It was supposed to be one of Kinect's crown jewels: Lionhead's Milo & Kate, a game about a virtual reality boy and your friendship, was to show off the sensor's prowess like none other. Complex voice recognition, object scanning, sophisticated AI — it seemed too good to be true and so it proved, as the project was cancelled late last year. Since then, fascinating insights from the project have emerged, a Kinect Milo behind the scenes video among the most impressive, but this video from the recent Games Developers Conference in San Francisco really takes the cake.

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