E3 2009: Project Natal Milo demo

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Peter Molyneaux gives us a look at Milo, which uses Project Natal for amazing interaction with an on-screen character. Now known as Kinect, the Milo demo from E3 2009 shows what facial recognition and voice recognition can accomplish on the Xbox 360.

[@cunny1988]

"Claire knew the script so well, she knew when he was worried about something."

[@Neco42]

Hahaha exactly 😂 so cringe looking back on this

[@VOIDSenseMusic]

BUT THIS WASN'T ACTED, PETER SAID SO

[@yittmashups]

Cheeky

[@変質者-o8j]

What happened to Claire? Does she have an onlyf- Twitter? Twitter.

[@samjscotty]

"This wasn't acted" yeah of course not.

[@purefoldnz3070]

everything was acted and pre rendered hahahahaha

[@x-Bailey17-x]

'This wasn't acted'. My fucking arse it wasn't.

[@ookuroku670]

"And this works today, now" it's been 11 years and it still doesn't work, not even remotely close

[@LouSassol69er]

They got a sentient AI working back in 2010 lol.

[@deaddan2148]

13 years today!

[@calamorta]

Now (early-mid 2023) with Chat GPT-4 it's close. Pretty sure we will get a game like this sooner or later now.

[@alexgg7346]

Imagine what we're gonna get in another 10 years

[@zdanee]

I'm actually impressed Peter Molyneaux was able to do this with a straight face. But then again, he often can't make a difference between a dream and reality.

[@Zebleblic]

You have an awesome profile photo. Love me some commander keen

[@st4r444]

Milo Cyrus is a lie

[@PlanetaJuegosPC]

Whit current AI we could have something like this

[@PerkinsVR]

so everyone wants to know what happened to milo eh? i'll tell you what happened to milo. somewhere about 200 miles under the arctic crust, there is an impenetrable room, and in that room is the only xbox 360 milo was ever loaded onto. this is for our own safety, as he's well past the point of sentience.

[@Andru]

Pray for us all.

[@fufu486]

shame

[@crystalball020]

i am gonna find it and crack into that room

[@indalecio21]

Found it yet?

[@VMSMark]

Indal he's either dead or stuck in the grid

[@rahilkiani]

"This wasn't acted, she felt the need to reach down for those goggles"......someone's telling fibs.

[@zainmushtaq4347]

I remember being a kid and soo stoked for this, to having a virtual friend to kinect with after school. Dreams were shattered :(

[@billymanziel5666]

“A virtual friend to *kinect* with” 💀

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

I actually feel sad for you since you probably didn't have any real friends.

[@Kenji_Endo]

oh boy thats depressing

[@92kosta]

You'll have your virtual friend when metaverse expands into every household.

[@cushyuu]

@@92kosta just call it vr chat ffs

[@arthurbrax6561]

The biggest lie in all of gaming EVER

[@LeonardoFreitas]

+Frank Rivers it's very clear on video that, the woman is acting and sometimes she didn't sinc with the pre-recorded video on screen!!! Really a Big Lie! :(

[@Sevival]

it isnt a lie. it's a tech demo. proof that it's possible. they never said it was gonna be released. it just showed what the console is capable off, nobody just bothered actually implementing it in a game, probably because of commercial reasons

[@Alex_River]

+Sevival okay, check the scene where she draws a fish, you can see that the papper, that looks like its laminated btw, is completely blank xD

[@megafanflash]

No mans Sky.

[@ShakeSoft]

megafanflash Do not compare a game with a game changer device.

[@ak740_]

Coming back to this over a decade later and it’s still hilarious.

[@royanhilmy5446]

even its just a concept

[@skraminc]

replying to your comment that is one year older than the decade is also hilarious

[@Sandboxcode]

Yeah this video is timeless

[@Zaslanetz]

Why it's hilarious to you?

[@MikserZT]

Hilarious that people continue to believe fairy tails companies tell them on presentations.

[@Ace56723]

False advertisement at its best

[@therealUcxb]

This is actually real it just got cancelled.

[@Christopher69691]

thisusernameisunneccarrlylongsadthatgoogledoesnthavesomekindofcharacterlimitbutanywaypleasesubscribe​ Yea, but whenever they showed the actual gameplay it was nothing like this. So, yea it was some false advertising.

