WSJ 'Confirms' Xbox 360 Full Body Motion Sensing Controls Posted by XanTium | May 12 17:44 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From wsj.com: [QUOTE] Microsoft Corp. is developing a new videocamera for its Xbox 360 videogame console that will allow players to control games with the movement of their bodies, according to people familiar with the matter. Unlike the Wii, the Microsoft camera won't require users to hold any hardware in their hands to control in-game action, people familiar with the matter say. The device could be shown as early as the E3 game industry conference in Los Angeles in early June, though it likely will not be released until next year, these people say. [/QUOTE] Full Story: wsj.com

this will be interesting to see how well this hardware is accepted by consumers.

i also wonder what game types this will work well for...

Next year? Hope it will be compatible with the Xbox 720, or else we will see some pretty pissed off customers. Seems pretty cool though, DDR for 360 anyone?

Hopefully it'll be a lot better than the current Live vision cam and motion sensing games like Totemball. I have my doubts this new hardware will be any good or very popular. For me the less physical effort needed to play a video game the better .
Even if the next Xbox was released next year (which is very unlikely), what would stop anyone continuing to play it on the console they originally bought it for? .

oh no, not Totemball - that game still gives me nightmares - if a time machine is ever built, someone should go back & stop that game from ever being made.

i doubt the XBOX 720 will be released next year (2010) - i would say it will be announced at E3 2010 & probably released mid 2011/early 2012.

i would probably stop playing on the XBOX 360 as soon as the next console is released - mainly coz at that point i'd just find the X360 far too dated - but thats just me.

far to dated, lmao i still play nintendo...

nope i bet 720 wont be out till at least 2013 but who knows anyway hopefully we can see some good in this new hardware

I can't wait you no longer need a TV, or even electricity to play. You just close your eyes and your brain does the rest. Games still cost $60 a pop, though, but all you get is an empty case and some cover art, maybe a paragraph of plot to get your brain started.

At the worst, this new hardware comes out, becomes a flop, MS learns from their mistakes and perfects it for the next xbox.

I doubt I will ever use it, but at the same time I am excited to see what types of games they will bring out with it.

wow congrats M$ first you copy what the home brewers did with the Xbox 1 and adapted it to the 360 now you invented a motion response camera to combat the Wii. To bad Sony didn't think of that first , oh wait they did about 5 years ago called an eye-toy....anyone else smell a lawsuit forming

Full body motion cool cool... i guess. Off topic statement: I would have thought there would have been a topic on crimson echoes getting a C&D from SE. Check it out at crimsonechoes.com, master. (HK reference)

People wanted media center capability, so Microsoft added it. What's wrong with that? They are trying new things with this camera. That's not a bad thing.

When i read about this MS tech im reminded of the movie The Island, particularly the scene sponsored by xbox when they are playing the fighting game, the motion sensing fighting game.
Cant wait to virtually kick some ones ass.

Hopefully this isn't like the Sega Activator.

The possibilities seem somewhat limited on what games this would work for, at least until we get holograms (imagine Moral Kombat like that). It'd be like the bubble game for the iToy or Totemball. Fun games to play in the store (for about 5 minutes) but I wouldn't take them home with me.

Isn't this what the Live Vision camera is supposed to do? And the Eye Toy before it? Are we going to have to put a white sheet over all of our furniture and stand directly in front of the camera? It seems like they're trying to go after the Wii, but going about it all wrong. It would make for a fun party with some simple games, but as far as actual gaming is concerned, this sounds completely retarded.

This is exactly what the live vision was supposed to do. It's obvious they had to improve software to make the Visions motion sensing controls work better. But the hardware only needs to be a simple camera. Why we are forced to purchase a new camera, is beyond me.

yes and i remember i believe it was on here about 3 years or so about how Bill was presented with a modded xbox 1 and told his staff "this is what the next xbox needs to be" sure mad props to them for adding capability in the 360 but that's what they did with the Xbox 1 with the Xbox Media Extender. It wasn't until most recently and still having to be connected to XBL to watch AVI files while WMV offline has no problems. It may be "Windows Format" but still not even supporting a divx format due to according to them it's the most pirated format (funny all my downloads are AVI) is just stupid.

Divx is a codec, AVI is a container, its most likely that your AVI files were encoded with divx.

Unless you're a lawyer and actually know something about law drop this pointless rhetoric about lawsuits because it only makes you look like a complete idiot.

The technology and idea of camera motion response has been around for years, it's not original to Sony or Nintendo. There is nothing wrong or illegal with different companies having similiar ideas or products. Numerous companies make Cars, numerous companies make TV's, numerous companies make Toasters; do they all sue each other for having similiar products? NO.
Microsoft jumping into the motion camera arena is just business. So what if the original idea wasn't their's. In matters of business, he who does it better and/or cheaper is all that consumers really care about not who did it first.

Well said, i get sick of reading.. "microsoft copied sony, sony copied nintendo, " its utter crap. Do we see post after post about samsung, onkyo, panny, and sharp copying sonys Blu-Ray players??? of course not so whats the difference?