Proof that Project Natal won't work as advertised?

So I was reading through an article about the Xbox 360 "controller-less controller" on EuroGamer and noticed something alarming. Let's see if you can figure it out.

The project director, Alex Kipman, told us while demoing how his shiny new technology can be used to play good old Burnout Paradise.

See it? It's subtle, but if you look hard enough, you'll notice it.

That's right. It says "Alex Kipman."

Now, who is this guy, you ask? He was an engineer on the Windows Ultimate Extras team. You know, the guys who brought us ... well. Almost nothing, actually. Microsoft only made some of the few Ultimate Extras that ever did ship in-house. But you know, they did demo a cool wallpaper once. (The link 404s. Which sort of proves my point.) So what I remember Alex for were the promises. Great things were coming out of the Ultimate team. Great things.

You know, kind of like with Project Natal.

Alex's old Windows Ultimate profile can be found here.

Discuss this Article 58

Lindy
on Jun 8, 2009
Sine Mike broke the Apple conversaion already.... What MS should do with 7 for Vista users. I would say this is a "Big Announcement" you see Paul:) 10:47 am Family Pack available for $49. Will be released in September. A near-final developer preview available today. 10:46 am Snow Leopard will be available for all Intel Macs -- past and present. How should it be priced? Leopard was $129 and they want all Leopard users to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard will be $29 for those users.
Dipsh t Admin
on Jun 8, 2009
Um, Lindy, Surface is available today, but it is not catered towards the consumer or even IT market. And Lindy, aren't you being just as much of a troll as Mike today? BTW, while I typically hate defending Mike, he didn't mention Apple until HIS third post in this thread, and Dude egged him on.
shark47
on Jun 8, 2009
@Dip, Lindy is just using mike as an excuse to post such messages.
Waethorn
on Jun 8, 2009
"Glossy polycarbonate phones are cool. Glossy polycarbonate phones have always been cool." Until they replace them with unibody aluminum phones....
Lindy
on Jun 8, 2009
@Dipsh I dont care how many posts it took, why do it at all?
whiplash55
on Jun 8, 2009
Even if it works I have to wonder "what's fun about that" I like something in my hand preferable something with a trigger so I can kill things with it. Isn't that the point of video games?
robertsjoe
on Jun 8, 2009
Another bit of Microsoft vapourware. Like the dumb big ass coffee table that was announced early. Took years to appear. And then was just as big and dumb, and didn't work, as first thought.
shark47
on Jun 8, 2009
"Even if it works I have to wonder "what's fun about that" I like something in my hand preferable something with a trigger so I can kill things with it. Isn't that the point of video games?" http://i.gizmodo.com/5280496/project-natal-won-e3-and-maybe-the-motion-c... Like Gizmodo said, this doesn't mean you can't use a controller. It's up to

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