Lionhead's unveiled a new project at the Xbox pre-E3 press conference, one that uses the just announced 'Natal' motion tech to create a virtual person.
In the E3 demo Peter Molyneux showed virtual boy 'Milo' "talking" with a Lionhead employee. Together they went fishing, where the player was able to interact with the water, making splashes and even seeing her reflection in the water.
The most impressive scene has the play scanning a piece of paper with the Natal tech, and then 'passing' it to Milo through the screen.
Lionhead has chosen to use Natal to help you "meet what I believe to be a real person", said Molyneux.
Select E3 attendees will be able to talk to 'Milo' behind closed doors at E3.
Ok thats either well timed acting or something special but truely creepy is being developed here.... if it starts singing daisy daisy i'm taking a fire axe to the f**ker
Frogster8 Anyone else notice the MASSIVE hard drive on the xbox next to the milo video?
Thats a dev kit see here http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=GGudiGrLdi07062240
Milo does seem to ignore a lot of things, but his emotional reation is very accurate. This would be a great game for kids who don't socialise well. Definately looking closely at this one.
Looks very good but i dont think the final product will be close to that, they said that it wasnt acting or staged but then why was there paper and colouring pens at the ready as if she knew she would have to draw a pic. think about it people that was as staged as you can get.
Of course it was staged, it was a tech demo for a gaming expo- I wouldn't expect it any other way. You wouldn't try and sell your product to millions of consumers while it was bugging out or not working correctly.
As a proof of concept I think this is astounding, Lionhead have a LOT of work to do on AI to go where I think they're heading.
Seems quite good, but will be interesting to see how the finished product would be. What would happen if you asked him an obscure question like 'Who do you think will win the next General Election?'; he wouldn't have the voice recording to respond with, and would probably just end up saying 'I don't know'.
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