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At last, more details of the Camera accessory for the 360.
Touted to be an answer to Sony's Eyetoy and more, allowing you to put your picture on to game characters and instant use over Xbox Live, including some in-game video, the Xbox Live Vision camera should be on everyone's accessory list.
There will be 2 versions of the camera available on 6th October. First is the standard kit for £34.00. This includes the camera, a one-month Xbox Live Membership, an Xbox 360 Headset and two free full-version downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games (but not, I understand, of your own choosing).
The Premium Gold Pack at £54.99 gives you the camera, a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Membership, 200 Microsoft points, and download tokens for two full-version Xbox Live Arcade games – the 80s arcade classic Robotron, the timeless UNO card game.
In addition to this, Microsoft have also announced a new official wireless headset with improved voice communication over live, a wireless adaptor for using your Xbox360 accessories on a PC and a wireless Steering wheel which comes with a new special version of PGR3.
There are also some new faceplates for Forza Motorsport 2, Viva Pinata and, at last, the Halo among others. I'll take that Viva Pinata one!
Touted to be an answer to Sony's Eyetoy and more, allowing you to put your picture on to game characters and instant use over Xbox Live, including some in-game video, the Xbox Live Vision camera should be on everyone's accessory list.
There will be 2 versions of the camera available on 6th October. First is the standard kit for £34.00. This includes the camera, a one-month Xbox Live Membership, an Xbox 360 Headset and two free full-version downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games (but not, I understand, of your own choosing).
The Premium Gold Pack at £54.99 gives you the camera, a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Membership, 200 Microsoft points, and download tokens for two full-version Xbox Live Arcade games – the 80s arcade classic Robotron, the timeless UNO card game.
In addition to this, Microsoft have also announced a new official wireless headset with improved voice communication over live, a wireless adaptor for using your Xbox360 accessories on a PC and a wireless Steering wheel which comes with a new special version of PGR3.
There are also some new faceplates for Forza Motorsport 2, Viva Pinata and, at last, the Halo among others. I'll take that Viva Pinata one!
I think it will probably get used in quite a few games. At least, Microsoft is pushing for it. The Eyetoy, while fun, only had the special games written for it and several further packs of mini games that did nothing much more than last a few minutes.
The idea with making accessories work is to make them useful in general gaming. So having an option to put your face in lots of games and being able to see other people in a mini-window while you are playing, plus using it as a videophone will be better than getting the camera bundled with some motion-sensing mini-games and then not being used for anything else (though at least Sony did release a video chat thing, but it seemed more of an afterthought).
The idea with making accessories work is to make them useful in general gaming. So having an option to put your face in lots of games and being able to see other people in a mini-window while you are playing, plus using it as a videophone will be better than getting the camera bundled with some motion-sensing mini-games and then not being used for anything else (though at least Sony did release a video chat thing, but it seemed more of an afterthought).
My EyeToy is just gathering dust. I can see the 360 camera doing exactly the same thing if I were to buy one.
The trick to accessories like this is to make them work with every game in the console's lineup, not just a handful like Sony did. Otherwise people will continue to send naked pictures of themselves using mobile phones as usual, which of course makes console cameras redundant.
The trick to accessories like this is to make them work with every game in the console's lineup, not just a handful like Sony did. Otherwise people will continue to send naked pictures of themselves using mobile phones as usual, which of course makes console cameras redundant.
At last, more details of the Camera accessory for the 360.
Touted to be an answer to Sony's Eyetoy and more, allowing you to put your picture on to game characters and instant use over Xbox Live, including some in-game video, the Xbox Live Vision camera should be on everyone's accessory list.
There will be 2 versions of the camera available on 6th October. First is the standard kit for £34.00. This includes the camera, a one-month Xbox Live Membership, an Xbox 360 Headset and two free full-version downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games (but not, I understand, of your own choosing).
The Premium Gold Pack at £54.99 gives you the camera, a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Membership, 200 Microsoft points, and download tokens for two full-version Xbox Live Arcade games – the 80s arcade classic Robotron, the timeless UNO card game.
In addition to this, Microsoft have also announced a new official wireless headset with improved voice communication over live, a wireless adaptor for using your Xbox360 accessories on a PC and a wireless Steering wheel which comes with a new special version of PGR3.
There are also some new faceplates for Forza Motorsport 2, Viva Pinata and, at last, the Halo among others. I'll take that Viva Pinata one!
Touted to be an answer to Sony's Eyetoy and more, allowing you to put your picture on to game characters and instant use over Xbox Live, including some in-game video, the Xbox Live Vision camera should be on everyone's accessory list.
There will be 2 versions of the camera available on 6th October. First is the standard kit for £34.00. This includes the camera, a one-month Xbox Live Membership, an Xbox 360 Headset and two free full-version downloads of Xbox Live Arcade games (but not, I understand, of your own choosing).
The Premium Gold Pack at £54.99 gives you the camera, a 12-month Xbox Live Gold Membership, 200 Microsoft points, and download tokens for two full-version Xbox Live Arcade games – the 80s arcade classic Robotron, the timeless UNO card game.
In addition to this, Microsoft have also announced a new official wireless headset with improved voice communication over live, a wireless adaptor for using your Xbox360 accessories on a PC and a wireless Steering wheel which comes with a new special version of PGR3.
There are also some new faceplates for Forza Motorsport 2, Viva Pinata and, at last, the Halo among others. I'll take that Viva Pinata one!