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Did they change the title of the article on Gamasutra, or is this your editorializing of the link?

Right you are!  Changed from "Xbox Live Vision: Wii Killer?" to "An Update on Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera Technology".  

I dont think a glorified webcam will ever beat how the Wii is going to function.  The fact is the Wii uses similar methods but is light-gun accurate at tracking the remote because its a "defined" beam whereas tracking a person they could be wearing any colour, in any lighting condition, etc.  Its pretty much guaranteed it will beat the EyeToy on accuracy though and that face mapping is AMAZING, I have never seen it done that accurate before.

As one of many people who plans to (eventually) own both the Wii and the Xbox Live Vision it should be interesting to see how they compare.  Im pretty much in the "if the 360 can do it, I want it" phase at the moment. ;-)

Slow news day for XNA today, all the Microsoft blogs are pretty quiet. Gamerscore a link to a video posted...

Hey Alex, I think you are missing the big picture. Your face can finally be in a game. This is awesome, the possibilities are endless if you think about it. I don't know about wii killer but it sure is something to get excited about.

K Rock

I think it's a bit of a shame that the face tracking technology will have to be licensed seperately.  I think that would add a lot to in game Communication HUDs (think Wing Commander style chat pop-ups), but I don't see a lot of development studios going out of their way to license it.

if anything this post makes me even more scared of Live Vision.
Does anyone really want to see faces like this running around in games?
Or the guy you are playing with in Uno?

It does have some semi-cool possibilites, but if MS cannot keep a regular stream of uses + new software this functions with then this device it will die like nintendo's e-reader and countless other gimmicky devices for consoles.

at least this is a better idea than "consumables." MS is doing lots of things right, but needs to keep in mind that gamers will look at the value in games--as in how much money they will have to spend on them. The further they are squeezed the less games they will want to buy. I am afraid the era of getting new content for free is gone, as is alot of the draw of downloadable content for games.
I refuse to pay $15 dollars to get a few new maps for Ghost Recon. if this map pack had been less money I would have still been playing that game now, rather than have traded it in to get other new games.