Peter Molyneux revealed more details about his bizarre human-simulator Milo and Kate at TEDglobal 2010 in Oxford. The title, designed to work with the 360 motion-sensing Kinect, promises to allow unprecedented levels of interaction with a virtual intelligence. At one point, reports Wired, Milo even knocks a plate of sausages to the floor.
Otherwise the presentation involved telling the virtual boy to stamp on snails, teaching him to skim stones, cleaning his room and using Kinect's voice technology to say something in a reassuring tone.
"Most of it is a trick," admitted Molyneux, "but it's a trick that works."
The developer also revealed that Milo's intelligence will be cloud-based, becoming smarter as more people use it. Whether this means his vocabulary will increase alongside his ability to understand accents, or that he'll someday find a way to crawl out of your television at night and strangle you with a scart lead, remains to be seen.
Milo's currently without a release date, but is expected to arrive alongside, if not shortly after, the release of Kinect.