The official "Microsoft at E3 2009" thread. - Page 8

speilbergs pimping the tech maybe wie'll get a boom blox game.

Facial recognition is pretty cool.

tech demo time, gizmodo says teh tracking oddly accurate

I'm really excited

ha!

This does look pretty cool.

this is going to be hard to sell but you demo it ocne on good morning america and all the soccermoms will flock.

Why will it be hard to sell?

paint demo, guying actually painting is talking to audience and haphazardly commanding color changes with just teh name of teh color and the system reckonizes every command.

LOL@ "limb" recognition...

the paint thing looks sweet... as a father i'd love to have that for my son.

because best buy demos likely won't work very well because of the added amoun t of people being detected then again maybe it can do it.

dev teams get dev kits for this tech today.

Disagreed. While the NXE is a help, the 360 still remains way too intimidating to that sort of person. The technology is cool, sure, but how many games will there be for it? I mean, as mentioned above, You're in the Movies didn't exactly catch on. Sure it's not as advanced as this, but it's sort of the same thing as far as the 'casual gamer' is concerned.

And more importantly, the 'soccermom' who has bought a Wii isn't going to buy another gaming console.

Edit: To clarify, I'll probably check this out myself and I hope it works well, but I don't really agree that the casual gamers will automatically flock to this after seeing a demo.

Yay for boring parts of the conference. Where is my Killer Instinct 3 and KI and KI2 on Arcade?!? lol

Guys, its a vision system.
You want to hold a plastic racket for tennis? Go ahead.
A plastic steering wheel, a sword, a ray gun? Anything.
Its implied in the tech; if it works with *nothing* it'll work with *everything*.
More impressed by the facial and voice recognition stuff, though.
Suddenly, the new experience interface makes a lot more sense...

I can see it now with my buddies...

so the paint thing huh?

Let's draw a huge d*ck and color it rainbow colors and then upload it to facebook/twitter

*sigh* the new age in social technology / Gaming is upon us. I can only wonder what tomorrow will hold!

many houses who own wiis own a 360 meaning this will be a drop in teh bucket. but frankly this stuff is just in testing phase for now. it's likely going to be standard in the next xbox.

also remeber even if this is just wii tech in teh next level it also has teh 360 computing power behind it:

Yep.. gonna be some suicides today.

Lol

if MS can find one powerhouse game to utilize this they will be set.

You really think so? I mean, I do personally have a Wii and a 360 and love both, but in the casual gamer 'soccermom' demographic you mention, my sister, parents, their friends, my roommate's sister, and a few of my friends who are all non-gamers own a Wii, and not a 360, and no matter how cool this looks, I don't see them getting another console.

And sure it's awesome that this technology seems to work well and you also have the processing power of the 360, but all of the people I know in that demographic don't really care about HD or raw power or any of that.

It would have been interesting to see Natal in use with a real game, not just mini-tech demo games. It could have some potential, but today it looks like a gimmick. Let's see what this looks like a year from today.

MS is showing this off behind closed doors at E3. hopefully we get some guerilla video.

it being utilized in system showed immediate potential to me.

and it's done MS pretty much whipped it out, it;'s up to sony and nintendo to answer.

Darn. I was hoping to see more Zune HD stuff. Like if it can play some of the simpler XBLA games.

Good stuff!!!



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I wonder how Sony/Nintendo will respond