Project Natal Exercise Video could be the killer ap

[ironman]

Khuutra said:

ironman said:

I think this video, (which you obviously didn't see) answers your silly gas pedal question since it shows somebody driving a car (even shifting). It also should be a sufficiant reply to your "it needs the ability to tilt" statment, after all, a person can be see at the end of the video surfing movies on netflix with the flick of a wrist. Also, near the middle of the vid, a girl grabs a dress from a menu and puts it onto her avitar. She grabbed it! need I say more? 

So basically, your arguments are VERY shaky. Mine, I actually have facts to back them up and not speculation.

Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus, I didn't realize what I was arguing with here. Hold on. Allow me to collect myself.

Listen. I'm ignoring the rest of this post. You're pretty clear on you not being willing to consider the viewpoint that not all technology is necessarily a linear progression, so that's going to be left alone. The other long paragraph I left out is basically just a repeat of this anyway.

I saw this video. Everyone saw this video. God saw this video. I think my grandmother probably saw this video.

I didn't realize you were using it as a baseline for actually saying what the NATAL could do. This isn't what the NATAL can do. The NATAL's only real-world application so far is that dodgeball thinger. This video? It's all simulated. THat's conceptual.

None of that is real.

Even in the video, there's no way to control the acceleration of the car. Or turn when you're riding a skateboard. Or do a lot of things in games that we consider very normal.

Please tell me I misunderstood and that you're just saying that all of that will be possible with NATAL because you believe Microsoft's extremely optimistic predictions instead of you actually thinking that that was real. Because after that whole spiel about how the girl driving the car was a proof of concept...

Wow.

I've never said this before, not in my entire history at VGChartz, but your argument just crashed and burned so spectacularly I think I could just walk away right now and not do any more damage to it.

Damn straight you didn't realize who you were arguing with. I'm not letting you off that easy. That video is a representation of what MS want NATAL to do. It is also a Demo, meaning that they were (let me speak slowly here) d-e-m-o-n-s-t-r-a-t-i-n-g it's capabilities. In case you didn't see the vid (I still don't believe you did, otherwise we would not be having this debate) there is a girl in there driving a race car, she happens to be pretending to hold a steering wheel, when she moves her hands, the car turns. Its a pretty simple concept, why you can't grasp that is beyond me. Lets put it this way, this technology is already alive and working in the PC world. That right their trashes your whole argument. Also, ALL technology follows a linear progression. No way around it, there are certainly branches off that linear progress, but each branch progresses in a linear fashion.  I would say walk away before you pour gasoline on the ashes that were your argument, and light it on fire...buuuut, I am a pyro at heart, so, light away!