In a late audience with CNET , Bill Gateslet spillthe true scope of Microsoft ’s ambition for the technology behind the Xbox ’s Project Natal . Basically , it is n’t just a gaming doohickey — they want to try it everywhere .
Here ’s how everyone ’s still - favorite Microsoft figurehead ( sorry Ballmer ! ) sees camera - base move technical school play out :
[ The conception also go ] for media ingestion as a whole , and even if they link it up to Windows microcomputer for interacting in terms of meetings , and collaboration , and communicating … I call back the note value is as expectant for if you ’re in the home , as you want to care your movies , music , plate system case stuff , it ’s very coolheaded there .
coalesce with his command that it ’s specifically “ Windows guys ” who ’ve latch onto the technology , this imply something like a motion - controlled Windows , core program set or , at the very least , Media Center . He does n’t volunteer any particular , but gesture - based music , telecasting and pic manipulation are n’t too difficult to imagine . What about business office uses ? :
… I think there ’s incredible value as we utilise that in the office connected to a Windows PC . So Microsoft inquiry and the intersection group have a good deal going on there , because you may use the cost reduction that will take shoes over the old age to say , why should n’t that be in most agency environments .
So the coolest affair about Natal in the workplace is , establish on what we know now , “ cost reduction . ” guy cable , I want dance - actuated PowerPoint presentations at a lower limit .
We ’ll probably see some meaty details about Microsoft ’s wider apparent motion control ambition shortly enough , but even with this scant selective information , it ’s fair to say that the company is serious about the technology . We ’re well delinquent for an overhaul to the direction we interact with computer , and the fact that Microsoft is aware of this — and doing something about it — is assure . Tentatively . [ CNET ]
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