Microsoft Seeks to 'Kinect' with its Audience

Microsoft today unveiled Kinect for Xbox 360 (previously known as "Project Natal"), which aims to make video game controllers obsolete. Using full-body motion capture, voice recognition and facial recognition, Kinect recognizes each player's movements and voice, which controls his or her movements on the screen.

Users also will log into their Xbox LIVE accounts through facial recognition and control the system's interface by simply waving a hand. It will be interesting to see how accurate the facial rec is--and whether Kinect will help Xbox overtake the Wii as the active man's video game system.