Engadget have posted a video from a Microsoft event in Tel Aviv yesterday which showcased some of the technology which will be present in the upcoming Project Natal. The video below shows how Natal recognises full body movement, of not just one but two people in real-time.  This definitely has potential for some cool competitive and co-op mini-games, for example a Wild West dual or some beach volleyball (off the top of my head). As well as that, Natal uses face recognition to determine the gender of the player and represents them with a male or female avatar accordingly. Pretty cool right?

But what of butch ladies and girly gentlemen? I can see some offended players in the future. In relation to that, I found some of the comments on the Engadget post hilarious, notably “How’s Lady Gaga supposed to get her game on?” to which someone replied “Natal obviously can’t see her Poker Face silly”.  Genius.

Hit the jump for the video.

via Engadget.