dcdelgado
dcdelgado
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8444935.stm
Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010, Microsoft has announced.

The system allows users to play games controlled by body movements and speech rather than a handheld device.

Visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, also heard that Natal will work on all existing Xbox 360 consoles.

"With Project Natal we are allowing you to have the experience you want with technology that's natural for you," said Microsoft's Robbie Bach.

Natal's body gesturing system relies on cameras, sensors, microphones and software to understand voice commands and capture the motions of a player as they jump, kick or wave.

"We are removing the last barrier to gaming - the controller," said Mr Bach, President of Entertainment and Devices at Microsoft.

Project Natal was first announced at the E3 video games conference in June last year. Since then, Microsoft has been inundated with questions about when it would go on sale.

At the company's keynote presentation at CES, Mr Bach did not say how much Natal would cost or which countries it would launch in.

The audience that packed the Hilton Hotel was also told that in the 10 years since its debut, the Xbox has sold 39 million units and 500m games - generating around $20bn in retail sales.

New games

Alongside the Natal news was the announcement that the next instalment in the popular Xbox game Halo will come out in the autumn.

Mr Bach treated the audience to a sneak preview of Halo Reach, but bloggers noted that it had been available on the web for some time.
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icemanufc
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Someone got a bit excited from the Gadget show. lol!

http://www.gbgamer.net/2010/02/23/gadget-show-nata...
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Slabs
Slabs
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Jason Bradbury knows his stuff. Great to hear him so excited about it.
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BLackHawkodst
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Is it still on the Bravo channel or has it moved now?
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Slabs
Slabs
Since 7606 Days
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Is it still on the Bravo channel or has it moved now?
Is it shown on Bravo? I know it goes out initially on Five. You can watch it on-demand here >> http://demand.five.tv/Series.aspx?seriesBaseName=T...

Not usually a lot of gaming stuff on there, but as a techy version of Top Gear it is a great watch.
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BLackHawkodst
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I'm sure i use to watch it on Bravo? thanks for the link anyway.
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deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 7444 Days
Good piece on how Natal would enhance Heavy Rain;-

http://www.ozymandias.com/heavy-rain-natal-the-mis...
Playing Heavy Rain is a fascinating experience. The game tries to map contextual user input onto a controller – something that, in itself, has absolutely no context in the game world. It attempts to immerse you into that world by showing you a motion which you need to duplicate on the controller – examples include having you swirl a stick to show a badge, or holding down an awkward series of buttons to simulate a difficult movement. The problem is that the controller itself simply doesn’t exist inside the game world – so the user is being asked to try and translate a motion that’s intended to suggest a real-world analog, then trigger it appropriately on a device that isn’t in that “real” game world. Unfortunately, this just isn’t that intuitive, even to a oldschool gamer like myself. And when I tried to have a non-gaming friend of mine play, he gave up in frustration saying that the controls were “just annoying.” He didn’t buy the immersiveness argument at all.



That led me to imagining what Heavy Rain might have been if time and space (and competitive interests) had allowed Natal to be the control interface. Suddenly you’d have an immersive story with digital actors that you could control by actually doing the appropriate movement. Pretend to flash that badge by swiping it from your side and holding it up. Slap the guy by literally slapping the air. It would all have to be tuned and playtested of course, but you’d have the huge advantage of every user already knowing how to play intuitively. As Natal promises, your body is the controller, and you already know how to play because the actions are the same ones you would naturally do.
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dcdelgado
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Interesting Idea.
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