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, “the camera is based on technology that Microsoft developed inside its sprawling research arm,” though it added that, “Microsoft also recently acquired…3DV…which has developed a 3D camera and holds related patents.”