Italian gaming site Multiplayer has got its grubby hands on some grubby pictures of something that looks very much like a Project Natal development kit, because it probably is. According to the site, it was sent to some guy testing the peripheral’s speech recognition functionality.
The pictures show the somewhat menacing camera array in a bunch of positions, as well as some of the accompanying documentation, which presumably didn’t mention anything about not leaking pictures of it. Here’s something interesting:
“The sensor array includes a new motorized tilt mechanism. Do not manually tilt the sensor array on its base. Doing so can damage the tilt mechanism.”
A tilt mechanism? Because that’s not… creepy. It’s not just looking and listening anymore, now it’s following you around. Next, it’s going to be thinking. Then it’s SkyNET. At least it’s externally powered.
For now.