Whilst I think that the video is scripted
Milo and Natal are two completely different things - Natal (Kinect) is the motion function control and Milo was Microsoft's Demo that Molyneux helped created.
Kinect does recognise faces, facial expressions and pictures but I would guess with no-where the alacrity of Milo in the video.
Thing to note as well is that most developers have only had the Kinect Kit for just under a year whereas Molyneux will have had access to it from day one with Microsoft.
(, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 7:36, Reply)
Isn't Kinect due for release some time this or next year?
I might give it 12-18 months on the market, let them work out the kinks - THEN I'll try it. I refuse to believe that it's as intuitive and as brilliant as all the hype.
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Bats, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 7:59,
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Milo was a demo
in the same sense that you could say James Cameron's Avatar was a "demo"... or any of the pre rendered game trailers you see online are "demo's".
MS have already announced that Milo was never intended to be made into a game... which makes you think - they created this impressive looking system that appears to emotively connect with the player; can follow, interpret, understand and react to physical cues, spoken words and phrases? But naah, lets put out a game where you control a fuckin raft by waving your arms about like a jummy!
I'd wager that you could've repeatedly shouted "FUCK YOU" whilst waving a flaming axe at the screen and Milo would've acted exactly the same as in the "demo".
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 9:38,
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Good point is good.
It's a shame though, give it another ten years and we can all abuse little boys.
(, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Molyneux is currently trying to develop
Milo & Kate into a game. Microsoft canned it because they thought they couldn't make it into a workable, popular game.
I don't refute that the video we saw was a predone demo, but I reckon there might be a little bit of truth.
Just for the record, I'm an avid 360 gamer who has absolutely no intention of buying Kinect.
(, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 11:13, Reply)