Xbox live camera
Announced at E3 last May, the Xbox Live Camera for Xbox 360 lets you video chat and message with your friends and gives you a true interactive experience. As an integrated part of Xbox 360’s Xbox Live experience you can connect and communicate with friends while playing, listening to music or watching movies. When you play motion-detection-enabled games online the Xbox live camera inserts you into the game and helps you control the characters.
For the first time, you'll be able to see the people that you play with day in and day out. It may be quite a shock to the system when you discover that, the school mates that you thought you had, are actually big hairy men with beards!
The first games to utilise the camera will be Uno on Xbox live arcade, and the World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions, where it will take around 3 minutes to map the user's face onto one of the on-screen characters.
The camera is due for release on September 19th. Gameseek.co.uk have the pre-order price set at £39.97 - ouch!
