The virtual kid lives, but won’t hatch on Xboxes this year. The unreal Milo & Kate that lets Xbox users talk and gesture to a virtual boy is still planned for release, despite an earlier report to the contrary.
https://lastchance.cc/microsoft-project-milo-not-a-game-were-planning-to-br-5575034%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
“Project Milo absolutely continues in development at Lionhead Studios,” Microsoft director of project management Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku today. “It is just not a product we plan to bring to market this holiday. The team at Lionhead has always been a center of innovation and will continue to deliver against that charter.”
Milo & Kate was unveiled a year ago as a showpiece for Xbox Kinect, then known as Project Natal. Lionhead Studios founder Peter Molyneux heralded the program as a technological breakthrough, a quasi-game experience that could give the user the experience of talking to a real child, via the interface of the Kinect motion/voice/camera sensors and an Xbox 360. We tried it out back then. But it no-showed this year’s E3 earlier in June.
https://lastchance.cc/testing-molyneuxs-milo-a-virtual-boy-with-yes-a-dog-5275204%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
UPDATE: And here’s a photo of Team Milo hard at work, via Joystiq