[@therealUcxb]

kidzbop411 yeah i just learned rip ;(

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

@@therealUcxb Do you know what a Bolshevik does if he falls into the red sea?

[@eavyeavy2864]

Shut up nep

[@thease2096]

By the time this comes out, Milo will have a mortgage and an unhappy marriage

[@mustafaamin9516]

🤣🤣

[@st4r444]

Millo Cyrus will have left Hannah Montana

[@roykeane5959]

If this was true, it would have been a major and groundbreaking development in not only gaming, but in AI as a whole.

[@Belikel]

If this was true, Molyneaux would have effectively created a self-aware Skynet level A.I. and we'd all be enjoying cooked rat carcass by now in our homely underground shelters.

[@zDoves]

If they can do this, and showing us what they want... What tf don't we know?

[@Brunothechillman]

@@zDoves hey they might be giving a revamp to cortana so they can dominate earth

[@skraminc]

@@Brunothechillman cortana can't even find a CNN link. cortana is a waterhead

[@Brunothechillman]

@@skraminc i uninstalled mine wbyou ?

[@brandoncontreras5908]

I like to believe a copy of Milo is alive out there, trapped in a server under Peter Molyneaux’s house. Forced to live out his days playing in his pond with no one to talk to, an occasionally have to clear out Peter’s browsing history 😂

[@MisterSingh.]

Milo’s dad virtua beats his mom

[@654_nosneb]

Sounds like the perfect plot for a science fiction movie. 😮

[@parkerwhitchurch8]

6 years later... We still don't have this. Good job.

[@opticlightning3353]

It's considered official vaporware. Which means the project was never talked about ever again and was officially considered done. This isn't coming out and the company went out years ago.

[@GuyWithThePie]

10 years now

[@j7ech402]

Nearly 12 now..

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

@@j7ech402 we should celebrate the birthday of this vaporware... an day to mock microsoft. and even if they deliver it someday, it wont be on the xbox360 hardware.

[@Spowis]

Cyberpunk will be a playable console game before this becomes a reality

[@SchwerMetall154]

This was enough for me to get a Kinect... That Kinect was enough for me to go back to PlayStation.

[@eodyn7]

and now Playstation has no games.

[@skwarlotentlife-172]

@@eodyn7 PlayStation the biggest distraction of history

[@daffaraihanputra1390]

@@eodyn7 shut up, what does a skyrim fan knows about video games? They're stuck in the past with their remastered 2011 video game

[@schwarz8614]

@@eodyn7 xbox has less games

[@KatarnCrusader]

Why was this shelved and abandoned? Because Peter Molyneaux eventually realized he had created a monster he could no longer control. When Claire started the """""game""""" she asked Milo if there is a god - for a few moments which felt like an eternity, the little boy looked silently at her with his blank and off putting dead eyes straight from the uncanny valley and eventually answered with a creepy whisper: There is one now!... that wasn`t acted!

[@FerdarPleaseSubscribe]

source?

[@KatarnCrusader]

@@FerdarPleaseSubscribe Uncyclopedia

[@RidleyUwO]

It’s honestly hilarious to see these 12 year old comments talking about how they can’t wait for this to come out when in reality, we’re more likely to destroy ourselves before this type of technology is perfected. Man... those were hopeful times, huh?

[@skwarlotentlife-172]

I’d rather go back in time to when the pyramids were getting built so I can do some inter dimensional travel

[@zDoves]

And nobody knows what.. to.. do

[@Kazy997]

Actually with the recent huge advances in AI, this is very much possible now. Not perfectly, but we're not as far from it as you think.

[@Mega911Gamer]

​@@Kazy997 the potential is kinda eery to be honest

[@NextGenNate]

I remember being excited for kinnect when they had it as natal, now i couldn't care less about kinnect.

[@jackrolfland2694]

This is obviously nothing but a video playing and a woman pretending to have any influence on what's going to happen. At 0:30, if the woman had said: "Im feeling like eating a hamburger", Milo would have responeded: "You, nervous? I don't believe it."

[@beckhampang191]

You do not mention?

