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Project Natal Images
June 6th, 2009 adminThis is the pic of project Natal that was released for the press. It should be noted however that Engadget had hands on impressions with the Natal and has said that it does not look like this.
Why would Microsoft be veiled in releasing too much info in a press photo? Odds are they want to [...]
Project Natal Specs
June 5th, 2009 adminSensor Device
Approximately 9 inch (36 cm) wide horizontal bar connected to a small circular base with a ball point pivot.
The device features an “RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone, and custom processor running proprietary software”, which provides full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition capabilities.
Depth Sensor
The depth sensor consists of an infrared projector [...]
Project Natal Release Date
June 3rd, 2009 adminA collection of some of the rumors circulating around Project Natal’s release date:
The Wall Street Journal speculated back in May that Microsoft was planning on fighting back at the Wii with a motion camera technology of its own that was due to launch sometime next year (2010). The speculation came from Microsoft’s rumored acquisition of [...]
Natal Development
June 3rd, 2009 adminCNet recently speculated that Microsoft’s project Natal is almost certainly the culmination of Microsoft’s purchase of 3DV Systems.
This makes a lot of sense– the Israeli based 3DV and Microsoft have been rumoured to be working on a relationship to take on the Wii for quite some time.
The Wall Street Journal seemed to second this speculation, [...]
Official Project Natal Promo
June 3rd, 2009 adminHere is the video that Microsoft used to introduce Project Natal with. I showed it to my roomates and they were impressed– judging by the enormous pageviews these video’s are racking up, it seems as though the rest of the world is impressed too.
The video basically shows how the Natal might be used to create [...]
Project Natal Paint Demonstration
June 3rd, 2009 adminHere’s an interesting demo of a paint program on Project Natal.
In this (slightly) functional paint program, the user sort of “splashes” paint buckets on to a canvas. It doesn’t exactly seem like a precise way to do a canvas painting– no one is going to paint a Van Gogh using this– but it does give [...]
Project Natal Pricing
June 3rd, 2009 adminThere obviously isn’t a whole lot of information on the Nata releasedl right now. Microsoft has simply given a presentation, but there is already speculation. Here’s some rumors we’ve picked up on:
In Brier Dudley’s Blog he speculates that the Natal will be sold for about $200.
CrunchGear has reported that the Brier’s post went up about [...]
Shotty Motion Capture Demo
June 2nd, 2009 adminOk, so there’s no sound in this video and the production is a little poor. But perhaps this video gives a glimpse as to how reliable the technology is right now (read: not very). It seems as though during the demonstration the Natal is having difficulty smoothly transitioning the 3d signals from the dancer to [...]