E3 creepy! (Project Natal - Let's Meet Milo)

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:24 pm

This was on the news. Thought I'd share for those who missed it. Those who've tried it, say it's weird.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:58 am

i saw it on Live and to me thats kinda creepy cause think of what all the psycos will do.

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:06 pm

Instead of a hot model or an actress (female) they went with a twelve year old boy... hmmmm... Yeah wtf.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:30 pm

Not really possible yet... at least apart from pre-scripted stuff. Computers aren't so good at pretending to understand what people are saying; interpreting speech into words is one thing, but figuring out how to act on them is entirely another. There have been impressive efforts before, but not THAT good.

Other thing is speech synthesis isn't (I think) that good yet. What you're probably seeing is pre-recorded, pre-animated sequences - and, at best, the computer is guessing which one to take.

Even that aside, the reflection/\"multi-touch\" trick is quite cool and need not be faked.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:33 pm

Only two things got me, but they got me really good: the goggles and the reflection. My hair on my neck actually did stand up when her reflection appeared in the water.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:34 pm

Natal is cool looking I like the idea of no controler but I wonder how good it is.

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:28 pm

I already get out of breath using a mouse and keyboard on multilayer games... Now I have to move my whole body!?

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:40 am

lol :(

That said, obviously you're not going to be playing high-activity games on this for long. Not many would/could play football for 6 hours straight either. But if you just want something different, or don't play very much, then sure...

Drakona · Post by **Drakona** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:52 pm

Heh, they're too in love with the technology. You have to build something cool with it, too. The interface has potential, but seriously . . . if the best they could come up with to demonstrate it was \"you can catch objects\" and \"you can swirl water around\", that's a bad sign. I mean, I already have a pretty high fidelity environment in which I can do that stuff.

Now, when it's letting me use my hand as a gun or grading my handwork and magic word pronounciation before shooting lightning from my fingertips or letting me spontaneously fly by flapping my arms . . . then I might give it more attention.

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:14 am

Drakona wrote:Heh, they're too in love with the technology. You have to build something cool with it, too. The interface has potential, but seriously . . . if the best they could come up with to demonstrate it was "you can catch objects" and "you can swirl water around", that's a bad sign. I mean, I already have a pretty high fidelity environment in which I can do that stuff.

Now, when it's letting me use my hand as a gun or grading my handwork and magic word pronounciation before shooting lightning from my fingertips or letting me spontaneously fly by flapping my arms . . . then I might give it more attention.

Here's another NATAL vid I found. Not sure if it's real or not but it looks like what you're talking about.

E3 creepy! (Project Natal - Let's Meet Milo)

E3 creepy! (Project Natal - Let's Meet Milo)

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