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Why, if it isn’t a Project Natal camera in the flesh. And naturally, it’s perched on a Gorillapod. Wait, what? Come take a good looks folks: this is a first chance to see what you’ll be perching on top of your TV come Christmas.

In a blog post this week on the Seattle Times, Brier Dudley reports about a Taiwanese manufacturer’s involvement in making the motion sensing Project Natal add-on for the Xbox 360, blithely throwing in a picture of a Project Natal camera in the wild and giving us our first real clue as to what the finished version will look like. Only without the Gorillapod, obviously.


Official: Project Natal coming Christmas


The Project Natal prototype is reportedly a model that’s been given out to game development studios, and being used to test the first games in time for the official launch at Christmas.

Sadly, the accompanying pricetag for Project Natal is still unknown, but we’re hoping if it’s this small (and cute – it looks just like a Minoru 3D webcam) that it’ll end up in the £50 price bracket sources have predicted. Stay tuned for more as we hear it.

Out Christmas | £TBC | Microsoft (Via The Seattle Times)

  • Manic Miner

    The team in the other office have the dev kit, and it’s really not living up to the hype the media are giving it. Sure it’s still beta hardware, but nothing substantial is going to change at this stage. The unit is VERY laggy and has real trouble with recognition and accuracy. Apparently Microsoft have told them the recognition MAY improve with some new libraries they are sending out next month, but the devs here don’t seem that hopeful.

    Every day that passes, Natal is sounding more and more like an overhyped failure, at least from here (where here is, I can’t say, obviously)

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