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 Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 00:34 Post subject: Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too |
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Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition to the Xbox with Project Natal. It also wants the technology in Windows, according to a very good source--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
In an interview with CNET News this week, Gates talked about a world in which depth-sensing cameras such as the one Microsoft is adding to the Xbox allow people to control their PCs, game devices, and televisions. (See a video from the E3 conference below.)
Speaking about all of the technology Microsoft has cooking in its labs, Gates said: "I'd say a cool example of that, that you'll see... in a little over a year, is this (depth) camera thing." Gates said it was not just for games, "but for media consumption as a whole, and even if they connect it up to Windows PCs for interacting in terms of meetings, and collaboration, and communication."
Gates said it is an example where the project started in Microsoft research but is now being commercialized by both the Xbox and Windows units. "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."
Using your body to control devices makes a lot of sense, Gates said. "I think the value is as great for if you're in the home, as you want to manage your movies, music, home system type stuff, it's very cool there," he said. "And I think there's incredible value as we use that in the office connected to a Windows PC. So Microsoft research and the product groups have a lot going on there, because you can use the cost reduction that will take place over the years to say, why shouldn't that be in most office environments."
Gates actually dropped the first hint of Natal during his joint appearance with Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital conference in 2007
"Imagine a game machine where you're just going to pick up the bat and swing it, or the tennis racket and swing it," Gates said.
Moderators Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher mocked Gates, saying such a technology already exists and it's called the Wii. But Gates disagreed. "No, that's not it. You can't pick up your tennis racket."
He later added, "You can't sit there with your friends and do those natural things," he said. "That's a 3D positional device. This is video recognition. This is a camera seeing what's going on."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10286309-56.html
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 01:23 Post subject: |
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Basic idea, is. Instead of walking up to ur gun in the game and pressing E say to grab it, you will reach into the space and pick it up with hand motion gesture like grabbing something for real in your home. (nice idea, not sure how practical really but if it works flawless then so be it)
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tnisa8
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 01:37 Post subject: |
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I want to see PORN with this thing
SINGLE-CELLED ASEXUALLY REPRODUCTIVE ORGANISMS RULE.
I agree. It's no big deal. Animal, mineral or vegetable; I'll DO anything TO anything.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 02:00 Post subject: |
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tnisa8 - enlighten me on how porn would work with project natal? there's nothing there but thin air.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 02:26 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Using your body to control devices makes a lot of sense, Gates said. "I think the value is as great for if you're in the home, as you want to manage your movies, music, home system type stuff, it's very cool there," he said. "And I think there's incredible value as we use that in the office connected to a Windows PC. So Microsoft research and the product groups have a lot going on there, because you can use the cost reduction that will take place over the years to say, why shouldn't that be in most office environments." |
and that's a wheel that doesn't need reinventing. yes, gesticulating like in minority report looks fancy, but it's far from effective.
instead of wanking about spreading its newest toy to another system, MS should do a goddamn peripheral seller first - preferably one that isn't a clone of the wii sports/fitness stuff.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 15:03 Post subject: |
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no way i connect a microsoft camera+micro to a system that is running a microsoft os and is online 24/7.
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Jul 2009 20:57 Post subject: |
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I don't see myself waving around like a lunatic just to give a simple command.
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