Xbox 360 - Natal (revealed at E3 2009)

The electronic entertainment expo is one of the biggest gaming events of the year when the developers and designers of games and consoles come to show off their latest up and coming work, heres the biggest announcement of the show from Microsoft;

XBOX 360s NATAL
Microsofts new 'natal' is a motion tracking controller, but unlike the Wii it uses your whole body as the controller - it tracks your head, feet, legs, arms, wrists etc. So if you were to play a guitar game your would literally just play as if you were to play an air guitar! Same goes for driving, hands out in front of you to steer, foot forward to accelerate, foot back to brake. It also has:

* Facial recognition software signs you in automatically
* Menus can be scrolled with a hand-swipe
* Films can be started via voice activation




Milo
On the natal they have also created something called 'Milo', an AI character you can interact with. Once your voice is recognised with Milo he can then pick your voice out from a crowd and call for you on a first name basis! (did this constantly during the expo apparently! Freaky!);

* Milo can talk, interact and display emotions like nervousness, caution and he can even lie!
* Players can interact with Milo's world; like touching the TV screen to create ripples on a pond.
* In the Milo video, the woman talking to Milo drew something on a piece of paper, held it above the TV, and Milo reached up and pulled down a virtual piece of paper – which had her drawing on it!

Apprently early predictions are $250