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Natal dev details coming in February at Gamesfest conferences |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Japan, Microsoft, UK, xbox 360 titles
Can't wait to find out more about Natal, aren't you? After Microsoft's denial on the rumors of Natal's release date, we now get something more concrete as regards the release of new information for the said technology.Official word is coming, but you're gonna have to wait till February of 2010 to get it. The big reveal for Natal is going to happen at the Microsoft Gamesfest conferences that month. With the event taking a year off in the scene, it now promises to bring more surprises sure to delight gamers. The 2010 MS Gamesfest conferences have events planned and lined up for the USA, the UK and Japan.
In the conferences, Microsoft will be featuring "two full tracks solely dedicated to disclosing never-before seen details of game development using Project Natal." One track will focus on designing for Natal:
Project Natal not only revolutionizes the way people play games, but also changes the way games are designed and created. The Project Natal Design track will present innovative thinking and ideas to help you take your game from office to living room -- creating new ways to work, building showcase experiences, diving user intent, and designing gestures for UI versus game interactions. Discover best practices and what makes the "magic" in a Project Natal game.
The other track, meanwhile, will cover the technical aspects of the camera peripheral:
Project Natal provides a groundbreaking new way for games to use natural user motion to interact with the Xbox 360. Experience the future now, with this cutting-edge technology! Join us to learn how to develop world-class titles using Project Natal, which provides many exciting new features that can be challenging to programmers. In the Project Natal Technical track, we will walk you through how to overcome these challenges with a combination of classic techniques and new thinking. We will explore the depths of this exciting technology and dive deep into gesture recognition, avatar retargeting, speech recognition, advanced raw stream processing, handling different player environments, and many other topics. No controller required!
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Via Develop
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I'm not much of a 360 fan myself but they are not evil HAHAHAH.....
And i really love my PC with windows/Linux Woot woot lol
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Do i need to say more?
I hate them for that but the only thing useful they did now was Windows 7, but i would never buy Hardware of them just software that what they should stick with not all this bull*****,,,,
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You think he was open about running deathcamps to the German people or that he had a lamp shade made out of the skins of the jewish people?
You're more of an idiot than I had ever thought previously Catfeceslover.
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Apple and Sony are just as bad for the type of ***** that MS pull, for example have a look at the iPhone 3GS, released only a year and a half after the iPhone 3G. Apple's claim is that the 3G hardware just isn't capable of doing voice dialing, is just blatant sales mongering, Nokia phones have been doing voice dialing since late last century.
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but if you insist take it all the way...
mac + xerox "rip off"
cell + multi-core "rip off"
eyetoy + web cam "rip off"
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As for Mas's OS, Bill Gates Helped make it and then improved the idea and Made Windows so in short Windows is NOT a rip off it's just a improvement of the Apple 2's OS AKA (MAC)
it's sad that the kids today never Look up the Info for them self's, They just go by word of mouth or just make up something that suites them.
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But yeah you are right, but what I mean is that they've been doing this more than any other company. Instead of creating a new way to play like Nintendo did they just take something older and perfect it. But i see Sony coming with something better with both a camera and a motion controller.
And to rollypoly... Cell is not a multicore ripoff that is just going far... and eyetoy ripoff a webcam?? Since when you played webcam games? I havent seen any before the eyetoy came out?
LOL thats enough i think my point is clear
Another thing there is so much stuff at this age that is hard to make something new. The only way is to stick with the old and make it better. Amen
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Which by your logic makes it a Wiimote rip off. Strange you failed to mention that, or is ok when it's a company you like does it, but not ok when it's a company you don't like. :)
Both the Wiimote and PS wand are a combination of webcam and motion wand together (the webcam is at the end of the Wiimote). So 'all' Sony are doing (to use your words) is "frabing someone else's stuff and makijg it it better".
And the Wiimote wasn't 'invented' by Nintendo, it was designed/developed by a team from the company Gyration, who had been making motion sensing PC mice for years. They approached Nintendo because they thought Nintendo would be interested in a motion controller (they were and the rest is history). If Nintendo rejected the idea, then Gyration would have gone to either Sony or Microsoft next, and so gaming history could have been very different.
Hence the point rollypoly is making is that technology builds upon the past, very little of it is actually new, most of it is about taking something that already exists and improving it.
There's nothing wrong with progress, and Natal represents significant progress over EyeToy. In fact, I would even say it's what the creator of EyeToy always hoped for in future, but never got there (probably due to Sony choosing a different direction for their motion control tech).
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As for companies copying each other it's normal! It's all about adding something new! If companies couldn't copy, we'd only be driving Fords, we'd only have Ataris (since the Atari 2600 was the first home console), we'd only have Osborne branded laptops (history of laptops: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htm), we'd only have Xbox Live (since Xbox Live was the first of it's kind network for home consoles.), we wouldn't have Linux, Windows or Mac OS (since the original idea for the "window" system which all three of those OS use, was build my Xerox FIRST, not the Linux Consortium, Apple, or Microsoft.) we wouldn't have the iPhone either. It wasn't the first phone with a color screen, it wasn't the first phone with copy and paste, it wasn't the first phone with a touch screen, it wasn't the first phone with a camera, it wasn't the first in a lot of things. But what it did do was pioneer new was of thinking for phones. Have a CAPACITIVE touch screen versus having a resistive touch screen and introducing the concept of the App Stone to MOBILE PHONES! It did not introduce the concept of a mobile store since other devices have had one before it in some shape or form. We'd have no choices at all if companies weren't allowed to copy and make things better. In a way that would be good since it would get rid of fanboy/girl-ism...
But really, we should be glad that things like this happen. If Sega didn't prove the internet gaming was worthwhile, there would be no XBL, PSN, NN (Nintendo Network). Sony and Nintendo thought the idea of online gaming was stupid. That's why they were caught off guard with there online plans. Microsoft knew it was important since they worked with Sega on the Dreamcast and because they're in the PC space, they can really see how important online gaming is. If it wasn't for XBL, the PSN would be no where near the level it is today or for that matter would it even exist? It really wasn't until the Xbox 1 showed up that console market had really changed. They turned it upside-down! And now look at all the new and cool stuff from all the console makes! They all need each other. Sony needs MS, MS needs Sony, Nintendo need Sony, Nintendo needs MS. Stop hating and actually play games! A true gamer goes where he or she believes the good games are at for THEM! NOT the system. Follow the games not the system!
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if you want to get all "but this isn't the same"...
nintendo didn't reinvent the wheel, they actually took something microsoft did long ago (motion sensing controller) and ran with it. same thing with the miis, microsoft did it long ago, they just tweaked it.
cell is the same thing, they took a standard CPU and added more special helper processing units.
web cam again... something that existed previously with new software (the games).
none of anything mentioned here is revolutionary, it's all evolutionary.
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Hell not even the Nintendo it's self is a New way, it's just a updated Atari they just added 2 buttons and updated to 8bits +P
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