The dawning of a new age of corpse-humping
At least that’s what I think on Microsoft’s new super-feature, the Natal (Nə-tahl). My office is kind enough to provide satellite TV in the break room, so I tuned in to E3 on G4, and saw a Microsoft mouthpiece giving a talk about it.
At first I was thinking it could never work – a pie on the sky piece of vaporware. But from what little I saw, it is an add-on device bigger than the Wii Sensor Bar with more brains. There are apparently 2 cameras to sense 3D movement as opposed to the more “traditional” one, like webcams or the EyeToy and PSEye for the PS2 and 3 respectively. Coupled with a microphone (stereo?), it can pair an audio source with a physical moving body. Neat.
I’m skeptical though, so we’ll see…
Tags: it'll never work, skeptical