(NextBox) game seen in public, and it is an old friend.

[Dodece]

@thranx

Sorry I didn't follow up with my friend. I am kind of flabbergasted by the whole situation, and at the time nobody here seemed all that interested in following up on the lead. I honestly don't know where he is going with the whole thing. Whether he thinks he can find other sources to back up the story, or whether he was really that good of a friend with the guy. Anyway it is his job to find out after all, and if he does find some kind of hard evidence he might be making a article in a few days. Who knows.

@DanneSandin

I actually did a fair amount of research after listening to the interview, but I kept my speculations to myself since they weren't explicitly stated by the source. I honestly think that people are so caught up in the whole Holodeck concept. That they are overlooking that a built in projector could offer up a real force multiplier when it come to motion controls. After all if the projector could create images on floors or walls. Then the Kinect could allow for people to interact with those images.

The possibilities would be virtually endless. Not just for motion control games, but for core games as well. Oddly enough it doesn't even seem to be financially unfeasible either. This technology is becoming common in small portable devices. So it probably wouldn't add a great deal of cost to the overall device. I know people gripe that there would be surfaces it couldn't paint, but then again don't those same gripes hold true for Kinect already. It isn't like every room is big enough to play Kinect games in. This would actually be more convenient. All you need after all is just a big piece of black paper, and you could create any controller layout you so desired.

Anyway like I told my friend. Not only did it seem plausible, but it seems like the most logical solution to a real big problem. Namely that the Kinect isn't very useful as a game playing device. Interacting with projections would actually make the device more user friendly, and even developer friendly. Further more I think it is the future of the market, and that would only give Microsoft a incentive to create a product even if it is a intermediate one.