This Spring, the Interactive Media Division and the USC Game Pipe will be offering classes where students will get hands-on experience working with and developing for the new XBOX 360 Natal device. Project Natal is a new, full-body interaction system for use with the XBox 360 game console. It allows players to interact with games in an entirely new way, by using their bodies as the controller. USC is the only school in the world that will be receiving advance Natal development kits.
The class will focus on creating games and experimenting with this novel interaction device. Students will be in bi-weekly communication with professionals at Microsoft who are on the Natal development team as well as mentors from throughout Microsoft.
The class will be taught by Jeremy Gibson from the Interactive Media Division and Michael Zyda of the Viterbi School’s GamePipe. It will fulfill 2 units of the CTIN Elective A requirement.
Registration is open now, and instructor permission is required to register. For more info, contact Jeremy Gibson.