Xbox Fluid = Awesome
 

Was watching TV and heard about this.
Using technologies ranging from face recognition to using hand gestures to move stuff around or steer a car in a game.

Xbox could potentially blow out the Wii with the fluid.

Full article about it:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...e3_in_los.html

Preview combining it with fightnight round 4:



Im pretty stoked to see this in action.

damn thats nice stuff

looks pretty badass.... why you posting associated content links did you write the article?

It was just the best link i could find regarding the xbox fluid

That looks excellent :thumbsup

i take my ps3 still...

looks sweet

Nintendo really captured the market with the Wii, even if Xbox responds Wii will compete.

looks like awesome technology

i think its going to be a mega flop

microsoft can't get their own good idea so they're trying to build on the wii for sure, but the thing is with this machine you actually have to be up and about it looks and thats going to alienate a big chunk of the market like old people who liked the wii because it was a simple way of controlling the game intuitively - but not necessarily liked it because of the whole motion thing but just because it was something different

I'd be interested in this if they don't fuck it up.

The coolest feature I read about so far.. face recognition, so when you walk by the thing, it recognizes you and logs you into xbox live. Could be interesting. I prefer to hold the controller in my hand, but I am not the target for this product.

You are wrong.

This is pretty advanced motion sensing technology. The company they bought it from does military research and applications.

Some of the stuff they showed in the demo was a person writing on a piece of paper, then "handing it" to a character in the game. The camera scanned the writing on the paper and the character took the piece of paper. The characters also recognize you by your face, so that could add a huge element to RPG games.

BTW, the actual system is called Project Natal. From what I've seen, it's waaaay ahead of the Wii. Unless it turns out to be super expensive or the demo was faked, this should be a big hit.

You are right.

I'm sorry, but Wii won't be able to compete with that, face and voice recognition, high-def graphics, and no controller, plus it's multimedia center, there's NO way Wii will stand a chance.

looks like good stuff :thumbsup

With the Wii remote you've got movement and button options. A hands only system would be very limited. Plus I don't see how a webcam is going to detect small movements of the wrist like the Wii can.

never pay for a microsoft product !!!

Here's a few interesting vids of what's to come for the xbox 360

project natal ricochete game demo

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=24954332001

Left 4 Dead 2 trailer

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=24947858001

Forza 3 trailer

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=24945930001

The Wii is just a GameCube with novelty controllers, it'll never be able to keep up.

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i thought it was called natal

looks cool. Will have to see how it improves in the future

...at a fraction of the price.

Heres a video form xbox showing how xbox just destroyed the wii:
http://www.banthis.com/videos/2934/N...ect-Natal.html

interesting

very cool.

It'll all hinge on price...it looks great but especially given the economy, they could still lose by setting too high of a price, which given how much that tech likely cost them, they may have to do. Also, I think some people have a point in that it may be TOO active for some people, namely older people. A karate game where you can actually do karate to play it is nice, but some people would rather press buttons or move a controller around a bit to kick someone's ass instead.

I thought the skateboard game was funny - talk about static electricity builder, lol.

It's not Wii, not all games require the motion camera, you buy games specifically for the camera. I mean, you dont buy guitar hero guitars to play halo..

PS2 eyetoy anyone? Remember that?

This was also developed to work with VISTA and most certainly Windows 7 so the technology is not only aimed at the XBOX 360 or next generation " Netbox " console it is being developed to work with PCs as well.

What seems iffy now will be the standard in just a few short years. 2012 you will probably see this technology in many different applications.

No word as to what the price will be but many experts are predicting somewhere around $80

Yes they can, know how? Old school games, Nintendo owns all of the good ones, and that's what a lot of people I know, and myself, have bought a Wii for. Sure I can pull out my Nintendo, NES, or Sega and just play them, but why risk ruining such a classic piece of machinery that is worth something, when I can buy 1600 Wii points for $20 and buy 3 games and play them all on the Wii?

That alone makes the Wii unique.

Wait, what? I bought the special edition Slash guitar just so I could control Master Chief in a cooler manner. :Oh crap

Wii has worse graphics than the original xbox...360s power plus fluid with be way better