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Xbox 360 Gets Vision Camera This Fall
GinoMGG writes "During Major Nelson's latest podcast an interviewee let slip the release date for the Xbox Vision camera. According to the Microsoft staffer American and European gamers should expect the Vision camera on September 19th. Coming this holiday season, Vision will be available on three games, including UNO and World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions." You can see the camera in action on a humorous Kotaku post from today.
"When we have the information highway, I'll put it out there. Everybody who wants to pay, I don't know, one cent, can see what movies I'm watching and what books I'm reading and certain other information. If I'm still interesting, I'll rack up dollars as people access that part of the highway." ~ Bill Gates - Source Playboy Magazine Interview, 1994
Looks like Bill is pulling another ol' switcheroo. He wants you to pay him so that he can watch you.
I think I'll wait on camera games until on-the-fly video enhancement technology catches up. Not that I need it, but there are plenty of people out there that need a little touching up...
Demented But Determined.
But... now you play strip poker over the net!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/03/14
Pictures of the twins!
Was waiting for a poker card game to come out for it. Add a camera and it sounds like LOADS of fun! Good thing there exists a powerful high performing next generation game platform to render those cards in unprecedented resolution. I might have to buy an HDTV too!
Honestly, maybe they might use all that extra wasted processing power to implement a bluff detector in the game based on biometric feedback from the camera.
Come on! I mean, a freakin card game is the biggest thing Xbox360 will offer for a camera accessory? Anybody else still not impressed by the Xbox360? I would expect this gimmick to come out for a Nintendo product. Of course, with the Revolution, I can deal the cards by throwing my wiimote around the room. Nitendo would love this as it would be an excuse for a customer to buy 52 extra wiimotes.
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I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Let's see: Nintendo copies Xbox Live Arcade, Sony copies Wiimote's motion sensitivity, and now Microsoft copies PS2's EyeToy, is there any innovation anymore?
Let's see: Nintendo copies Xbox Live Arcade, Sony copies Wiimote's motion sensitivity, and now Microsoft copies PS2's EyeToy, is there any innovation anymore? But what I think is: Sony copies Wiimote's motion sensitivity, Nintendo copies Xbox Live Arcade, and now Microsoft copies PS2's EyeToy, is there any innovation anymore?
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Um... yes? You just listed three recent examples: Microsoft's XBox Live Arcade, Nintendo's Wiimote, and Sony's EyeToy. Where's the problem?
How long until this is used by them to just make their in game avatars and on screen camera shots be nothing but penis? You just wait and see..
I hope so, at least for the online poker game. A penis would be far easier to read than a face when it comes to bluffing...
There is nothing quite like sitting across the table from your opponents, seeing and hearing their reactons.
Socializing is a big part of the casual gaming experience off-line, whether it is Bingo Night at the Catholic church or Monopoly played on the kitchen table.