[Ripeer]

I was just watching The Island


There's a scene where the two main charaters are supposedly playing xbox. And there playing using there body as the controller for a fighting game of sorts.... So was NATAL a dream back when the movie was made, or is it inspired by the creators of the movie? Or maybe theres no connection.


According to IMDB The Island came out in 2005

 

[bassmonkeee]

There is a scene in Total Recall where Sharon Stone is practicing tennis with a hologram and it comments on her perfect form. This idea existed long before 2005.

 

[sirjonsnow]

Hell, there were working peripherals and game systems like it prior to 2005.

 

[Ripeer]

I don't doubt the idea is new, but the fact that two main characters were playing xbox (there's xbox logos all over the place) makes me wonder if microsoft has had NATAL in mind for quite some time now


Heres a clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5bb_lRh4c

 

[jhoff80]

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Activator


... back in 93.

 

[mguy5]

Any MST3k fans out there? The Island was eerily similar to 1979's Parts: The Clonus Horror [MST3k ep #811]

Clone Movie Cloned from Clone Movie


And I would say Microsoft's first and foremost reason for NATAL is to try and overtake the Wii in interactivity.

 

[y2k02c5]

last week on Smallville, they were playing it. They were playing that one game with the bouncing balls that they demonstrated last year.

 

[pcweber111]



Quote:
Originally Posted by jhoff80 /forum/post/18157733

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Activator


... back in 93.

Beat me to it!

 

[confidenceman]



Quote:
Originally Posted by jhoff80 /forum/post/18157733

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Activator


... back in 93.

Yeah, the idea's pretty old. And there's been gaming tech doing this for over a decade. I remember seeing a fighting game (I think it was a Tekken game) in the arcades with a motion detection camera.

 

[bassmonkeee]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripeer /forum/post/18157725


I don't doubt the idea is new, but the fact that two main characters were playing xbox (there's xbox logos all over the place) makes me wonder if microsoft has had NATAL in mind for quite some time now


Heres a clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5bb_lRh4c

An XBox turned into a robot in Transformers. I don't think that means that Microsoft has XBox transformers in the works.


To paraphrase Freud: Sometimes a paid movie tie-in is simply a paid movie tie-in.

 

[Osirus23]

Unlikely, no one watched The Island.

 

[Nolbi-Wan]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Osirus23 /forum/post/18159682


Unlikely, no one watched The Island.

I watched it because Scarlett was in it.

 

[pcweber111]



Quote:
Originally Posted by Osirus23 /forum/post/18159682


Unlikely, no one watched The Island.

Correction: No one who watched it watched it again.

 

[oo7evan]



Quote:
Originally Posted by nolbi-wan /forum/post/18159730


i watched it because scarlett was in it. :d

+1

 

[Ripeer]

I've seen it several times now......I thought it was a great movie.

 

[chiliDog]

Not great IMO, but a pretty good movie... and if you have ever read "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates, you would know that a lot of the "new" stuff that comes from them was envisioned 20+ years ago.

 

[pcweber111]



Quote:
Originally Posted by chiliDog /forum/post/18162722


Not great IMO, but a pretty good movie... and if you have ever read "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates, you would know that a lot of the "new" stuff that comes from them was envisioned 20+ years ago.

Well I think that should be a foregone conclusion. I'd be worried if R&D wasn't that far ahead, at least in the conceptual stage. Heck look at the military. Who knows how far ahead they are right now in black projects? I'm sure MS already has a pretty fleshed out roadmap for where they expect the market to be in 10-20 years. Now if only I could take a peek.

 

[benjamin-benjami]

i mean come on who hasn't thought about "interactive" video games, to try to nail it down to a certain person or movie is ridiculous. Who hasn't been playing a video game and thought man it would be cool if this was interactive.

 

[sirjonsnow]

Yeah, you can't quite give Josh Baskin credit for the Amazon Kindle, but the idea existed before even then.

 

[bassmonkeee]



Quote:
Originally Posted by sirjonsnow /forum/post/18166293


Yeah, you can't quite give Josh Baskin credit for the Amazon Kindle, but the idea existed before even then.

Nice.