eurogamer.net — Despite Engadget's claims, Microsoft's Shane Kim says that the systems making up Project Natal have been in development "for a long time", and distanced it from the acquisition of 3DV Systems. His colleague Aaron Greenberg was even more direct. Asked whether Natal was derived from 3DV technology, he told Eurogamer: "No, we built this in house."
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<a class="user" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/microsofts-project-natal-roots-revealed-3dv-systems-zcam/">http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/microsofts-proj ...</a>"We had a hunch that 3DV Systems' technology -- which we actually toyed with back at CES 2008 -- had something to do with Microsoft's newly unveiled Project Natal motion tracking solution, and today details have trickled in to us confirming as much. As the story goes, 3DV Systems was initially hoping to have the ZCam in the manufacturing process by the tail end of 2008, but Microsoft swooped in and acquired the outfit just weeks after it blew minds in January."