KOMBO: The Possibilities of Natal

For some reason, whenever anyone mentions things like Wii and Natal, the first images that jump out are people jumping around like goons in their living room. Why is this? Oh, that's right: every demo ever. However, I think the real implementation has potential for far more subtlety.

While trying to throw together a list of ideas about the potential that Microsoft's Natal, one that came up was the idea of using the camera to augment — not replace — the modern FPS. No one's going to crawl around on the floor pretending to fire an invisible gun (five-year-olds don't count), and until we get 360 Degree Television or those sweet virtual reality helmets from the virtual reality machines in the '90s, using your head to look around in a virtual environment isn't going to work very well, either.

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