Capcom’s Natal Title: Will Appeal to Core, Won’t be Launch [Project Natal]
Capcom’s first sortie with Project Natal will be “a brand focus … perhaps a brand we haven’t seen in a while,” according to senior exec Christian Svensson, who was expectedly coy when pressed for specifics.
Speaking to G4 at the Consumer Electronics Show, Svensson, the vice president in charge of strategic planning, expanded on what’s already [...]
Bill Gates: Project Natal Tech Isn’t Just For Gaming [Microsoft]
In a recent interview with CNET, Bill Gates let spill the true scope of Microsoft’s ambitions for the technology behind the Xbox’s Project Natal. Basically, it isn’t just a gaming gimmick—they want to try it everywhere.
Here’s how everyone’s still-favorite Microsoft figurehead (sorry Ballmer!) sees camera-based motion tech playing out:
[The concept also works] for media consumption [...]
From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)
I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]
Olympus Stop Motion E-P1 Ad Is a Great Idea (Also, Someone Else’s) [Advertising]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The Olympus Pen E-P1 is a beautiful Micro Four Thirds tribute the famous Pen half-frame SLR of the 1960s, so it’s only suitable that the most distinctive part of their advertising campaign is, well, inspired by a previous work.
Above, you see [...]
