Natal spotted at D8 conference

Not bad looking. Can’t wait to see it in black.

I bet they wish they didn’t make the sides of the 360 concave now.

*squint*

What does that say on the front of it?

“No manual tilt” I think. It was reported featuring a “motorized tilt mechanism”.

Yeah it says No Manual Tilt. You can see it better in this piccie; http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/natald811.jpg

Did Engadget pay someone who’d stolen the Natal unit to let them photograph it?

Big, isnt it. Really not sure where i could put a thing like that, wouldnt quite work balancing it on top of my TV.

Its fking huge, almost the length of the 360 itself. Man alive.

Pat: It says “If you can read this, NATAL won’t work.”

@1 stop being a fanboy. That thing is too big and ugly. Look at the base for crying out loud. What are we in the 70′s?

This isn’t the final product. It can’t be.

@8 Gotta love the large-ish power adapter for it round the back too!

It’s a little bit ugly.

I liked the one from the sci-fi trailer.

@10: Please be quiet.

@4,5 – So it does. Ta.

@ theevilaires

Please fuck off. Seriously.

Looking at it, it’s almost as high as the machine itself. In fact, it is about the same height.

This is ugly.. but i wish it works well *.*

And what is written on it ? can sb read it ?

no wonder they weren’t building it in lol

*grits teeth*

I agree with TEA….

It is ugly, looks like a massive white square churro :/

There’s almost no design flare to it, it’s just an white rectangular block and the base looks far too cumbersome.

@8 It really isn’t that big if you look at the other pictures it only like an inch(maybe an inch and a half)wide. It might be kinda long but lets think about all the stuff inside of it.. Two cameras which have facial recognition and 3d mapping, voice recognition, motorized mount and I believe it’s own onboard chip which means it won’t pull too much power from the cpu. So I think in hindsight its looks just fine for what it does.

Doesn’t look like a sub-£50 piece of kit to me…

@20 They took away that chip for cost reduce.

You saw Playstation Eye camera? It’s small and already have voice recognition, face recognition and gesture recognition. One thing that it lacks is a skeletal mapping (you call it 3D mapping or whatever).

and Natal is huge for no reason. By the way, one is a simple camera and other is an infrared camera or sensor that recognize gesures by warm + simple microphone.

For that it’s too huge.

http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/106582_sony-motion.jpg

It’s even smaller then Playstation Move.

HA! even Garratt is on my side…you lose again Mike

icechip91 said: So I think in hindsight its looks just fine for what it does.

yea in hindsight it does exactly what it does….look like shit. If they don’t fix the look then count me out. My equipment has to look cool while I play my games ….which is why I would never play my 360 laying down on its side either.

Oh how we fall in such a short time M$. You had the ball in 2006. Now you’re dropping it like its hot more times than a bunch of skanks in a rap video.

Off topic but Mike dude are you staff?

He used to post news and stuff, but now he’s sort of just a mod. He’s actually still on the staff page.

Ahh i see lol

In fairness, the 360 itself looks like a POS, but that didn’t stop me from buying one.

I’ll always be on the staff page. Even when I’m not any more.

I like the concave styling of the 360… It’s not much but it’s enough to add a touch of minimalist pizazz.

Natal on the other hand looks plain, blocky and unexciting. The original black design was far more appealing.

good

MS can’t make hardware.