Xbox Natal -- WOAHHH!
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- vespa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/techn…
Is this really a game character or is it a crazy demon child stuck in the telly?
- fiesta0
its a faked prerendered demo, but even if it was real its hardly exciting when you consider half the time all it recognises is colours... be a boring little fucker to talk to
watch the PS3 wand shit if you actually want to see something real and impressive
- Read before you speak. There are people using this at E3 right now. It works smart guy.CygnusZero4
- That PS3 want thing is a Wii ripoff. This 360 thing is something new ive neve rseen before.CygnusZero4
- keep sucking balmers cock yeah?fiesta
- vespa0
are you serious? did you watch it to the end?
- Autokern0
Seen that the other day. Pretty amazing but consider a couple of things:
- Molineux is well known to be an overboaster when is about present new games/new technologies.
- The technology they're presenting is most likely real: play fable 2, and Black and White and you'll see where it comes from.
- the environment they're using is quite limited in terms of space so they could have pumped up the poligons to get a decent result.And finally this is pretty much the presentation of an "happy case" kinda of a staged situation where things will work smoothly.
Still interesting though
- As I said to the other guy, read hands-on articles on the game sites. People are using this right now.CygnusZero4
- + Molineux is just one developer who was allowed to make a prototype game, has has nothing to do with Natel.NONEIS
- vespa0
I'm sure it's staged but it must be fairly close. I for one would love to work on a product that utilises that technology.
- benfal990
this is the end of the world
- ismith0
If it's awesome then I want it.
- creez0
what 's so amazing?
- A human interacting with a digital character, and him reacting to them.CygnusZero4
- transmission0
I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing but from what i saw it poses a problem for them. Part of the reason why video game consoles are successful these days is that they are able to sell accessories (ie wii fit boards, guitars, drums etc.) if in the end you don't need that to play with xbox I imagine that sales will decrease with them. sell you microsoft stock.
- It uses a camera/motion detector or somesuch mounted on top of the TV.ismith
- more money is made on the games, not the plastic toysernexbcn
- not smart.rippedursite
- Ruffian0
Another time wasting crap machina.
- Orbit0
It will either be shit and as such about as engaging as one of those online "intelligent bots" that merely reflects your questions with questions reconstructed from the words you used ( I reconstruct questions with the words that you used?) or it will be really really good, and the disconnection and infantilisation of the human psyche will begin in earnest, leaving us all emoting with great attachment to an interactive avatar fronting a sophisticated programme that can reflect back our questions with questions of its own, reconstructed from our dialogue.
I can reflect back questions reconstructed from for your dialogue? But what about my homework? Maybe I could draw some fish..
- ernexbcn0
what I liked from the Natal demos was using the Xbox Dashboard with voice and hands. And some silly games like painting and contest games for answering questions.
Playing a FPS or some other games with these will just get you tired, but it still has interesting uses.
- 5timuli0
Not impressed. The whole presentation was obviously pre-scripted, staged. Molyneux was annoying, but not as annoying as the woman who 'interacted' with Milo. And why oh why did they have to use an annoying pre-teen boy as the basis for their character? Even a fucking demented geriatric would be less annoying, and probably more entertaining.
I really want to believe this is worthwhile, and tht it works flawlessly, but I just can't.
- People are using it at E3 right now. It works.CygnusZero4
- there are some realtime videos of this thing working around, gametrailers.comernexbcn
- Ive seen that stuff. Very cool. Unfortunately a lot ignorant naysayers here.CygnusZero4
- CygnusZero40
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/…
Enough about it not working. Nice to see people dont read before they just make tjhings up and post them on message boards.
- moldero0
great now ill have to stand to play video games.
- scarabin0
*shrug*
it's just a glorified playstation eye- still better than the PS3 controller, also known as WiiMote wannabeernexbcn
- wannabe? it's way better than the wiimote.scarabin
- Still the same old crap. This is something new.CygnusZero4
- fiesta0
OH WOW YOUR WEARING GREEN TODAY
OH NICE DRAWING I SEE YOU USED ORANGE
BYE BYE ITS TUESDAY TOMORROWyawn, sounds boring to me despite the raging erection CygnusZero4 has over it
- ernexbcn0
they are also adding custom Twitter and Facebook applications to the Xbox 360 Dashboard, cool, but I want a fucking web browser on the thing so I can watch Youtube from the couch on my TV like my friends does with his Wii/PS3
- vespa0
weird how not many people in here are interested in the potential for designers to do cool stuff with this sort of technology, ah well
- Utopianacht0
I just wonder when they will solve the red ring thing...
- They did. New consoles all have new hardware inside.CygnusZero4
- cabbas0
This has potential for specific applications where the motion-tracking technology is fundamental to the gameplay and user experience.
Does anyone else find using sticks to aim awkward? I'd much rather point at something with my fingers or hand to aim, seems only intuitive and natural.
Where this could fail miserably is if it's abused, much like the way some Nintendo Wii games force you to use specific motions for non-intuitive actions. Appropriate use is the key.
I hope Natal is successful if only to end the abstraction between interacting with games using buttons.