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Free game coming with 360 camera
Gamasutra has received confirmation that the Xbox Live Vision camera for the 360 will come with a free game: TotemBall.TotemBall is controlled almost entirely through gestures; that is, the game tracks a player's arm movements to control a rickety, wheeled totem pole tower around each level, collecting items and trying to reach the exit within a time limit. Microsoft's Jeff Stone also tells the site that "more gestural games are in early development." Coming out on Sept. 19, GameStop has unofficially listed the camera's price at $39.99. With that price point and the integration of the camera into a myriad of games currently out and on the horizon -- such as World Series of Poker -- this seems like Microsoft's must-have peripheral for the 360.
Xbox 360 camera plus poker equals immersion
After the Microsoft keynote we managed to spend some time with one of the games supporting the 360's camera peripheral, World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions. In this game, the camera is used to take a frontal and sideways shot of the player's head, which is then turned into a 3D representation of the player.The process takes about three minutes, and is a little rough around the edges, but the immersiveness from seeing your opponents' faces both in 3D and in a superimposed webcam display is undeniable. The PMS Clan ladies demonstrating the game were impressed, describing it as a way to increase the addictiveness and realism of online poker, and wondering when they'd see their own faces in their favourite FPS. However, we find the concept of seeing our own dead bodies disturbing enough without adding our faces to it.
360 camera specs includes gesture recognition
Xbox360Galaxy.com got their hands on an Xbox 360 Camera flier intended for developer's from last month's Game Developer's Conference. Aside: Hey! I was there, I didn't see any fliers ... they must have been hidden. Yeah, hidden, that's the ticket.In addition to technical camera details (it has a 43° Field of View ... w00t?) the flier mentions the camera contains "features such as high quality video chat and video recording, high resolution image capture, gesture recognition, and more." We imagine gameplay along the lines of Sony's EyeToy games: arms waving, bodies jumping, hands swatting. Good times.Continue reading for my transcription of the flier.See also:Snapped! Xbox 360 camera caught on camera[Via digg]
