Is a Natal / 3D system the future of videogames?

[JaggedSac]

Gnizmo said:

JaggedSac said:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=90211&page=1

I attempted a thread where game ideas for Natal would be thrown around, but it got very, very little attention.  Perhaps people are more interested in what it cannot do than in what it can do.

That is hard to tell at this stage. The practical limits of the camera are entirely unknown to the general public. It could be an extremely powerful and cool new device, or it could be a glorified camera. Until we start seeing it in action first hand it is all speculation really. The general technology itself has some really good potential, but we need to figure out what would even be possible. There is long term potential, but until we see how successful Natal is we won't know if there will be people investing into the future tech.

I agree, but even the ideas I came up with in the thread were using techniques that are definitely available to Natal.  Hopefully they make their SDK documentation publicly available.  It would be a very fascinating read.