It’s simply all too good to be true. The new XBox presented at the E3 yesterday seems to have included two controversial technologies, Full body motion capture and Voice Recognition. We have always presumed these two technology to be crude, unfit for the general customers. And of course, I’m very skeptic with the level of accuracy the voice recognition is shown in the video. Oh wait, what about the customers who can’t speak English?!
However, as long as motion capture is involved, Nintendo has proven with Wii that it does not take a perfectly accurate algorithm in order to please the general customers. And who knows, maybe Microsoft did manage to extend that to a whole new level. Enough with the technical details, I’m sure we’ll see a whole lot more to come.

Update!
It seems motion capture on Natal is light-independent. In other words, people can be detected even in worst possible light condition.