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  • The Inside Story of Microsoft’s ‘Project Natal’
    By on October 7, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Lanxon writes “Wired has published a lengthy behind-the-scenes feature documenting the inception, development and technological struggles of Microsoft’s Project Natal, now known as Kinect. The feature is the result of conversations the magazine had with a number of key developers and researchers behind the project, and unprecedented access to Microsoft Research in a number of countries, over the course of three years.”

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  • Reasons to be Excited For Project Natal
    By on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    The details we have so far are not final, since Natal is still being produced and finalized, but from what we know, we do have some reasons for some hope.

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  • Iwata Refused Natal Technology in the Past
    By on February 3, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    It seems Nintendo’s boss Satoru Iwata didn’t have faith in Natal

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  • LEAK: Half-Life 2 Playing on Project Natal
    By on January 2, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Here’s a clip of the Microsoft’s upcoming motion system handling Half Life 2—the first time anyone’s seen Natal playing an FPS.

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  • TIME: Microsoft’s Natal better innovation than AIDS vaccine
    By on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Microsoft’s Project Natal better invention than the AIDS vaccine and teleportation, apparently.

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  • Microsoft discusses Wii-esque Project Natal branding
    By on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    While we may be nervous about Microsoft’s Project Natal branding strategy — remember, that’s just a codename — the suits in Redmond share no such concern. That’s because the Natal project is following Nintendo’s lead in more ways than just easy-to-play, motion-based technology. It’s also following Nintendo’s branding strategy.

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