My father-in-law received a new X-Box 360 Connect for Christmas and I have been watching the kids play it all week. Of course it is a lot of fun, but it is also pretty amazing and freaky at the same time. The device is a small camera that sits under the TV and is pointed back at the player. It reads the players position and allows you to control the character in the video game simply by moving your body. One programmable function recognizes the players body height and shape as soon as you walk in front of the TV. So when Abbey starts a game it knows that she is playing instead of Katie. If they trade places the avatar representations of them also trade places. Creepy! In order to select game options the girls just hold their hands up in the air and sweep menu choices left and right to make selections. Remember Tom Cruise in Minority Report? It is in the living room.
The best part? The next morning both my daughters experienced muscle pain from playing so much. That has never happened with a video game before. This game may actually help with the childhood obesity epidemic. I think I have to run out and get one for our house.
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