Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience. Yes gamers, this is what you think it is. It's a controller free game system, almost virtual reality. Microsoft (creator of the xbox line) unveiled natal in June 2009 at the E3 games industry expo in Los Angeles.A player standing anywhere between 0.8 and 4 metres from Natal is illuminated with infrared light. A monochrome video camera records how much of that light they reflect, using the brightness of the signal to approximate their distance from the device and capture their movements in 3D.This means Natal doesn't require users to wear markers on their body - unlike the technology used by movie studios to animate CGI figuresMotion capture normally requires massive processing power, and paring down the software to run on an everyday games console was a serious challenge, says Natal's lead developer, Alex Kipman. "Natal has to work on the existing hardware without taking too much hardware processing away from the games developers." Natal, a small box that sits on top of an xbox 360, should come on sale late 210. Soon, Microsoft wants to put this technology in computers. Imagine what that would be like. Wow! You can read more at the xbox natal main page here http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/ If you're interested in more about how the natal works, you can go here
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