Project Natal: The Milo Fake

For your eyes only ...

On E3 2009 Peter Molyneux tried to convince us that he will come up with something ground breaking. He introduced Milo, a boy who seems to be able to talk with real human beings and even could "see" them with the help of Microsofts new 3D-camera from 3DVSystems. However, I'm not questioning the technology behind Project Natal, but I don't believe that Peters Demo was for real. There was a logical mistake in it: An on-screen figure is not able to look in someons eyes only. It will either look into the camera or it will not. It is not possible to visualize that an on-screen figure look to certian points in a room. You need a hologram or a 3D-Monitor to give this impression.

This physical limitation questioning the whole project: For what do you need a Super-Tamagotchi like Milo, if he is not able to look into your eyes only?

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Natal
• Milo
• Microsoft
• Peter Molyneux
• Fake
• Xbox 360
• E3

[whisker96]

@0:15 woman is wearing sony headphones, MICROSOFT FAIL

[Zebonka]

Claire's a slut.

[PeopleGB]

Also she is standing way too close to the kinect. Normally Kinect demands you to keep a distance of at least 6ft in order to work.

[webj444]

This one video may be fake but look at kinect now.

[dave01123]

i feel betrayed :(

[Elbottoo]

@Nexils No, Claire is just an actress or Lionhead employee, paid to do what she did. She was just taking orders.

[Elbottoo]

Love the "and molyneux" part. The guy is clearly a scam and a liar and a hardcore xbot.

Why would you come out and lie about stuff like that? Think about his reputation amongst other developers now. Nobody takes him serious anymore. And all of that for a Microsoft paycheck.

[pcvideogamer]

where is he now eh? even the BBC remove the article from their website, suspicions of this being fake were around a while and today 2 or more years later we now know the truth, bullshit is everywhere, from war for oil *cough* sorry freedom to phone-hacking, rigged TV phone-ins UFOs bigfoot whatever... many of you will 'believe' blindly... employ your critical faculties before we all have to suck the big apple I-cock as the standards of acceptability are lowered year in year out.

[Nexils]

So... Claire is actually a schizofrenic lady who talks to a black TV?! lol sounds funny to me.

[kooora18]

@lostn65 I think of it now and its absolutely ridiculous, the lady says "This is the first time that thousands of people are gonna see this," and milo replies, "Thousands of people" you can tell its scripted, how can he reply that quickly with the correct words unless its scripted. And who voiced him? I bet it's Peter Molyneux's son or nephew :P :P

[mastax1234]

although i partially agree with you, but kinect has two cameras and an infared sensor, so it know where you are in front of the camera, so a character can look in the direction where you are in front of the camera(s)