Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too
>> Sunday, December 13, 2009
Microsoft doesn't need to bring gesture recognition to the Xbox with Project Natal. It also wants the technology in Windows, according to a nice 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 four permit people to control their PCs, game devices, & 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 icy example of that, that you'll see... in a small over a year, is this (depth) camera thing." Gates said it was not for games, "but for media consumption as a whole, & even if they connect it up to Windows PCs for interacting in terms of meetings, & collaboration, & communication."
Gates said it is an example where the project started in Microsoft research but is now being commercialized by both the Xbox & Windows units. "Both the Xbox guys & the Windows guys latched onto that & now even since they latched onto it the idea of how it can be used in the office is getting much more concrete, & is exciting."
Gates actually dropped the first hint of Natal during his joint appearance with Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital conference in 2007
Using your body to control devices makes a lot of sense, Gates said. "I think the value is as great for if you are in the home, as you need to manage your movies, music, home system type stuff, it is icy there," they said. "And I think there is fabulous value as they use that in the office connected to a Windows PC. So Microsoft research & 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 should not that be in most office environments."
"Imagine a game machine where you are going to pick up the bat & swing it, or the tennis racket & swing it," Gates said.
Moderators Walt Mossberg & Kara Swisher mocked Gates, saying such a technology already exists & it is called the Wii. But Gates disagreed. "No, that is not it. You cannot pick up your tennis racket."
They later added, "You cannot sit there with your friends & do those natural things," they said. "That's a 3D positional tool. This is video recognition. This is a camera seeing what is going on."
In an interview with CNET News this week, Gates talked about a world in which depth-sensing cameras such as the four permit people to control their PCs, game devices, & 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 icy example of that, that you'll see... in a small over a year, is this (depth) camera thing." Gates said it was not for games, "but for media consumption as a whole, & even if they connect it up to Windows PCs for interacting in terms of meetings, & collaboration, & communication."
Gates said it is an example where the project started in Microsoft research but is now being commercialized by both the Xbox & Windows units. "Both the Xbox guys & the Windows guys latched onto that & now even since they latched onto it the idea of how it can be used in the office is getting much more concrete, & is exciting."
Gates actually dropped the first hint of Natal during his joint appearance with Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital conference in 2007
Using your body to control devices makes a lot of sense, Gates said. "I think the value is as great for if you are in the home, as you need to manage your movies, music, home system type stuff, it is icy there," they said. "And I think there is fabulous value as they use that in the office connected to a Windows PC. So Microsoft research & 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 should not that be in most office environments."
"Imagine a game machine where you are going to pick up the bat & swing it, or the tennis racket & swing it," Gates said.
Moderators Walt Mossberg & Kara Swisher mocked Gates, saying such a technology already exists & it is called the Wii. But Gates disagreed. "No, that is not it. You cannot pick up your tennis racket."
They later added, "You cannot sit there with your friends & do those natural things," they said. "That's a 3D positional tool. This is video recognition. This is a camera seeing what is going on."
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