Bill Gates Says Project Natal Also Intended for PC Use
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Microsoft impressed a lot of gamers with the potential that Project Natal showed on the Xbox 360 at E3, but their plans for the motion-sensing camera extend far beyond the console. Speaking to CNET, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates explained Natal will be able to connect to PCs as well, and he sees a world where it will even become a mainstay in offices around the world.
When talking about new technologies Microsoft is brewing, 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 explained that although it was premiered as an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s meant “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.”
While ultimately the point of Natal on the 360 is to control games with your whole body, Microsoft also showed how it’ll allow users to browse menus using only hand gestures. It’s these kind of uses, presumably, that Gates says could extend to all kinds of media consumption. “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,” Gates said.
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