Also announces a number of new games for the Xbox
Microsoft has announced Project Natal, a new controller-free video gaming system, which reads a players body movements with cameras and mimics them with avatars on screen, will be available for purchase by the holiday season this year.
The announcement came at the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)here.
Microsoft has demonstrated the system at another trade show last year, but had not set a release date until Wednesday. It is still unclear how much the system will cost, although Microsoft says Natal add-ons will work with its existing Xbox 360 gaming console.
Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president for entertainment and devices, announced a number of new games for the Xbox, including a new edition of the popular game Halo, which is due out in the spring.
"What Star Wars is to film and what Harry Potter is to fantasy books, Halo is to the gaming industry," he said.
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