Milo

A really cool application of Project Natal is that very natural interaction

could occur between humans and computer generated characters.

Milo is one such character. He is a young British boy who lives in

your television. Using Project Natal's interface, he can talk with

you and take you on his adventures. For example, in the

YouTube video, Milo and Clara, the human, were talking. It sounded

a bit scripted, but his inflection and movements were fairly realistic.

Clara discovers that Milo has not started his school project (how

she knew he had one was never explained), so she offers to help.

Milo decides that he wants to catch and draw fish for his project,

so they head over to the local fish pond. Milo tosses Clara some

glasses through the TV, which Clara pretends to catch. According

to the narrator, everyone who has tried Milo out goes to catch the

glasses. After Clara looks in the pond and splashes around for

a bit, Milo wants some help drawing a picture of a fish. Using a

conveniently located paper and marker to draw a fish, Clara holds

it up to the TV. Project Natal recognizes that it is paper and scans

it. Meanwhile, Milo reaches out and "takes" the drawing from Clara.

While I strongly doubt that Milo is currently functional enough to be

released to the general public, as the video implies, some of how

Milo interacts is possible. I also don't know what function a boy inside

your TV would serve, but its really cool nonetheless.