Project Natal honored as one of Time's 50 Best Inventions of 2009 |
We haven't seen much of Project Natal after the E3 demo, but the Xbox
360 motion camera seems to have gained a lot of attention outside
gaming realms. Even Time took an interest to it. In fact, it impressed
them so much that it earned itself a place among the ranks of Time's 50
Best Inventions of 2009.Project Natal makes it to the list as #5, "Controller-Free Gaming," which Microsoft pushes to be one of Natal's key selling points. According to the entry's write-up:
Since time immemorial — or at least since Pong — one barrier that has stood between gamers and total Tron-like immersion in their video games has been the controller: the joystick, trackball, mouse, light gun or whatever. This year Microsoft demonstrated a technology, code-named Project Natal, that enables players to control games using only body movements and voice commands, no controller required — the gamer's body becomes the controller. Project Natal uses several cameras, plus a highly specialized microphone and a lot of fancy software, to track the gamer's body and interpret his or her voice. You move your hand, and the Master Chief (or whoever) moves his hand. It's that simple. And that cool.
Other notable entries on that list are:
#1 - NASA's Ares Rockets
#3 - US$10 million lightbulb
#6 - Teleportation
#8 - AIDS Vaccine
#40 - The Edible Race Car
If you're curious, there doesn't seem to be any Marble Cake showing up, so maybe the list is hack-free this time. Wanna see the rest of it? Check it our via the source below.
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Omgar, that's not true. They were paid by M$, i swear i'll kill myself if this thing ever does better than the sony motion controller. -FelisCatus TrueStory
=D
THE GAME
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Aids vaccine not worthy for top 1, i know its old news but how is a rocket more important than hundreds of thousands of lives...or teleportation 4 that matter?
Perhaps you should go to the source and check each of then. Imo this is a pretty well done list.
Time thinks that Project Natal, A camera that just seems to be years behind in innovation, helping to simulate the fantasies of being a pedifile, AND THEN SOME is the the best invention @ No.5?? WTFKFKFKFKFKFKF K????
Milo (kid in Proj.Natal) was the only 3D character this generation to ever scare the sh#t outta me even more than Alma Wade...
how can a minor improved version of something be so "innovative" that it is called fifth most innovative object of 2009?
Easy, just ask MS to copy sony's EyeToy.
The motion controller has been around for a long time. PS2 had this tech with the eye toy, before Wii. It was Nintendo that really gave the the technology the recognition it has now. PS3 will now have the Wii-like Wand, hoping to emulate the Wii and produce the graphics that Nintendo lacks. Yet Microsoft gets and award for a fake demo (yes people Milo isn't real). Dont get me wrong, the Tech is great. This proves that advertising can make or break anything.
This thing hasn't even released yet.....Still prototype so not really a invention until it has a proper final release.....
But hey it has teleportation on that table...delusional judges probably played Halo a bit tooooo much.......