Creative Director Kudo Tsunosa gives Jimmy, The Office's John Krasinski, and True Blood's Stephen Moyer a demonstration of Microsoft's controller-free gaming technology Project Natal from last nights show.
lol @ johnny's video. Natal is soooo revolutionary!!!
If you look in the youtubes comment section you will find all your community trolls. Socomnick is there claiming the PS3 as a failure and predicting its cancellation in 2010.
Requirements: One red jumpsuit At least three windows in your room At leat three light bulbs burning at all times Must not have dark skin Must not have stuff moving in background
Impressive that it was working in a studio (lighting is tricky). So I think that's why they had to use the red suit... Don't worry, they surely won't be mandatory : ) Dark skin is not a problem either as shown in many demos, and one demo was shown with somebody walking in the background with no effect.
Wondering why there was tape on the floor though... Not for camera angles, this was strange... Hope I don't have to tape my living room!
Here's a picture from Joystick that show that sync still need a lot of work. (Jimmy's leg is way up, and on tv, both legs of the avatar are still well planted on the floor.)
Isn't it funny how M$ blatantly rips off the Eye Toy and the media goes bat sh!t crazy but when Sony implemented the trophy systems it was "TEH SONIZ DUUUMZ" or "SONIZ PLEYZ CATCHUP AGAIN".
Microsoft stated you can play with this under minimal lighting conditions.. Hack they stated, you can play this game in the DARK. So why you would need a shiny orange jump suit.. is beyond me.
Unless it's the obvious reason.. Jimmy and everyone else were waring black suits.. the Camera has a hard time picking up darker colors. So they had to wear orange jump suits.
Wow Natal need alot of work. When Jimmy is playing Burnout I see his hands trying to turn the car to the right but the car goes left for 3 or 4 seconds longer. Playing with natal is like playing online. There will always be lag, which sucks.
Some of the comments just ooze with jealousy. It's so funny. ALso, millions of people that didn't see E3 got to see Natal during this show. That could only be a good thing for Microsoft. Perhaps this is what has the Hardcore PS3 FanFanatic shaking in his/her boots (cough above).
@Real Gambler - That picture.. It may be like that because the game hasn't necessarily started yet? But, no doubt, it still does need work. And, is still a work in progress.
i won't argue that the technology is perfect. i'm really not even very excited for it.
but, the part you're talking about is because jimmy falon is a mumbling stumbling retard and a spaz. right off the bat he burned out which is why the car did that. haven't you played burn out? same thing happens when you jam the gas in the game.
also when a person goes off the area of view for the camera and new person steps in, the thing has to reset. so if you jump in and already have your foot forward, it's going to analyze based on that so you'd have to put your foot forward even more. which is why he had to keep stepping forward.
i'm not making excuses, as i said, i'm not blown away by natal at all. some ppl are just quick to denounce anything that isn't a sony product on this site.
and to the guy saying this is a blatant rip off of the eye toy...while the concept is similar, this is far more advanced. and if we're calling ppl out for blatant rip-offs we should probably also mention most of PSN (ideas taken from xbox live), motion sensing wii-mote rip off, home (basically a dumbed down second life clone but designed to hock merchandise), and trophies.
so how about you just stay outta the 360 related articles, you troll.
He tried to show that it was responsive, but it still had quite a delay. More than the 1:1 that Motion Plus and Sony's motion controller. Sony has the same problem with their PSEye games, the delay is minimal but still noticeable enough to be annoying.
They showed pretty much the same stuff as the conference, but a good way to hype up a product, kudos to MS.
...seems to be working better all the time, and theres plenty of time for improvements!
I dont know why all the Sony fanboys have to hate on it so much. Personally, I think the MS Fanboys should be jealous over Sony's glowing vibrator, er, um, Motion Controller. :)
By the way guys, I had Eye Toy. And it was sh*tty. I played it with a group of friends, TWICE, and then never touched it again. If you guys had better experiences, then thats great, but I still doubt it.
LOL @ the people comparing this to Xbox LIVE Vision and eyetoy.
Apparently you dont know the difference between 2 and 3 dimensions.
Here's a protip, have you heard of MS purchase of "3DV Systems" and their **Z**Cam product?
**I HIGHLIGHTED A CLUE FOR YOU**.
Lol. Natal is fracking awesome, it is a 3D camera, with 3D audio sensing - wrapped up in some sweet ass software... and you link to SDF youtube stories!?
Wired, Joystiq, Time, Eurogamer and on and on and on and on are utterly WOW'ed by Natal -- it was just on LATE NIGHT television FFS -- and you pretend like its not awesome.
Here's a newsflash; it is AWESOME and you can pretend otherwise all you like.
@cherrypie - I find it funny how everyone is hyping a product that is unproven. What has been shown so far (live) is stuff that the PSEye and the Eyetoy have been doing for years.
Natal COULD work, but in late 2010, no way is it fully usable now. Every demo they show is in IDEAL conditions, and that's the problem, a test needs to be done unsupervised by a non-biased party.
