Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | 07:41 BST
First shots of Kinect under its new guise [Update]
Update: Gizmodo’s taken its own shots of Kinect from the event. Get them here.
Original: Natal is dead. Long live Kinect.
Engadget has the first shots of the motion camera under its new guise, as announced earlier in its Project Natal Experience event.
Get them at the link.
A release date, or price, wasn’t given by Microsoft during the event, but did say at the end that more details would come during its main press conference tonight.
Pat and Nathan will be there for us at the Wiltern Theater, while myself, Steph and Joe will be newsifying your asses from home in the UK and US. The magic begins from 10am PST/6pm BST.
11 comments
#1
Erthazus
14/06/10, 6:17 am
Looks like from that sci-fi video from previous E3.
But for 189$? 1.8.9.$ ? To play Kinetic Sports, Kinecticans, jumping around or whatever? Wow…
#2
frostquake
14/06/10, 6:36 am
Don’t know if anyone has said this yet, BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR DOING THIS FOR ALL OF US!!!
#3
frostquake
14/06/10, 6:39 am
Oh still just one Camera though right..not 2 different flavors that would be a terrible idea!
#4
theevilaires
14/06/10, 6:57 am
HAHAHA Kinect OMG what a stupid name…..the xbox kinect cam haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! and I thought MOVE sucked wow
#5
Malmer
14/06/10, 6:59 am
Looks nice. Will fit under the TV in most homes. Will look nice on our white high-gloss TV-bench.
However, these are official pictures, and when you put this next to the rumoured 360 slim outed by that italian ad they share nothing in terms of design aestetics. Will Microsoft really make such a blunder and not coordinate the designs, or is it just that the one picture from the ad isn’t really representive of how it looks? Or is it simply a fake (the ad, that is)?
#6
Joe Anderson
14/06/10, 7:11 am
@5 I think the slim has Kinetic built in, does it not?
#7
AHA-Lambda
14/06/10, 7:22 am
Does it? Or are you inadvertently leaking info there?
#8
Mattigan
14/06/10, 7:45 am
How the fuck is that supposed to work with the centre channel of a Home Cinema setup, I assumed that you would be able to mount it above the TV like the Wii sensor bar. It doesn’t look like that’s going to be possible with the whacking great big base on the Kinect, so I will be forced to resort to putting it on the same shelf as my centre speaker, which will 1) Look shite and 2) in all probability fuck the voice recognition royally.
Was going to get this, not so sure now.
#9
Gekidami
14/06/10, 7:48 am
Indeed, i’d have the same problem. Except i would have to balance it on top of my central speaker… And it has a slopped top. :S
#10
onlineatron
14/06/10, 11:16 am
The redesign lends credence to the slim 360 information. The edges on Kinect looks far sharper now which correspond with the re-worked form factor.
#11
Quiiick
14/06/10, 11:33 am
@ It’s even worse if your home cinema has a projector/beamer setup. Any beamer is placed behind the viewer/player, and so are are all the consoles which are connected to the beamer.
So how are you supposed use “Kinect” with this kind of setup ???