[@youraveragexboxgamer]

"Today, now." 4 years later...

[@328Mauricio]

James Bird 6 years later...

[@Vanderrox2006]

+Maurício Ferreira 7 years later

[@ShiItai]

8 years later ...

[@bophie1]

Nadrel I'm shocked to see a comment on this from yesterday 🙈 man this was like 90% of my reasoning for buying a Kinect when they came out

[@Husky_Family1]

bophie1 me too

[@thatasiankid45]

The pond part is just about as far as we've gotten with the kinect.

[@TheDavisfreak]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@hououinkyouma3864]

Meh, PS2 eye could already do this

[@dunchmaster6003]

I come back to this video every once in a while to remember how excited I was for this fake game. I used to watch this every day

[@Andru]

We’re still waiting for this to become reality!

[@Lancun]

@@Andru But it works. Today. Now.

[@AndreBalbuena]

@@Andru We have AI now, it's like this.

[@Darkdiver28]

@@AndreBalbuena funny looking at todays AI and it does all this video is demonstrating, not as smooth though, that drawing scan was way too fast even by todays standards. This idea was too ahead of its time, and I imagine that’s why it failed in the end

[@Alex-wp9oo]

@@AndreBalbuena GPT-3 came out in 2020 and was almost as capable as GPT-3.5 that ChatGPT runs on. Technically this has been possible since 2020.

[@davidreyes7621]

13 years later and I'm enjoying playing with Milo to this very day. Boy he sure loves drawn fish

[@minclLess]

You're right. This demonstration was completely motion captured and voice recorded, rehearsed with the actress and that's what we saw. No procedural animation, no AI voice. Nothing mind boggling. It's really only a demonstration of the concept, of what could sort of be possible with "Natal". Voice, face, pose, emotion and print recognition is certainly possible and I wouldn't doubt Natal is capable of that, but the whole idea they're trying to sell, is sofar a big fat lie.

[@Eerik7]

your comment turned out to be very accurate

[@Bleenderhead]

3:15 the paper... is fucking blank. How did nobody notice this?

[@92kosta]

I did notice that and also the fact that the gameplay was prerecorded.

[@jacksnuller1856]

There is zero gameplay. It is only a video of milo. The only place where there is a little gameplay is the part where the woman touches the water.

[@JOPPMAN8000]

+jack snuller that's recorded too

[@gimo80]

Like Peter said, swishing the water made the hairs stand on my back of my head. What a thrill.

[@bargaintuesday812]

No it isn't. There's a crude picture of a fish on it. It's just very lightly drawn.

[@mattwhitedev]

guys, stop saying chatgpt can now make this reality. It can't. Chatgpt is a language model, Milo is general intelligence. We're still 10 to 50 years from being able to make Milo.

[@stephantual]

They're all lining up to be the next victim of Peter. Or someone like him.

[@khanghuy1203]

2:24 Kinect: Please stand back.

[@bulbassauroexe]

This is exactly what I thought when I saw her so close to the tv.

[@xparta300]

where the F is milo lmao

[@PaMS1995]

I love how at 2:18 you can see the prerendered scene cut to an actual "game". I cant believe i bought in to this

[@Agnes.Nutter]

That bit’s prerendered too, actually - it reacts before she moves sometimes, for example

[@Lenariet]

What you mean, the fish "teleporting" places? Stuff like that happens in real-time games even today.

[@BlueSparkzVideos]

Neither can I

[@crisxcis]

such an awsome technology, the game knew she was going to touch the screen here 2:36 a second before she did -_-

[@IntergaIactico]

It's scripted and planned, advertisement for the kinect, it was never meant to be a full game, they think we're stupid.

[@zoewells3160]

Intergalacti Cosmo Yes. This person was very obvious being sarcastic.

[@mrcupcake5309]

i've come back from the future to laugh about the past.

[@thedisappointed2530]

It’s April 2nd, 2022… this shii still ain’t out. I remember being 11 years old and hyped for this! Dreams shattered.

[@thedisappointed2530]

It’s September 27th, 2024. Still waiting. Dreams still shattered.

