Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams

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Just came back from vacation in Italy

Drove through Germany. Above each of the urinals in the autostrada rastst?tte is an LCD screen running music channels and commercials. They have a display for when you take a leak!

Where I live the taxis are being outfitted with LCD screens for the entertainment (and commercials, of course) for the passengers.

Never underestimate how deep a technology penetrates when it is commoditized.

These were visions more than concrete goals. Obviously not all of these visions will come through.

But the technology behind project Natal is so simple that it will start off from a much more modest place and grow from there, and who knows, if it hits there it may grow into encompassing entire rooms.

Outside the XBox I believe we will first see project Natal technology applied to notebooks/tablets. Instead of a single webcam simply fit 2 into the unit along with the infrared "grid emitter". Suddently touch may look awkfully old-fashioned. Now you don't need to grease the display - you can simple control objects by gestures in front of the display. With obvious extra interaction vectors because such gestures can be in 3D (like "squeeze and pick up" or "drop") instead of touch 2D. It also solves another touch painpoint: Your fingers obscure the screen at the exact time you need the most accurate feedback.

Posted by: honeymonster   Posted on: 07/31/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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