Microsoft “Project Natal” Video Updates..

Xbox 360 Project NATAL – Official E3 First Look

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E3 2009: Project Natal Milo demo

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Project Natal – Live Demonstration – E3 2009 Microsoft conference Xbox 360

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Project Natal Rumor

Project Natal not on the Xbox 360?

1up.com is reporting a rumor that Project Natal might come out on a system that isn’t the Xbox 360. Sounds like a pointless post-E3 rumor, but it does seem possible. What are your thoughts??

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Microsoft “Project Natal” ..

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Microsoft has announced their Xbox Project Natal system, a full body motion control system which we were speculating about in the run-up to E3, so it’s nice to see that not only did they announce their answer to the Nintendo Wii motion control system, but one that would certainly appear from the demonstration/concept videos to go well beyond it!

It’s been around 2 years or more since I first started thinking “why don’t Microsoft just come up with a Wii remote-style controller? – surely it’s not that hard to do?” Well it would appear that they had larger plans for their Xbox 360 console than simply copying the Wii!

Since there is no controller required for this system, so how does it work? Well Microsoft are using some custom technology including a 3D depth camera that also uses facial and voice recognition all integrated into a single small box which is placed above or below your TV.

No word on when we can expect to see this in our living rooms just yet, so it’ll be 2010 at very earliest, however perhaps this will help to extend the life of the current Xbox 360 console as interestingly Microsoft have said:

“Natal will work with every Xbox 360 we’ve sold and every Xbox in the future. We can leap into the future of interactive entertainment without launching a new console.”

Anyway, enough of me trying to put this into words, just take a look at the following videos about the Xbox Project Natal full motion controller, see what you think to this and then leave a comment below, do you think this could be an important step for the future of gaming, especially for the casual gaming market that Nintendo seem to have sewn up right now, should this have Nintendo worried about their successful Wii drying up? Can Microsoft beat them at their own game??