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Microsoft is seemingly unsure if Milo and Kate, its Kinect virtual boy demonstration from E3 2009, will eventually appear as a full game, but the technology behind it is already being seen in the first wave of Kinect titles.
Speaking to OXM at E3 earlier this month, Phil Spencer, VP of Microsoft Game Studios, said: “Milo and Kate, the technology is stuff that we’re still incubating back in the studios.”
“I think Lionhead has always been a great place, and the nice thing about Peter [Molyneux] as Creative Director in Europe is you start to see some of those ideas around Milo also showing up in other places, so Kinectimals is actually done at Frontier.
“But Peter being so close has actually been able to take many of the learnings that Lionhead has done and help other teams, and when you see the interaction between the girl and the animal on stage you can see similarities to stuff we were working on with Milo, so we start with experiments and they may turn into games themselves. We may not have had anything to announce today with Milo but understand that those investments in creative research show up in many places.”
Milo is being wheeled out in front of an audience once again at the 2010 TEDGlobal on July 13, when Molyneux will be chatting about his “astonishing new virtual friend”.
