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Watch as two women, two WP7 devices, and a Kinect pelt a man with rubber balls

by Ben Gilbert on Feb 14th 2011 4:20PM

It's not every day that Microsoft shows off its own technology being used for the forces of evil, but it did just that during company head Steve Ballmer's keynote at Mobile World Congress. Engadget was on hand to witness Kinect Adventures' Rally Ball minigame being controlled not just by a Kinect, but also two Windows Phone 7 devices controlling the flow of rubber balls being distributed. It's all fun and games until the gentleman playing is overtaken by a monstrous flood of rubber balls.

Microsoft notes that the demonstration was strictly a "tech demo," but it certainly hints at the possible future of Windows Phone/Xbox integration. It also opens the pandora's box-like door to Kinect/WP7/Surface crossovers, finally. Get a look at synergy in action just after the break.

Source: Engadget

Tags: kinect, Kinect-Adventures, microsoft, mobile, mobile-world-congress, mwc-2011, rally-ball, steve-ballmer, tech-demo, windows-phone-7, wp7, xbox

Reader Comments (33)

Hot damn
I havent seen this many balls since I last saw that flasher I arrested.

@DetectiveStabler
*those flashers

@DetectiveStabler
So, are you a woman, a eunuch, or did he have more than two?

@DetectiveStabler

I haven't seen that many balls since first grade.

I haven't seen that many balls since I spent that summer in the Amazon.

ad nauseum

Completely stolen from the Flash game Curveball.

@Apakal I hope you're just being facetious

@vor

He probably does, at least twice a day ; )

Both Curveball and Rally Ball have always reminded me of my favourite Dreamcast game, Cosmic Smash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba76jf8e45Y

@Apakal

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!

Do we really have to play that game?

gimmicky is as gimmicky does.

@Mortegro
It's a tech demo - I think it has better impact showing simple fun as opposed to what so many of you think of as hardcore.

@Duke That's just the problem though. They never seem to evolve beyond tech demos packaged as games.

The technology is interesting but I'd like to see some games I want to play with the said technology.

Dance, monkey, dance!

Sadly, the most interesting things I see online about the Kinect either have nothing to do with real games or are so convoluted that they don't matter. PC mods don't make for a good console peripheral.

Shouldnt be the other way around where the guy tosses his balls at women???

@DeAD W8

Damn casual market watering down our gaming experiences

Microsoft innovation, much like a dream, awesome for a few minutes or an hour then back to reality and you barely remember why you were there in the first place

@Talenhawk

That sums up my three months of owning a Wii.

multicultural, everyones happy!

I have to admit, I got a good laugh at that. Not the same level of dickery that is to be found in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but dickery nonetheless.

Expensive dickery.

Wondering how long it will take before we can buy full body motion sensory feedback suits.

(girls at the end) HIGH FIVES! That was awsome! We love video games! Let's talk about it!

(5 minutes later) "Now was that a X-station or what? Nevermind... I don't care."

@bre30127 LOL - or better yet - high five - CUT - thanks girls. Girl 1: Ugh, get me out of this studio and punch me up a paycheck. Girl 2: I hope that fashion agency calls me - I can't go on like this.

This seems like it would be pretty cool for a baseball game...pitcher on the phone and batter in front of the Kinect. Just sayin...

That guy sure plays with his balls a lot.

Seriously, the idea of using the phone, kinect and 360 together is very very cool.

I had to watch that without the sound.
Was it better with the sound?
I doubt it.

A black chick and an Asian chick beating up on a white guy? Racismsexism!

That's so corny... Goya might have a lawsuit brewing

No sarcasm? I was getting so used to the little jabs in the post. On, wait, a Flaying Hamster and PS+ news item. Let me go check that. I'm sure to find a little jab thrown in on the post there.

This is easy to ridicule, but, as someone that played Gamecube's FF:CC with my wife and two friends, I couldn't be more excited about the potential here.

The barrier to entry to this kind of system was always that so few people own the secondary controlers to make it work. I ended up owning several GBAs just to play CC with friends. If the WP7 platform takes off, suddenly a much wider set of people are able to play this.

To defuse some of the kneejerk-reactionism: nothing inherently ties Kinect to this demo - it could just as readily show 360 interop with WP7 devices. Imagine Steel Battalion where friends control armament reload, repairs, or other subsystems. Transforming a single player experience into a cooperative one exponentially increases the fun.

Oh I just don't care about Kinect or WP7 at all. Now you can slap balls while someone touches more balls on their phone. Great.

They should make a Cosmic Smash game for the Playstation Move. Now that would be something to get excited about.

@Jovrick : If you don't give a crap about either platform why bothering posting?

@Alan Strangis
Oh I suppose I do it just to any people like you. Any-time I say anything even remotely bad about Kinect or anything else related to Microsoft gaming someone like you acts as though I've raped their mother.

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