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Ubisoft’s Your Shape is the first game to use a camera designed specifically for Nintendo’s Wii console.

At a media briefing earlier today in San Francisco, Ubisoft’s PR senior manager Chris Norris (in the video below) went into more details about the game:

1. Your Shape start shipping on Nov. 24 for $70 and includes the camera peripheral;
2. The Ubisoft camera is manufactured by French-company Guillemot and is the very first one available for the Wii console. Ubisoft convinced Nintendo to open up the Wii’s USB port;
3. Ubisoft will release more games using that  said a bit more on how the use of the camera for future game, and not just for fitness. Expect some action game too!;
4. The underlying motion tracking technology used in the game was designed by Ubisoft’s Barcelona studio;
5. The camera scans the player’s body and creates a 3D model of it, assesses their fitness level, suggests a personalized workout routine based on the player’s fitness level and ultimate goals, projects the player’s image onto the TV next to Jenny McCarthy’s avatar in real time during the workout, and provides guidance at the same time.

With Ubisoft’s webcam, Nintendo is finally catching up to Sony’s Playstation Eye and ahead of Microsoft’s own motion sensing technology, Project Natal, coming next year.