http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOVj_I5npA

Uhhh... how is this video debunking it, exactly?

God that's pretty desperate.

Oh I'm not trying to bash it really, I just thought it was an interesting comparison.

Meh, we have a winner here.

Everything has already been done before. Wii motion control? Go to any Wal Mart toy department and you'll find TV fishing games that did that 5 years ago.

I personally like the article on IGN where they looked at project Natal, and saw how all the features it offered could be used in actual games. Some of the examples were turning your head to see behind you in a racing game, using facial recognition in games like mass effect to alter dialog option depending on your mood, and having your group thats onstage in rockband perfectly mimic the actions of those playing. The articles called "Post-E3 2009: The Benefits of Natal". I didn't want to post a link incase Giant Bomb frowns on that sort of thing.

Yeah it is really capable of so much. It bothers me a lot when people compare it to the eye toy. This is far past that.

Of course it's debunked.  It common knowledge that the demo at e3 was controlled by engineers back stage.  Look up on kotaku for a recent interview with one of the lead designers, he says computers aren't even capable of doing that level of detection yet.  So he is excited by the challenge of making it work.  It's still an experiment that doesn't work yet.

pretty interesting, it's what people do,  they steal other people's ideas. they either make it better or it's just the same thing with a different name. they seem like the same thing.

Fact: Everything is an imitation of something except done better.

That's not a debunking. They showed that both Eye Toy and Natal have cameras in them. The thing in Eyedentify isn't facial recognition, at least, not any further than recognizing that a face came into the camera's view. Natal aims to recognize and remember individual faces (we'll see if it actually works.) The body-capture stuff that was presented in the Eyetoy concept videos was actually being done live with Natal (again, we'll see how well that works when Natal is actually available.) And the rest was Natal's own concept video. The message I got from this is that Natal is actually capable of some of the things that Eyetoy hoped to achieve on PS2. That's good that the next generation of camera controls is an improvement over the previous generation.