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There was a talk at TEDGLobal 2010 about Milo, given by Peter Molyneux.

Molyneux ended the demonstration with the shocking truth that all the world's Milos are going to form a Borg-like hive mind, with the AI data "in the cloud" (as Wired puts it), continually learning from individual interactions

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/13/milo-meet-ted-molyneux-dem...

Very interesting...

Molyneux is insanely brilliant, but he tends to hype his games so much that the end result falls short of expectations. He's made similar claims about Fable - then known as Project Ego - that never materialized.

What an apt project name

There are at least 4 things in that video that give it away as 100% staged. Bonus points if you can spot them.

The boy's gaze is made to point up and to the right to make it look (from our angle) as if he's facing the actress playing the game, but given that this isn't a holographic star trek TV, she's seeing the same picture we are.. Which means they're not seeing eye to eye.

Yeah, highly suspicious. Molyneux has overpromised things before.

Here's a YouTube video that shows 3 of those points...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAK8ubYtZE

- Too quick reaction to the "that is if you have finished your school project part", to soon during the "that is..." part?

- The camera starts to zoom-in (in game) at the exact time to react to the future time of her finishing the drawing, although it would be very hard to predict the correct time of that happening?

Am I close?

Another one is her reflection on screen, during the fishing, moving before she does at one point.

I have been told by a member of staff that worked on this at Lionhead that it was completely faked.

Uh, the voice is not autogenerated (it sounds natural), and hence it's 100% certain that this was scripted?

Not to mention, it's from 2009

This is from 2009-- I guess the relevance again is the TED talk reported this week? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/13/peter-molyneu...

The Microsoft product for interacting with Milo is now called Kinect as of E3 2010: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect

Microsoft's Xbox PR chief Aaron Greenberg has said that Peter Molyneux's Kinect-controlled virtual boy Milo is a tech demo, and that Microsoft has no plans to release it as an Xbox 360 title.

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/microsoft-says-molyneux...

As nickelplate already mentioned, Molyneux is an awesome marketer. Almost all of his games fall short of the hype he builds, though all of his games are also semi-revolution and unique.

Even if this weren't faked, this sounds 100 times more boring than an asteroids game. Oooh, look, I put my hands in the water and the fishes go away!

Show me gameplay.

You overestimate humans. Milo is the ultimate tamagotchi.

:-) Very true. I'm personally quite addicted to Flying Shark, which was released in 1987, I think (and which I play with Radiohead's "Talk Show Host", Live at Pinkpop 2001 Landgraaf in a continuous loop). 3-D and interactivity is all well and good, but is it fun?

Was that scripted or did Microsoft finally get voice recognition working?

Natal has working voice recognition. It was shown at E3 this past year to control accessing media content. It looks pretty cool. Voice control is perfect for the living room.

Voice control is perfect for the living room.

I'd be wary of it being too easily triggerable, though.

"We want popcorn!"

"Searching for: Porn"

Hey, they said it was voice detection. They didn't say they mastered prediction.

Clearly, it must be even better than I thought. It hears what you're really thinking about, rather than what you're talking about.

1) understands emotion? Do i need british intonation?

2) why don't they put up a website where you can interact with the character?

In regards to #2, I can't imagine they have the desire or resources to offer something online freely to the public that requires the kind of resources this thing is bound to use.

Oh cool, an update to the old Seaman game for Dreamcast.

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