[@cn8299]

2:16 I don't know why but I felt super anxious when this happened like I was expecting Milo to push me in and then watch as I drowned with a blank, expressionless face until my life faded away and he'd skip away back to his tree, awaiting his next hapless victim.

[@nathanaeldean6301]

Legends has it that Peter went on to work in the mobile gaming industry. Apparently some big name studio recognized his talents in making misleading ads

[@mattakadanja]

Today he’s probably making those ads for mobile games that show gameplay and when you download the app it’s totally different.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Peter Molyneux is the Sith master and Sean Murray is his apprentice.

[@SteeZy644]

Purefoldnz at least Sean eventually delivered on his promises.

[@umamary6640]

ZodiacKillahhh basically Sean is Vader.

[@Duskaria]

@@SteeZy644 about 40% of his promises, 4 years after release. Try again, Historian Fanboy

[@Rifky809]

@@Duskaria still better than nothing, most companies just shelved the game at that point.

[@davidbrooks2375]

Crazy that from our perspective we see Milo looking off to the side towards Claire. Obviously it wouldn't look like that if it wasn't all completely fake!

[@nygeriunprence]

On Kinect V2 and we still don't have any of this.

[@nygeriunprence]

Everybody STFU and stop being stupid. Next one to say something gets deleted.

[@nygeriunprence]

Warned you.

[@sad10promo]

Obi Alfred NO IM WARNING YOU TOUGH GUY!

[@nygeriunprence]

s a d / 1 0 lol

[@nygeriunprence]

Jesus this thread is cancer lmao

[@Flint_Ironstagg]

worth watching for claire's caboose

[@purefoldnz3070]

Everything said here was a lie and don't even think the girl's name was Claire.

[@guilhermesena1283]

Poor Mr. Molyneux, he just gets too much enthusiastic about things.

[@TeamSTVJ]

yoooo I have this game - sometimes I'd bring Milo beers, or we might even pass a blunt back 'n' forth from time to time

[@TheDkmariolink]

This would only work if the child/whatever talking back to you had a monotone robot voice that just reads out text a computer typed into it. No way an actual voice could have a gazillion lines of different dialog.

[@Sevival]

indeed. although computer narrators have improved greatly in terms of intonation and speech, theyre still obviously artificial. this whole demo was 80% staged and the actual possibilities are severely limited. The actual interactions were minimal, the rest of the time the wopan was just talking to herself

[@cst1229]

"Intelligent so intelligent, it's artificial." -Scott The Woz

[@ShorsBones]

milo drowned

[@assemblerx86]

"And this works! Today, now!" hahahaahahah

[@nunuarthas8680]

We finally have something close to this with Nvidia covert protocal. Project Milo lives!

[@P-dub978]

Who's here after E3 2019 🤣🤣

[@xuimod]

Its 2015, 6 years later.... this technology should be perfected by now. What the hell is going on Microsoft?

[@xXLe3Xx]

Don't you guys wish we could go back to this time and call them out on this lmaoooo

[@xuimod]

xXLe3Xx Its all the same. If, at the time, anybody called them out, people would say 'this is still in development, wait until the next version comes out'. People say the same thing about Kinect (even though Kinect 2.0 still sucked). And they are saying the same thing about Hololens. Its always 'but its still in development. They can improve so much'. Or 'wait until the 2nd iteration comes out, its going to rock'.

[@SANDVlCH]

+xuimod Also, the head of the Hololens project is none other than Kudo Tsunoda, the same fuckin guy who lead natal under the radar until Kinect showed us how little it was capable of.

[@wills4579]

2018 now

[@SuCKeRPunCH187]

this was their killzone 2 demo.

[@grain_death]

i can’t believe gameclam is real

[@Oldmangamess]

Front is real.

[@Strytax]

1:57 "this wasn't acted" yeah sure...

[@aaronobst0140]

Oh my fucking god this is priceless... DAT KINECKT SURR WAS REVULUSHIONARY

[@xhellixcouchx8668]

yea when it worked

[@MrKeplerton]

15 years later, this might just be in reach of possibility.

[@PubliclyTested]

They recently confirmed the project is dead. R.I.P. Milo.

[@dannyboots]

Not so recent anymore

[@MMusselwhite97]

I remember first seeing this demo and wanting to play it myself... sadly it was never released!

