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Since Microsoft first announced Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this summer, the video gaming industry has been abuzz with this potentially revolutionary new gaming system that has the promise of not only transforming the video game experience but bringing video games to a much wider audience.

Project Natal promises to radically alter the way gamers experience playing video games.  The gaming system does not require controllers for playing the game.  Instead, the players will use their body movements and voice to control the game, thus blurring the lines between video and real life for these Project Natal games.  With Project Natal the players actually become an integral part of the game itself in ways that were not possible before

All of this is made possible by Project Natal’s sophisticated 3D camera and voice recognition system.  Depth sensors enable the system to track body movements and individual voices in 3D.  The camera can recognize facial expressions and individual faces and the microphone can pick up different voices inside of the room.  The sophisticated technology enables players to truly experience the game in realistic, 3D conditions without having to use controllers.

Project Natal is being designed as an added-on to Microsoft’s already hugely popular Xbox 360 game console.  In many ways the controller-less system is a response to the Nintendo Wii, which has helped bring video gaming technology to the masses, whereas the Xbox 360 requires more skill and is more for the serious gamer.  By developing a gaming system without controllers, Project Natal promises to be more user friendly and something that will appeal more to the mass market and not just hard core gamers.

There has been no official announcement yet as to when Project Natal will be released, although many experts are looking to the end of 2010.  Time will tell if Project Natal really does revolutionize the video gaming experience as we know it.

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