It appears the Xbox 360 is getting closer to having the same large volume of shovelware that the Wii has.
You think virtual rafting wasn’t enough, now you get to try obstacle courses like seen in summer camp, make your Xbox Live avatar dance, splash paint onto a canvas, and play little party games.
Currently I think that unless these are really beefed up and have much more fantastic and exotic locales then what you have when doing the real thing then these will just seem to be tech demos that you get bored of quickly and realize you just spent money on it.
Hopefully there will be better, funner, longer, and more interesting games that will come out for this in the near future, otherwise it will just be an expensive piece of hardware without a game library that will keep you entertained for months. Why would I want to try an obstacle course in a locale modeled to look like a summer camp instead of one that looks like a futuristic industrial park or exotic planet?
They probably will come out with better games, I heard once that Halo Reach may use it in their game, but it was rumor when I heard it and haven’t heard anything since, I think it could be really fun if they make the right kinds of games for it.
Microsoft just gave it a new name, now it’s called Kinect
Also, one of the first demos of someone actually using the technology to interact with a virtual character, in this case a tiger. http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6265495/
Is it just me or does the environment look like a real-time variation of the one in Big Buck Bunny (it’s clearly not exactly the same but still)?
I may have to check it, a BBB atmosphere in real-time, maybe it is too good to be true ? I suppose technology is fast outpacing some of ours imagination to say the least.