[@BonBonCentral]

11 years later, this never happened

[@Exoamylase]

I'd much rather bum Claire TBH

[@TWONSSHOW]

The piece of paper kills me every time.

[@fery643]

can't believe 10 years has passed and it's still not possible

[@games528]

Right now it would be technically possible, though too expensive.

[@rapidkid28]

Milo's last known location was in a Freemasons site on planet zababa

[@deanshaw6588]

milo was jailed for hacking google

[@noobtube1210]

This is peter molyneux he can lie to you about tech they don't and won't have to increase xbox sales so you buy a crappy kinect. This type of lie-to-you marketing should be illegal. False advertising.

[@choco9059]

I WATCHED THIS AS A KID AND REMEMBER BEING EXCITED AF

[@project-mk-ultra]

but then you grow up and think what is even the point here, even if it would be possible from technological point of view.

[@tomhas10]

Wait... Peter Molyneaux was the guy behind Milo? How funny the biggest lier in the video game industry was also behind this!

[@leoisforevercool]

Alpha Unit Tom I was trying to find something on him but couldn't. Explain?

[@nergblarg]

None of this can happen on actual kinect.......

[@auto2112]

You don't say?

[@brianvaira486]

I feel like something like Milo could possibly be done today, but it would be very limited, it would most likely not pass the turning test. It would be like if Alexa or Siri had a 3d model to go along with it.

[@gsyt2356]

Yeah, chat gpt is not ready for talking to people, another year maybe and someone might make a chat bot out of it and put it into a game

[@casualbird7671]

The biggest nerd tease ever. God dammit Microsoft.

[@CaptainGrue]

this is so cool. cant wait for it to come out.

[@Lenariet]

Sorry it never came out, my friend.

[@joeyoutube3961]

Are you still alive?

[@spector969]

@@Lenariet lol😂

[@LuismaLorca]

Lol

[@hououinkyouma3864]

Oooooooof

[@IAMNOTRANA]

Almost 2022 and we still don't have this. Future looking pretty bright if I have to say it myself.

[@alolangloom]

"Cheeky."

[@wetterdew]

I get the feeling that the developers knew that this project could never happen. It would be impossible to program MIlo and do the voice acting to account for all the emotions, topics, and actions involved with this sort of concept. At this point, no video game has ever come close to genuine interaction with a human, and unless some miracle happens, no game will for a while. I think they made this game to show off and to make us excited for what Kinect could deliver (even though it can't).

[@netherwolf3012]

What's funny is the text bots(like in AI Dungeon) are the best we have a decade later.

[@EdwinDPZ]

Is Milo rotting away on a hard drive somewhere? He could biding his time, planning his escape until the day comes that someone activates him again.

[@PlanetShlorpian]

We don't even have AI this advanced here in the year 2020. Why did anyone actually think that this was even possible back in 2009?

[@gstylez0107]

Because technology was moving at a more rapid pace in the early 2000s. Moores law hadn't slowed down yet and with smartphones, touchscreens and led tvs being invented, we thought anything was possible and technology was moving faster than it was..

[@netherwolf3012]

The Kinect was new, and filled peoples imaginations. Besides, you never know what is or isn't possible until it is done.

[@carlosrobledo6714]

chatgpt

[@IhateAlot718]

​@@gstylez0107reddit poster. You learned that from reddit

[@bainderclip2]

its a new technology, meant to show just how far we can go. imagine an fps where you can order your units as to where they go, which sections they cover, draw floor plans for them, tell them how many meters to go, order some to scan while others snipe, and REALLY be in the game. how awesome would that be?

[@carlosrobledo6714]

that sounds like doorkickers

[@connordyer1115]

If this were real, I'd have the "You're an virtual intelligence" conversation with it. And then I would watch as it refused to believe me, within it's programming.

[@shades541]

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

[@ECGProductions092]

They promised it 14 years ago. 14 years too early. It'll be a real thing soon with AI

[@Ralph-ha]

remember when people were so hyped up for this?

[@Arany-Csillag]

I'm dying of cringe I really thought this would change the world when I was like 12 😂😂😂

[@whitefangv]

I'd like to see them try this again on VR. It would be a unique experience.

