TIME has recognized Microsoft's Project Natal (Xbox 360 motion camera) as one of the magazine’s best Inventions of the Year 2009. Project Natal has also recently received both the Popular Mechanics 2009 Breakthrough Award and the Popular Science Best of What's New Grand Award. We want to send a massive congratulations out to the whole development team over at Microsoft, nice job. A quote from the TIME article is below as well as a link to the full list:
"Since time immemorial — or at least since Pong — one barrier that has stood between gamers and total Tron-like immersion in their video games has been the controller: the joystick, trackball, mouse, light gun or whatever. This year Microsoft demonstrated a technology, code-named Project Natal, that enables players to control games using only body movements and voice commands, no controller required — the gamer's body becomes the controller."
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