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Project Natal, as you probably know by now, was Microsoft's big announcement at its E3 press briefing here. It has gotten a lot of attention because of its promise to make it possible to incorporate all kinds of hands-free control into a wide variety of games: Racing games, painting games, shooting games, sports games and so on.

All the gaming would be done without the need to use any controllers. The game console itself would detect your movement using a sensor and execute it in the game itself. This is Microsoft's challenge against Nintendos Wii.

Project Natal (see video below) is designed to be a one-to-one avatar control system, Tsunoda said. Wherever you move your hands, your body or your legs, the system captures it and mirrors it on the screen and in whatever game you're playing. "No (other) controller in the world allows you to control your whole body," he said. "Every part of the body is in play."