perfectly. Shift toe-to-toe, tennis-like, anticipating objects hurled your way and whatever algorithms are intelligently sorting behind the scenes recognize your intentions, filtering out flailing limbs or ignoring unnecessary maneuvers.
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome: Man Dies While Using Wii Fit
So, how long before the Wii is labeled a death machine and people will be encouraged to boycott it?
A MAN of 25 collapsed and died moments after playing Nintendo Wii Fit games.
Labourer Tim Eves had been jogging on the spot as he used the machine in his home.
Then he keeled over in front of his girlfriend Emma Tuck and best pal Lewis Hickin.
Emma, 26, and Lewis, 25, tried desperately to revive him but he was declared dead on arrival at hospital despite the efforts of paramedics.
Tim, a scout leader who enjoyed cycling, fishing and playing drums in a rock band, had been fit and well.
The tragedy happened the day he got home to Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk, after visiting parents Alan and June in Portugal to celebrate his mum’s 50th birthday.
It is believed he might have been a victim of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
June said: “We spoke to him on the phone when he was playing the Wii. He told us he had just ordered himself a kebab and was sitting there with a glass of port. A little while after he collapsed.”
Shocked Emma said: “I love Tim loads and will miss him so much.”