E3 2009: Project Natal demo

Friday, June 5, 2009

One of the most amazing gizmos unveiled at this year's E3 game developers conference was Microsoft's Project Natal, a game control system that uses motion capture technology to record your body's movements so every kick and punch can be acted out in real time by your onscreen avatar.

The techie geek in me is drooling, but as a clumsy, lazy person, I see a lot of potential problems with this set-up. Most of us aren't that athletic. If we start jumping around, doing crazy ninja kicks in our living rooms, we're going to be crashing into things, breaking our furniture (not to mention our bones,) giving ourselves hernias and stepping on our cats. If the average, pudgy gamer starts trying to do crazy kung-fu like the lady in this video, he's going to have a heart attack and die, right there in front of his TV. I predict that mere weeks after this thing launches, we'll be seeing dead or grievously injured geeks by the thousands. Decades hence, history will know this awful time as the Project Natal Disaster.

But all that aside, it does look neat.




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