Regarding Bill Gates' Comments Connecting Natal to Windows
Not that those of us who sit for hours in front of our PCs every day, tapping out a living via the likes of Excel, Word, etc. are necessarily waiting with baited breath to hear details on what Bill Gates meant in recent days regarding how Project Natal might relate to PCs use, but it certainly is an interesting topic. For any who are not up on Natal, it is the code name for the Xbox 360's upcoming gesture and motion based control functionality. The technology is based around a peripheral, somewhat reminiscent of the PlayStation Eye, and perhaps could be seen as an answer to the Wii Remote as well. Yet Natal, at least on the surface seems to take things to the next level, which may be where Gates is going with this. The whole idea behind motion control is really a visual, so for a quick overview of Natal check out the video directly below:
So, obviously this, if successful, will be great for gaming, but what would the connection be to PC use? According to Bill Gates:
"...a cool example of that, that you'll see... in a little over a year, is this (depth) camera thing." He continued on to say that it would have uses for "media consumption as a whole," as well as "meetings, and collaboration, and communication." Later adding with regards to the various Microsoft teams involved that "Both the Xbox guys and the Windows guys latched onto that and now even since they latched onto it the idea of how it can be used in the office is getting much more concrete, and is pretty exciting."
So, again, what are we talking about here? To me it sounds like leverage of a component of a successful Microsoft technology, Xbox 360, to aid one that was far less well received; that being Surface. If this is accurate forget about a $5-10k that is out of touch in so many ways. How about a peripheral for $100 that turns your standard PC into a touch screen device, just without the physical contact. Hmmm? Returning to an earlier quip, as cool as this sounds I don't see too many spreadsheet laden office drones working on 14-17" screens giving up the mouse/hotkey method for this, but big screen media center document management and "Minority Report" on-screen magic? Sure why not. Forgot what that looked like? Microsoft's endeavors aside, it looks like that fiction is nearly reality. Take a look at a video below of Toshiba's Spatial Motion Interface as a reminder. Useful? Who knows, but with Gates talking about this sort of thing it may be more likely than not to be cluttering up your desk sometime soon.
--Tom Milnes
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