Natal Price Answer: Less then $20 to make

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superchunk said:

noslodecoy said:
Superchunk is right. However, 3DV was hoping to launch their solution below $99.00 which would include a price markup for profit. I'd venture that MS would launch the unit at selling price just above cost.

I'm confident it will sell below $100 ($99.99 price tags included ;) and would even place odds on it selling for what the vision cam retails for now.

3DV were hoping to price 'thier' product, the depth camera, at $99. Again, only one componant of the whole. At best this completely Natal product of a depth camera, regular camera, mic, processing unit of some kind, various other hardware and software including state of the art voice recognition software will be $99 or more at launch in late 2010 at best.

Their product was a depth camerea, RGB camera, and a processing unit.  This was supposed to be manufactered by the end of 2008. As the price of components decrease over time, and a mic being a very cheap piece of hardware, below $99.00 is more then feasable.  Especially when you consider the product is most likely over a year away.

The link below provides the specs of what 3DV was offering:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/microsofts-project-natal-roots-revealed-3dv-systems-zcam/