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Matooba
October 22nd, 2009, 08:54 PM
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Project_Natal_Camera.jpg/250px-Project_Natal_Camera.jpg

Xbox Link (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/)

3D games controlled by a player's motion, eyes and ears will become a reality, according to Microsoft's Corporate Vice President.
Julie Larson-Green says the company's Project Natal is the start of screen navigation systems that replace the mouse.

http://www.product-reviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/microsoft-xbox-360-and-project-natal.jpg

News video HERE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8321309.stm)

Sensors

The Project Natal sensor[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal#cite_note-Natal_101-0) is an approximately 9-inch (23 cm) wide horizontal bar[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal#cite_note-seattletimes-16) connected to a small circular base with a ball joint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_joint) pivot, and is designed to be positioned lengthwise above or below the video display. The device features an "RGB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_space) camera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera), depth sensor, multi-array microphone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone_array), and custom processor running proprietary software",[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal#cite_note-Natal_101-0) which provides full-body 3D motion capture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture), facial recognition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_face_recognition), and voice recognition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition) capabilities. The Project Natal sensor's microphone array enables the Xbox 360 to conduct acoustic source localization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_source_localization) and ambient noise suppression (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control), allowing for things such as headset-free party chat over Xbox Live (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal#cite_note-Natal_101-0)

Breakdown of Project Natal HERE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal)

Cortexian
October 22nd, 2009, 09:17 PM
That's actually pretty cool, I wonder how shooters will take advantage of technology like that... I'll buy one if it works as advertised.

ThePlague
October 22nd, 2009, 09:36 PM
Imaging playing FPS's with that :o

Even if I didn't have the money, and it ran like it did in the video, i'd buy the shit out of it.

Heathen
October 22nd, 2009, 09:44 PM
Maybe in-game gestures can be done.

In Halo Reach, a nice flick of the finger to that lucky grenade whore.

paladin
October 23rd, 2009, 01:15 AM
I think I heard from a reliable source that Reach won't utilize natal.

Matooba
October 23rd, 2009, 07:08 PM
I think I heard from a reliable source that Reach won't utilize natal.
That Blows!! they get something good and no one wants to use it...

Trulife8342
October 23rd, 2009, 09:41 PM
Bungie is one of the few companies that requested (and recieved) Natal Devkits...

Dwood
October 23rd, 2009, 09:59 PM
I honestly think Natal will be horrible when it comes out.

BobtheGreatII
October 24th, 2009, 10:43 AM
Why is this being brought up now? lol. This stuff was all shown at E3...

Higuy
October 24th, 2009, 11:34 AM
Yeah, its pretty old.

It's still pretty cool though, if something like Halo was utilize it that would be cool.