You are a game controller

Project Natal Xbox 360. "You are a game controller." You don't need any controller. You can control the image on the display via your gestures. Talking of the gesture for game, I have Nintendo Wii which needs Wii remote for playing the game. We normally do actions with something physical like a racket for table tennis or a sword for Kendo. In fact, I can easily play those sports in Wii Sports resort. How about playing them without something physical to keep holding?  I think that I would have the strength for it. Although we hold Wii remote in order to play Wii games, it is different between the feelings for hitting a ball with a racket and for hitting a ball image on the display with  Wii remote which gives us sound and vibration. However, many people do not care this difference and feel as if Wii gives us 'real' feelings. We do not hold anything physical in Natal, therefore we can not feel some vibrations. We have to control our actions based on only the image on the display and sound. The sense of sight and hearing controls our whole body actions.

I consider about the feeling of swishing the air in soccer when I watch demonstration movie of Natal. It is like something empty. When try to kick the ball which is the physical entity, my body gets some tenses for a feedback from the ball.  Then, I miss my kick. Our body tenses can not go to the ball and return to my own body. If I understand that there is nothing physical contact, my body do not get any tenses. As a result, we can do our actions without any body tenses because there is nothing physical feedback in Natal. Maybe, we use our sense of sight and hearing as a substitution for our body tenses to the contact of something physical. Even though we do the actions in Natal as same as the ones in the physical world, how our brain reacts in this situation? If we keep doing this no physical feedback actions, our body will store new kind of experience and what will happen for us.

Writhing this entry, I remember that I did a practice swing without a racket many times when I belong to a tennis club in a junior high school.  Maybe, this practice teaches me 'form' for hitting the ball in the tennis. However, there is the difference between a practice swing with a racket and without racket because our body tenses change for the weight of it. 'Form' reminds me of 'NOU' or Pantomime. Natal and Pantomime. However, there is no 'weight' or physical 'resistance' in Natal in comparison with good pantomime. Anyway, we have to play long time in no physical feedback environment like Natal long time in order to understand its effects for us.