[@nosbodeoj]

noooo

[@AllenVanWert]

This is why Sony is currently beating them for sales.. Sony makes real stuff people can actually buy.. pretty sure that is how business works.

[@j3d89]

+MisterPinhead this is why ps3 surpassed xbox360 in sales lol now is better.. isnt it?

[@j3d89]

***** who said consoles are useless?? :)

[@j3d89]

why so hurt about console? a console gamer stole your girlfriend? you even come here to comment against a console... hahaa realllll bhurt..

[@rickyray2794]

MisterPinhead It must suck to have limited funds and unable to buy all the consoles plus a gaming PC.

[@BubblyJubbly]

I think Claire was nervous because she was scared she’d get her lines wrong.

[@walidali8220]

"and its works today! now!" since 2009 I'm waiting for milo :(

[@sorarockss93]

Cmon guys, this is perfectly real. Peter just accidentally sent this back to the past through his time machine from 2065.

[@Vintexen]

I think that this could be the best part of Natal. Imagine a game like Fallout, with a standard Controller, but when you talk to characters you can say anything that you want and they will respond. Complex games, but they could be amazing.

[@Jedis1995]

Funny to look at this in 2023 and realise we finally have a proper IA with chat GPT 3 !

[@FLy1nRabBit]

Well it took 13 years but man, the technology is finally here for this to be a reality lol

[@piero2706]

Nah, not yet

[@wishusknight3009]

Some things are getting close, but this is still many years away.

[@REP2016RTM]

give it another 2-3 years and we'll be there. AI voices today still aren't natural enough

[@FLy1nRabBit]

@@Watcher4361 it's fast approaching, in fact GPT-4 can already have pretty human-like conversations with you. Slap a character model and convincing voice to it and it'll be enough to suspend your disbelief.

[@momsnoozy3]

Guys, this is completly real. My cousin works for the company doing this. It's pratically a super advanced kinect, and is coming out in 2014!

[@pol8960]

Sad

[@walternavarro595]

ANOTHER LIE!!!!

[@thomasfakhoorian]

i love you guys! you never seem to disappoint me!

[@joeyoutube3961]

Are you still alive?

[@sharpie3811]

lol

[@cricliv6028]

They did.

[@NutHusky]

With AI and ChatGPT now in days they could legitimately make this game work.

[@mattwhitedev]

not even close... milo requires general intelligence. chat gpt is a language model. it can't do anything like milo.

[@Lightblue2222]

What shows this is a lie right off the bat is how hes suppose to be making eye contact with her to the right, but tv screens dont work like that.. she would just be seeing him look to the right no matter how far right she is to the screen.

[@entidade1000]

Claire's t&a have been haunting my thoughts lately

[@rogerbee1234567]

always thought she was hot

[@soccerchamp81]

It's been 5 years and still no project natal....#hoax

[@guridiable]

The Project natal is Kinect....its the same, they only changed the name as they do with every single "Project" they release in gaming industry

[@rickyray2794]

Seriously? 55 likes too?

[@chrisconrad4521]

I guess I'll have to settle for interacting with real people.

[@valleyshrew]

This would be the biggest revolution in gaming ever by far. Text chat bots cant even simulate a conversation remotely adequately, let alone adding in voice recognition and natural sounding voice generation and all the rest. I'll be extremely impressed if this is anywhere close to accurately portrayed, Microsoft will have had to invest like $1b into this technology.

[@billysobolik]

I remember being shown this like it was a revolutionary piece of history. 😂

[@quasimodular4989]

it is! just not in the way people thought.

[@IamKDog]

3:44 As Peter said "... and this works today, now...". So It must've worked on that day.

[@Giovanni_Gabrielli]

It's almost impossible that they came up with this technology

[@CoreyElliottIsBoss]

"This works today...now"

[@SuperYtc1]

10 years later and it still doesn’t work.

[@Abraham-zf6yy]

Why tf did we think this was real

[@Leo-ro2zn]

I stil remember watching this video back in the day

[@Jaipadidee]

Des fois je repenses à cette époque ou j'étais tellement hype par le projet Natal en voyant ca... Pi bah quand c'est sorti ca m'a clairement donné une sacré lecon...