Project Natal - E3 Microsoft Gameplay Trailer HD

Motion Controller
For those who haven't caught on yet I am quite the fan of video games so this week (Electronics Entertainment Expo) is pretty much my personal holiday.

Yesterday Microsoft hosted kicked off the show (unofficially as it really starts today) with their 2009 Press Conference. It was mostly wonderful for the gamer in me but it was the teacher in me who walked away stunned!

Microsoft introduced a new idea they are currently calling Project Natal. In short it is a 3d motion tracking system that allows one to interact with their games in a very real way. This has been rumored to be the works for a few months now but nobody saw it coming to the level demonstrated yesterday.

Natal seems to consist of little more than a webcam, a microphone and some ridiculously advanced software. (Kevin Perreira on G4 noted on air my exact opinion: "I never thought the first incarnation of [The Terminator] would be so cute!") It claims to turn the human body into a controller with the tagline "The only experience you need is human experience."

My first thought as a teacher was this is finally technology that any kid, anywhere can use and understand. It requires no previous knowledge of computers, game controllers or anything of the sort. You want to interact with an object on screen? Good, do it. You want to flip the page in a virtual book? Good do it. It is a interactive whiteboard taken to the absolute next level.

This technology is brand new and honestly when you see the demo it feels like science fiction come to life. You can find the press conference on ign.com and on gametrailers.com and I highly recommend checking it out.

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[dargos29]

work in normal tv or must be a tactil tv?

[MsPixma]

@dargos29 works with all kinds of TV

[qwert3a]

Still a dream Microsoft..

[baieti24]

@jb4467

ow it works. Gamespot already tried it out. they did everything except the voice and facial recognition and they only tried kinect games.

[theclubjc]

how many push ups can chuck norris do?

[Akamatsuki]

chuck norris can do 100000000000 push ups in 1 second

[kiwi22ism]

changing tires are boring

[level2seven]

I WANNA FUCK THE DAUGHTERRR

[Menarson]

well nice trailer but kinect itself sucks so much hahaha

[MrAxemana]

@PoopnSuch This whole His and He's thing is fucking stupid on the internet.. who cares? its only youtube

if you cant tell what i mean by "his" then that makes you more retarded then i am

and i missed out the c on excited by MISTAKE.... its a typo you fucking moron

its not like i spelt it like "Ecsited" or something.. that is misspelling

and i knew the whole game was not about changing fucking tires

i just thought it was a stupid addition to an already repetitive looking game

[MrAxemana]

@PoopnSuch You must be one hell of a cunt

[PoopnSuch]

@MrAxemana .. a fucking retard that can't spell tires!!!! wow

look how excited he is.. he can't even spell the word excited and instead writes "exited"

and he doesn't know the difference between "his" and "he's"

what the fuck is so fun about not spelling words correctly?

what a dumb ass for not realizing that the whole game doesn't revolve around tire changing