Formally Project Natal, this new feature has been eagerly awaited by the gaming and in-home entertainment market for some time now and is set for a release November 2010 in the UK.

This fantastic piece of hardware will position you (the player) as the controller. Think of Nintendo Wii, but with better graphics, better response time and NO controllers…

This is astonishing equipment, and a leap forwards in entertainment towards virtual reality.

You can tell from the clips that this is more targeted towards friends and family use, but regardless of this it is still going to be an essential purchase for the gaming market.

This is the first time a console has made the step away from a controller. Using a motion sensitive camera on the Kinect device, it can track your entire movements throughout a room and even interact back with you through voice commands.

What I particularly like about the Kinect is the voice commands. When I was younger I always thought it was spectacularly impressive when a person talked to a computer in a film or something, and it responded…..you can do this now! So mix that all in with the fact that your entire body is now the controller and you have an absolute winning formula.

I think this will shoot the Nintendo Wii straight out the water, people will be trading it in like its nobody’s business and there will be a dramatic shift over to Xbox 360 as the console of choice. Nintendo really need to step up, because they are really being left in the shadows – more so than ever if Xbox take away their younger/family audience with Kinect.

PS3 will no doubt do something similar in the future, but I think the next big platform for the entertainment industry is 3D consoles….watch this space