Microsoft's Project Natal = Wii killer?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10253892-235.html

 

It's interesting technology, but a Wii killer it is not.

The obvious problem for me at least is that to a random casual consumer of the type that has made the Wii a success, this on first play will not seem that different to the Eye Toy.

 

Sounds cool. I'd like to try that system out.

 

http://kotaku.com/5276789/from-stick-figure-to-mind blowing-controls

 

Now add in some holograms to use as an interface and you have some really futuristic stuff. Imagine if it could project a floating music interface (a simple play, pause, stop, skip and volume) within 1 1/2" feet of you while you walked around your living room. It would see your hand motions, and perform the controls. Or, it could just read some simple hand gestures and turn them into controls.
Thumbs up for play, peace for pause (because it's two fingers like a pause symbol) hook your right them in a get out of here manner to skip forward, same on the left to skip back, make a fist to stop playback and mimic turn a volume nob up or down to turn the music up or down.

This would be awesome!

 

I don't think we're gonna have to wait for the 24th Century for the holodeck.

 

Things are certainly moving in that direction.

 

Suddenly that line "you have to use your hands?" from Back To the Future Part II seems eerily prescient.

 

Now, can we have a 3-D videogame-looking desktop?

I'd be happy for a while with that.

 

Sounds wesme!

Will buy so long as it's not criminally overpriced

If its maximum price is 300 bucks I won't miss it for all the tea in China

 

seriously doubt anything will kill the wii, much less match it's appeal to octogenarians.

 

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I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion about this. I just heard about it today and the video looks amazing.

 

I can already tell that Littleflow is going to need one.

 

I think it's just the project's name, the final product will have some other name.

 

When this product hits the market we're going to have to pic up whatever version of NCAA works with it and do battle... speaking of NCAA, where is your thread?

 

I think that this will eventually replace the current Wii controls, but it will still take some years until MS comes out with a fully playable model. And I also think that while this is amazing, the next big step to accompany it will be feedback, and I'm not sure how soon we can get that without some bit of machinery touching our bodies. Of course, this is alos a prerequisite for a holodeck.

 

It comes out in 2010.

Even meant to be working on a model that is built in to the xbox.

 

I'll believe that Natal works much better than an Eyetoy when I see it. Up to now all I have seen is a bunch of pre-visualization videos and a pedophile grooming simulator.

 

I predict this will be called... Nintendo Hii.