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WILL FUTURE GAMERS DRESS UP TO PLAY PROJECT NATAL?
Microsoft’s bold leap into motion-controlled gaming through the image-capturing Project Natal technology suggests a potential future in which we may all dress up to play video games. Project Natal will have the capacity to not only translate a user’s motions into game-controlling actions, but also to capture the user’s image and display it within the game’s graphic environment. The result could be games in which you view yourself moving around within the game world. In such a game, you would become the star, the game’s protagonist, and that will bring with it a whole new set of game playing considerations. Imagine seeing yourself in a future Final Fantasy title charging into battle on a Chocobo’s back or sprinting toward the end zone in Madden; if you’re wearing whatever you currently wear to play games–jeans, PJs, underwear (I don’t judge)– you might look pretty silly in the context of the game. It won’t take long for gamers to catch on that they’ll have to look the part to really get into the game, and that will open up an entirely new era of interactivity. Read the rest of this entry »
