00:01As I said, at CES we announced this product, Avatar Connect, and did sort of a video introduction of it
00:08with Steve as an avatar.
00:12Nobody has actually seen this thing live, and you're about to see it live.
00:19Rina is part of the development group that has worked on this technology, and she's going to give you a
00:26live demo of what this thing is going to be like.
00:28If you harken back to the previous demo where he had that lounge where people could get together and had
00:35eight people and their avatars were there today,
00:37today they can only animate their avatar with the controller button, say, you know, jump up or applause or something.
00:43But our real dream is to say that you want the Connect camera to basically do that animation live and
00:50in real time.
00:52And so that's what you're about to see is how that's going to work.
00:55So Rina, over you.
00:56Great.
00:57So as Craig was saying, Avatar Connect is a new title that we're working on for the Xbox.
01:02It's a social experience, currently under development.
01:05It's going to bring your avatar to life.
01:08So to start, I've got, if you can't recognize it, my avatar over there on the left that I've already
01:12created with my Xbox Live profile and logged in with it.
01:16It's not tracking me now, but it's just letting me know that I'm logged in with that profile.
01:49And I'm just going to wave to engage Nui.
01:50We'll give you an overview of a few of the stages.
01:53We have a few really fun ones for you to just kind of socialize and hang out with your friends,
01:57magic forest, space, tailgate party.
02:00We're going to trash talk before the game.
02:03We're seeing some crickets on Sky TV.
02:06I understand that's what's on right now.
02:08If you're kind of a super user, content producer, we've also got a set of TV, like TV show-like
02:14backgrounds where you can host your own TV show.
02:17And I'll show you a bit of that later on.
02:20We've also got a bunch of stages that are actually kind of aimed more at kids.
02:24And in fact, this one over on the right, the kids stage, was actually designed by the daughter of someone
02:28on our team.
02:28We converted her pencil sketches into one of the background stages.
02:33We actually did a play test recently with some kids who really actually loved kind of being an avatar,
02:37playing around with these different backgrounds and firing off the special effects, which you'll see.
02:43So I'm going to start off to go back into the performance stage.
02:49Yeah, Jeremy right there.
02:51But this one's really, excuse me, might be, there's a lot of you in the background,
02:58so I think it's quite possible that someone else grabbed control of the cursor accidentally.
03:04But I think I'm in control again now.
03:07We'll go in the performance stage, and I've just been going by myself, monologue, right now.
03:14When the stage first loads up, you're going to see an animation play of my avatar.
03:19entering the stage, I'll let you ask it out.
03:26All right, and now I'm a star.
03:29So I'm in control of my avatar.
03:31You can see my avatar's mouth is moving as I speak.
03:35My eyebrows are moving.
03:36And this, in fact, was what Steve Ballmer showed up in this ESVU.
03:42I look angry.
03:47And if I'd like, I can kind of stretch side to side, getting ready for my big performance.
03:54We also let you record what you're doing inside Avatar Connect.
03:58So if you wanted to actually record a review for something you saw on Sky TV, you could.
04:02I could record, say, a birthday greeting for my mom.
04:06Woo!
04:07Get some effect.
04:10Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
04:13That was my lady dog invitation.
04:18So now what I'd like to show you next is actually the multiple participants experience.
04:23So I'm going to go ahead and select a different stage.
04:26Hopefully no one will grab the cursor from me this time.
04:29I'm going to go ahead and go into a TV show, into a lineup, because I'm going to have a
04:35few
04:35guests joining me.
04:37But this is my opportunity to be Diane Sawyer, host my own show.
04:42And you'll also see that the camera is going to shift around as I do so, just kind of like
04:46you'd expect on a TV show.
04:47Oh, oh, oh, oh, hello, hello there, Rita.
04:54Excellent.
04:55Welcome to the special President's Day edition.
04:57I'm so delighted that two former presidents of the United States of America could join me,
05:01Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
05:04Well, thank you very much for having us, Rita.
05:06I have to say that this is the first time in, what is it now, 179 years, I guess, that
05:13I've
05:14ever been represented as an Avatar.
05:18Of course, four and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this console a new application
05:24dedicated to the proposition that all avatars are created equal.
05:30You are such a blowhard.
05:32Of course, all avatars aren't created equal.
05:35For instance, you would never see someone like me hawking used mattresses on late night
05:41television.
05:42Honestly, our prices cannot be minted.
05:45That's not presidential, Abe.
05:48Where is your dignity, man?
05:51Wrong to the punk from a man who's on the $1 bill, boss.
05:55I never...
05:56Well, gentlemen, please, really, I brought you here today for President's Day, and I'd like
06:02to wish you both a happy President's Day.
06:05Yes.
06:06Happy President's Day.
06:07I'd like to reach across the aisle, so to speak, to my esteemed colleague.
06:13Uh, I'm not going to be shaking your hand.
06:15I don't trust you.
06:16This isn't what I was promised.
06:18This is not the forum I was prepared for.
06:20You'll be hearing from my agent.
06:22I promise you that.
06:23Well, Irv, thank you, Mr. President.
06:27He's so sensitive.
06:29I tried, honestly.
06:30You did.
06:32And that is what you're known for.
06:33I really appreciate you making an appearance on my show this week.
06:39Thank you.
06:40Now I'm about to get it, Irv.
06:42All right.
06:43Thanks again, Mr. President.
06:46All right.
06:47And that concludes this week's edition of my TV show.
06:53So at this point, I can record the TV show on the Xbox, although all of you are recording
06:58it, but I'm just going to go ahead and, thankfully for me, but I'm going to go back to the
07:04home
07:04screen and just kind of show you here.
07:07We have a section here on the bottom where you would go in and actually view any previous
07:11recordings that you had made and decide which ones of those you wanted to upload and share
07:16with your friends.
07:17So all of these will be available on the Connect Share website, which is a website currently used
07:23by the other Connect titles to post up pictures and video, and our videos will be available
07:27there.
07:28And from there, you'll be able to share it to your friends on Facebook or download it.
07:33So just so you.
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