Announced at E3 last May, the Xbox Live Camera for Xbox 360 lets you video chat and message with your friends and gives you a true interactive experience. As an integrated part of Xbox 360’s Xbox Live experience you can connect and communicate with friends while playing, listening to music or watching movies. When you play motion-detection-enabled games online the Xbox live camera inserts you into the game and helps you control the characters.

For the first time, you'll be able to see the people that you play with day in and day out. It may be quite a shock to the system when you discover that the mates that you thought you had are actually big gay bears with more than gaming on their minds.

To celebrate the launch of the camera Microsoft have offered the first game that uitilises the vision camera for free. Totemball is available now for free download on the Xbox live marketplace.

Totemball

The members of the ancient Ptolmec tribe compose striking and innovative music in TotemBall. When they simultaneously discover gunpowder and barbeque, the explosive results scatter their musical totems across the breadth of the jungle!

Now Pterry the Pturtle must roll across mountains, islands, bridges, and through giant pinball games to retrieve the lost totems and bring the groovy Ptolmec music back to the party. Using your Xbox Live® Vision camera, help Pterry recover all the musical totems while moving to the totem beat.

* Move: Control Pterry through this musical platforming adventure using your Xbox Live Vision camera.
* Cooperate: Join in with a friend to juggle your totem collection using the camera and a controller.
* Roam: Use Free Play mode to practice and explore environments without affecting your progress.
* Groove: Sway to the sounds of the music generated in-game by you!

Watch the You Tube footage of Totemball in action.

The camera is due for release on October 6th.Play.com have the camera available at the price of £29.99.