Via the Microsoft Gamefest Expo which is currently underway in Seattle, news site Gamasutra were given some new launch details for the Xbox Live Vision camera on the Xbox 360.
The camera is set to be released with a free Xbox 360 exclusive game included, TotemBall, which is being developed by K-based Strange Flavour and Freeverse.
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. Gesture-based gameplay is not foreign to Freeverse, who previously developed ToySight for the Macintosh, compatible with Apple's iSight camera.
The title shows that Microsoft is willing to compete with the gesture-based gameplay control concepts also utilized by Sony's EyeToy for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. Though no further gestural-controlled game concepts using the Xbox Live Vision camera have yet been officially announced, more gestural games are in early development, according to [Microsoft's Jeff Stone].
Gamasutra also noted that the camera will be compatible with selected Xbox Live Arcade games such as Uno and also Activision's World Series of Poker.
Microsoft are yet to release an official price point or street date for the Xbox Live Vision camera, but we will have more information as it is released.
Via: Gamasutra
