E3 - Microsoft's Natal project gets a name: Xbox360 Kinect
Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 11:55 PM BST
Microsoft’s E3 kickoff event on Sunday night was Cirque du Soleil put on a show created entirely for Project Natal, the camera-based controller that will bring motion and voice control to Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
The big news? Project Natal is now named Kinect
Kinect uses multiple cameras to track users’ body movements, translating their motion into game controls. You might control a car-racing game by pretending to grip a steering wheel in the air, or a tennis game by swinging an imaginary racket.
Microsoft will release the Xbox 360 device later this year.
Will this be a revolutionary product? Microsoft certainly thinks so. “History is about to be rewritten,” boomed over the loudspeakers, “Human beings will be at the center, and the machine will be the one that adapts."
The Microsoft Kinect Motion Sensor Launches November 4th 2010 and will cost $149