Sony and Nintendo's stuff can easily be proven, the stuff they showed was LIVE, which means it was fully working.
Every and I mean EVERY single PS3 exclusive that get's announced received massive hype from the fanboys on N4G. Suddenly when 360 fans have something to talk about you can't understand it.
Additionally, there is obviously something different hear that the damn eyetoy or perhaps sony would have done it. Stop hating. And stop being a hypocrit.
Its a FAIL because those are the important points everyone seems to be glossing over. Not to mention to actual implementation into REAL GAMES and not Shovelware wii-apps.
I think fanboys should take off the goggles and realize this is proably on a similar path as HOME was on. Unfortunate, but true.
3D0 Virtual Boy Beta-Max Laser discs New Coke Windows ME (shudders at the mere thought of that OS) WebTV McPizza Crystal Pepsi Apple Newton Arch Deluxe etc.
Point being it happens, despite the seemingly well though out idea. Ultimately only time will tell, but the history of similar devices is against Natal.
I didn't know Selling 22 million worldwide at $400-$600 is considered a failure.
What's selling 30 million at $199 plus a year headstart? Atomic Failure?
You and you're usual trolling. Go play some 360 games already. Oh wait, you have to wait until fall and then E3 of next year to find out what's coming out.
your failure is beyond description, I had no clue that the xbox 360 launched at $199 or that only the arcade model exists and that elite and premium either don't exist or are selling 0 units lol
Also, last i checked, it's all a matter of perspective, the most powerful and popular brand in gaming known as the playstation dominating the gaming scene for more than a decade with two consecutive massive victories over the competition, all that and with over 100 million + potential playstation install base to inherit, and it's still unable to outsell a console that had a failed predecessor, no credibility, slightly inferior tech specs and worst of all a faulty console lol, now that's what i call failure,
Price can never be an excuse, Value is a perception and that's all that matters, if more people are bypassing a well known brand, it's because they don't see the value in it or that they see better value in other things, How do you explain the higher priced iphones outselling every other phone then? or even the ipods? How do you think Apple will feel if their higher priced ipods start all of sudden being outsold by cheaper zunes and garbage mp3 players? When consumers see value and brand name, price is never an excuse,
The demo was interesting and there's nothing really wrong with comparing it to the eyetoy, they basically have the same goal in mind towards what they wanted to do with video games. Natal is just newer tech, nothing wrong with that is there?
Natal uses 3D Depth technology, voice recogntion, facial/emotion recognition. Infrared tech so you can use it in the dark
It's just PS3 fanboys trying to credit Sony for Microsofts innovation.
Did you guys realize yet? Sony created everything in the Sony fanboys opinion. Sure don't hear them complaining about Sony absolutely ripping of the Wii-mote.
Microsoft is smart and chose to stand out and go a different direction from Wii. They should be happy Microsfot is being unique and doing new things(like Milo) and angry Sony is copying everyone else like usual.
is Ripping off of the Wii End of story. Sony and Microsoft is trying to cash in on the Wii's motion success. Until i see some hardcore games for either im skeptical. Personally I hope Microsoft and Sony makes the Wii an afterthought.
@ disagreers
So you honestly think Sony and Microsoft wouldve created these controllers for lack of a better word if the wii was a traditional console or if it wasnt the current leader in console sales??
"Sure don't hear them complaining about Sony absolutely ripping of the Wii-mote."
i like sonys a lot better than the wiis, at least the look and the way it responds. yes it looks like the wiis controller in a way but who cares, the wiis controller is so damn un-accurate it can't even play the wii anymore.
It messed up atleast twice.... They had to wear red jumpsuits whever it's a part of the show or not. Extremely well lit... especially considering it works in the dark They are all white The had to stand in a special box, and he could barely move out of it. One person at time People missing... considering Milo that's strange. Look at 1:53, trust me... it's bam all over again even with better lighting and everything.
I watched the video, picked up on some EASY to spots points and replied stating my opinion on those points. I very much dislike Microsofts welcome to the future slogan WITH inferior technology, don't get me wrong the 360 is great completed Halo 3, L4D and Gears 2 in a week but no one will say it's more powerful that the PS3, it simply isn't. The PS3 is equally great....
That comment made no sense. Stay on topic? I was on topic when I was talking about Microsoft's horrible marketing.
Congratulations! You managed to confuse yourself with the above post. Perhaps if you tried not to juggle multiple accounts you could post logical comments.
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Lag.
Loss of Tactile Feedback.
Big Red jump suits.
Well lit room.
FAIL.FAIL.FAIL.
Jimmy Fallon had a great time with Natal and by the sounds of it he may have been able to take it home for the night... lucky bastard.
You all just keep saying fail, like you're some peeps that know how stuff like this works. A company wouldn't try to release it if it failed.
Go figure the first posts would be stupid ass fanboys.
Nice EyeToy vids btw to bad no one f<>cking uses it.
Good "tech" demo presentation on the Fallon show btw.
It's funny tho is how they take a screenshot of 1 inaccurate moment and dare not show any of the 1:1 moments.