Lead developer exposes Natal inner-workings

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MDMAniac said:

The lead designer added that he and his team had collected "terabytes" of data of people making poses likely to appear during game play.

 

I don't understand. Does it mean that Natal recognizes only a certain "likely to appear" poses? So it's not like a developer can design a game specifically about it's capabilities?

Basically, they have captured and stored all the possible configurations of the human body and use them to match the Natal output to one of them.  Developers can forego MS's solution and use their own if they choose.