Project Natal demo was fake?

Posted on Friday, 5 June 2009 by Speed, source: Spong

The guys over at Spong have taken a closer look at the video footage taken during the Microsoft conference at E3 and have noted some strange things happening.

Fast forward to 2:36 on the video, where Claire (or Clare) plays with the water. The reflection of Clare on screen shows her arms in roughly the correct positions in respect to real Clare. The water seems to be moving based in her hand movements.

However, keep watching to the point (2:37) where she appears to make a rippled appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Real Clare's arms are almost crossed in front of her. 'Reflected' Clare's arms are spread out. Even more startling is the fact that (see the screenshot) the ripple begins before Clare begins her gesture.

Says Peter Molyneux at this point, "There Clare is, in Milo's world. She's in that pond. Every hand movement is being recognised." Well, from the look of the footage is seems that either every hand movement is being pre-recognised, which is even more of an achievement.

Check out the trailer below. Add about 25 seconds to the timings of Spong as we don't have the exact same length of trailer:

So... real or fake? Bad acting, bad editing or actual recognition? You decide for yourself :)

I can't embed it, stupid thing.

http://www.fragland.net/news/Project-Natal-demo-was-fake/20767/

Oh noez. We might have another Killzone 2 on our hands! D:

And then like K2 the actual product does meet the fake that they made.

Yeah that's right, Natal not only senses your movements, it preempts them

I hardly doubt they would go through all of that effort to fake something. This is the moon landing all over again.

yea its interesting to watch the video. I didn't notice any issues at the time. It looks like she was pulling her hand back from the screen when a ripple started. Can someone embed it please.

That video was probably fake. Does it matter? They allowed people to play with the system and people actually commented on how the water thing worked.

"I sat down while my MTV Multiplayer blog successor Russ Frushtick tried the next part of the Milo demo. He stood in front of the TV as Milo approached him and then, using his hands to make goggles over his face, he initiated an EyeToy-style novelty. He waved his hands to make the water ripple. "

http://kotaku.com/5275204/testing-molyneuxs-milo-a-virtual-boy-with-yes-a-dog

"Once Claire's portion was over, we took Milo out for a spin. For my part, I walked with Milo over to the pier, grabbed the goggles that he threw at me, performatively snatching at the air, having already seen the video during the earlier keynote presentation. To put them "on" I had to make loops with my thumbs and pointer fingers and wrap them around my eyes. A guide on the bottom of the screen instructed me to make them just so. Goggles on, I leaned over the pier and splashed a reflection of myself in the water. I could drag a finger around or make a larger splash with my hand. I could even ripple the water by "lowering" my head towards the screen. And that was about it for my section (see above: brief!). But the most impressive thing I saw happened next."

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/02/taking-a-walk-with-milo-molyneuxs-project-natal-game/

Talk about wasting your time blogging about stupid shit.

It's the only thing I could think of that people keep saying was faked. Anyway, my point is...we will see soon enough whether it is fake or not.

To embed it you have to use the youtube link instead of the other since the other link is to an article with the video.

Who cares if it was faked? It's too late for MS to catch up to Nintendo.