king talk

After we reported about Microsofts new Xbox project called NATAL, we have to tell about about this new concept for that console. It´s called Milo, a little 3D avatar boy which could be your new friend. You can share your problems with him, go outside in his world, play around and have fun with Milo. The real world is connected to the virtual one via 3D gesture recognition. You even can draw something, share it with Milo and talk about it… Maybe you can use another outstanding project from Microsoft called Songsmith to sing together with Milo. Everything is possible with this extraordinary masterpiece of absurdity.

Come on Microsoft… What´s wrong with you? It looks like you want to create a tool for all the little Bill Gates nerds which are unable to feel real emotions while they are having a real talk to real people making real fun in this really extra evil world. Well done!

via SimpleAndOpen

As we saw the brand new video from Microsoft X-Box follow-up project called Natal, which is featuring a brend new gesture based interface, we thought about the mail from 3dv-systems (10th of April 2009)…

We were asking for the possibility to get a ZCam, which is able to track motion in 3d space, for tinkering purposes and they gave us the following answer:

»3DV Systems Ltd can today confirm it has entered a “definitive agreement” for its assets to be acquired by a third party. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2009 and there is no assurance that this transaction will be completed. No further details will be confirmed at this time. Under these circumstances, we are unable to provide you with additional cameras or engage in business discussions.«

It seems to us that this third party could be M$…