Xbox Natal -- WOAHHH!
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- 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
- 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.
- 5timuli0
Just for the record, I'm not an "ignorant naysayer". I know this is being given closed-door demonstrations and that the technology probably does work, and well, but the demo video was a very poor way to show this. They managed to make their whole demonstration FEEL fake. Poor female actress, annoying character to interact with.
And really, it's not THAT ground-breaking. Until they develop this technology for use in real-world situations (the kind of situations where the majority of people on QBN would get excited) then it's just a crappy actress showing orange pen marks to a digital brat through a souped-up PS Eye.
- 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?
- Utopianacht0
I just wonder when they will solve the red ring thing...
- They did. New consoles all have new hardware inside.CygnusZero4
- pango0
reality is doomed!!!
- Pupsipu0
what can designers do with this? I can't think of any serious examples.
Explore a commercial? Do that shopping shit? Try out different hairstyles? Go shopping in a mall? Go to a museum? Use Google Street View in it?
It might be a nice interface improvement, but it's still a small improvement after the Wii.
- i don't know, design a game??vespa
- you have some lovely work man, it's people like you should be teaming up with developers and making cool stuff with this technologyvespa
- ...technologyvespa
- people like me should get a girlfriendPupsipu
- Examples? What sort of things? We're not all game designers.5timuli
- think up your own proposals 5timuli! i aint giving away my ideas for freevespa
- 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.
- CygnusZero40
Some great vids out there of random people using this at E3. Looks killer.
- benfal990
this is the end of the world
- drgss0
there arent even text-based bots which can lead a conversation like that, not to mention bots with speech recognition
- monoboy0
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- 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
- scarabin0
it all comes down to the games.
i'll jump on it the second some cool games come out for it, but the video looked really faggy and weak
i hope developers see the potential and use it in cool ways
- 5timuli0
So where are these supposed videos of 'normal' people interacting with Milo? All I can find is the staged demo.