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360 Microsoft's Project Natal

Seth

Seth

MD Party Room
Cryox

Cryox

Bro.
It looks pretty cool. It has potential. I am curious as to what Natal means, if anything. Was it like two peoples names combined or what?
 
Joey

Joey

New Member
If it actually works that's well, it'd be interesting... I don't know how the people living in the apartment below me feel about this wonderful technology.
 
T

TheMasterChef

The Groove Jesus
I think this is Microsoft's "Fuck You" to Nintendo.

I have no doubt that Sony will try to get on the action too, even though they released the EyeToy.
 
PSPHax0r9

PSPHax0r9

Quality Haxing Since 1991
Heh, I'm not a big fan of these n-controller technologies, but this definitely seems like the best implementation yet. Muuuch better than the Wiimote and much more serious than the EyeToy.
 
twelve

twelve

I'm not dead
If this has proper 1:1 full body control then it's technically outstanding. I don't care for it at all though.
 
M

madsoul

Member
hehe

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anyway, i think it looks pretty cool. although i like sonys new controller alot better since it worked so damn fast and smooth.

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Seth

Seth

MD Party Room
Project Natal
If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Natal. If you haven't seen the vision video, it is definitely worth checking out:


Now, I should preface by saying I don't deserve credit for anything that you saw at E3. A large team of very smart, very hard working people were involved in building the demos you saw on stage. The part I am working on has much more to do with making sure this can transition from the E3 stage to your living room - for which there is an even larger team of very smart, very hard working people involved. The other thing I should say is that I can't really reveal any details that haven't already been made public. Unfortunately.

Speaking as someone who has been working in interface and sensing technology for nearly 10 years, this is an astonishing combination of hardware and software. The few times I’ve been able to show researchers the underlying components, their jaws drop with amazement... and with good reason.

The 3D sensor itself is a pretty incredible piece of equipment providing detailed 3D information about the environment similar to very expensive laser range finding systems but at a tiny fraction of the cost. Depth cameras provide you with a point cloud of the surface of objects that is fairly insensitive to various lighting conditions allowing you to do things that are simply impossible with a normal camera.


But once you have the 3D information, you then have to interpret that cloud of points as "people". This is where the researcher jaws stay dropped. The human tracking algorithms that the teams have developed are well ahead of the state of the art in computer vision in this domain. The sophistication and performance of the algorithms rival or exceed anything that I've seen in academic research, never mind a consumer product. At times, working on this project has felt like a miniature “Manhattan project” with developers and researchers from around the world to coming together to make this happen.

We would all love to one day have our own personal holodeck. This is a pretty measurable step in that direction.

Xbox and Microsoft deserve an enormous amount of credit for taking on such an ambitious project. It’s one thing to say “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”, but it’s another thing entirely to say, “let’s dedicate the resources to really make it happen inventing whatever needs to be invented along the way.” I have to say it's pretty neat building the future.
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Procrastineering - Project blog for Johnny Chung Lee: Project Natal

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Side note is he is a Wii hacker.
 
Pokemanz master

Pokemanz master

Lowering your IQ
"I do not like this at all, anyone who seen the milo thing should be scared.
It was pretty sweet starting of the video able to play few games just like ps2 eyetoy but....some of it gose little to far.
Its like WoW player+This=wow.....no life 100%"
this was comment I seen on youtube I have to agree with it, really a AI system milo....what if its start mess with your xbox and crap. Movie plox already been done.
 
Robby

Robby

Los Doyers!
The Wii controller is pretty good I think, haven't had no problems with it and I don't really notice a difference with the motion+ attachment.
 
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