You knew it was coming, right? Hot upon a heels of removing leaked the diminutive bit early Microsoft has done official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a brand-new name: “Project Natal” is no some-more, replaced by Microsoft Kinect. At the playground- and celebrity-filled event, MS wrapped everybody in high-tech panchos (pictured after the mangle courtesy of Joystiq) as well as afterwards took the wraps off of a new pretension. Quite a few diversion demos were shown, ranging from Star Wars to tiger petting, the Kinect interface to the Dashboard was shown (said by a little to be Minority Report-like), and the video discuss app called, wait for for it, Video Chat. Through here you can of course speak to friends (up to 4 sum people during once was “shown”), and additionally share photos.

Sadly, no hands-on time was since nor did MS exhibit a dual consequential pieces of report we’re watchful for: price as well as date. Naturally a legal holiday release is approaching, to give the Xbox 360 a good sales progress, though we’re conference price rumors as tall as $150. These choice bits of intel will surely be denounced at Microsoft’s eventuality tomorrow — if someone doesn’t beat ‘em to it. The hardware is still seeking exactly similar to a early picture on top of, shattering hopes of the slimmer pattern to compare new Slim Xbox 360.

Update: We’ve got central photos now, though plain textual info is still scarce. Stand by!
Microsoft Kinect Official Pics