Project Natal on the Air

Microsoft has announced to the visitors of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Project Natal will go on sale in November 2010 it will work on all existing Xbox 360 consoles.

Project Natal was first announced at the E3 video games conference in June last year. It is the system allows users to play games controlled by body movements and speech rather than a handheld device.

Natal’s body gesturing system relies on cameras, sensors, microphones and software to understand voice commands and capture the motions of a player as they jump, kick or wave.

Mr Bach, President of Entertainment and Devices at Microsoft, said that – “With Project Natal we are allowing you to have the experience you want with technology that’s natural for you,” but they did not say how much Natal would cost or which countries it would launch in.

Links :

• E3 2009 Announcement
• Project natal Homepage