Project Natal Makes Time's List of Top Inventions for 2009
Time has published its list of the Project Natal [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1934027,00.html].
What earns Tron [http://www.microsoft.com]-like immersion" in videogames. Project Natal requires nothing but a willingness to wave various parts of your body around as required by the game; as the list puts it, "the gamer's body becomes the controller."
"You move your hand, and the Master Chief (or whoever) moves his hand," the site says. "It's that simple. And that cool."
Of course, whether or not Project Natal (and yes, fanboys, Sony's motion controller too, although the "wand" would seem to run contrary to the idea of truly controller-free gaming) becomes the Next Big Thing remains an open question, but even if it should tank, the technology and the potential it represents isn't going away. Someday we'll be able to ride Light Cycles by straddling our coffee tables and when that magic moment arrives, there will be no denying it: It really will be that cool.
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Time has published its list of the Project Natal [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1934027,00.html].
What earns Tron [http://www.microsoft.com]-like immersion" in videogames. Project Natal requires nothing but a willingness to wave various parts of your body around as required by the game; as the list puts it, "the gamer's body becomes the controller."
"You move your hand, and the Master Chief (or whoever) moves his hand," the site says. "It's that simple. And that cool."
Of course, whether or not Project Natal (and yes, fanboys, Sony's motion controller too, although the "wand" would seem to run contrary to the idea of truly controller-free gaming) becomes the Next Big Thing remains an open question, but even if it should tank, the technology and the potential it represents isn't going away. Someday we'll be able to ride Light Cycles by straddling our coffee tables and when that magic moment arrives, there will be no denying it: It really will be that cool.
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