This is all about hype (and possibly MS had to do something to counter Sony's motion thingie which is way further ahead than Milo at this time).

I am actually old enough to remember "Eliza" (we all had it running on our AppleII clones). Eliza was exactly what Milo is (sans graphics and speech input, obviously). Eliza got the same hype then as Milo does now. "The end of psychoanalysis" made the rounds in newspapers. It really shocked Stanley Weizenbaum to see how gullible people were at that time, to fall for such clever but cheap tricks. When I was watching that video from E3 of that japanese girl who frantically tried to sync her arms and legs with what she saw on screen, I immediately remembered "Eliza". It is somewhat frustrating to see that nowadays (when one should have a better understanding of what can be done with a software - and what a computer actually is), people still fall for the same pranks.

Now it seems I have just called Natal/Milo a prank. Of course it isn't. But to deliver the millions of Natals MS more or less promised (at a price of << $100 as many suggested here), MS will be down several billions of $ in research and hardware costs eventually.

This is an old thread btw.

And that Red Steel thing is :O

It doesn't look like that at all!

any artificial intellegence course student would have told u this ina blink lol.

they still got to get their speech recognition to work on windows people.

That was my point. Milo has some high chances of turning into another red steel.

You do know Singstar has voice recognition?

You don't need Natal for vocal recognition, even complex sentence recognition. All you need is a good micriophone and the right software.

You need Natal for face / facial expression recognition and motion sensing along with voice recognition. So emotion can be easily associated with what you say.

Milo is a first day buy for me.

I knew Milo wasn't some uber-AI Skynet thing to begin with. What it can do seems more impressive since I thought it was much less. I can't wait for some RPG company to take this tech and fill your party or NPCs with this type of stuff.

Remember guys, stay in school.

Oh yeah.....and don't necrobump threads.

I smell a necrobump