Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera comes with free TotemBall game

Microsoft’s Jeff Stone revealed at Gamefest this week in Seattle, the details on the launch of the Xbox Live Vision video camera accessory for the Xbox 360, including confirmation of a gesture-based game called TotemBall that is set to be included for free with the hardware.

Gamasutra says TotemBall is controlled almost entirely through gestures; that is, the game tracks a player’s arm movements to control a rickety, wheeled totem pole tower around each level, collecting items and trying to reach the exit within a time limit. Gesture-based gameplay is not foreign to Freeverse, who previously developed ToySight for the Macintosh, compatible with Apple’s iSight camera. Have a look at a showfloor demo:
More details below.

Much like Sony’s EyeToy series, the Xbox Live Vision camera has more gestural games that are in early development. In addition, the peripheral is compatible with selected Xbox Live Arcade games such as Uno, to allow video chat while gameplay is in progress, and with a newly announced facemapping feature for Activision’s World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (shown above). In the game the camera takes a frontal & sideways photo of the player’s head, which is then turned into a 3D representation of the player.

The Xbox Live Vision camera will ship with TotemBall on September 19th, at a price of $39.99. It’s coming to Europe on October 2nd.

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