Jason Bradbury from the UK TV program Gadget Show was invited to a sneak preview of Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal, X-Box add-on.
To say he’s excited about the technology is an understatement! Sounds like MS is making great headway with the tracking and voice recognition.
Looks like this is truly going to be “Game Changing” when it comes out later this year. I have to wonder how what other areas MS are going to implement this, such as Windows, Media Center, Windows Mobile etc?
Here’s the video…
The Xbox Kinect is more than just a family games console, after all you can do a lot more stuff that you can’t do with the Wii. The graphics are better and the Hard Drive storage on the new Xbox is far superior to the Wii. There is no need for controllers which meansless battery and recharging cost. If you have a young family like I do, you don’t have to worry about the kids misusing the controllers or dropping them in there juice. Kinect does have voice recognition so if the kids are getting out of order and reality wrestling rather than virtual wrestling you can just screampause and Kinect will pause. Unfortunately this doesn’t generally work with the kids, well not in my house anyway. There is no doubt your whole family will have a lot of fun with this system and it is taking interactive gaming to another level. To be fair , Microsoft were falling behind a bit recently in the games console world and it’s about time they stepped up to the plate and with Xbox Kinect, they have done exactly that in my opinion. Whether it has bugs or little minor problems remains to be seen and as with all these things, the proof is in the ongoing sales rather than the initial sales onslaught of inquisitive techno-holics who buy any new gadget released.