Project Natal For Office PCs, Too?
- Scribbled on July 15th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, PC, WTF
In an interview with C|Net, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates revealed that there are plans for Project Natal for PCs as well, albeit in a corporate setting.
“I’d say a cool example of that, that you’ll see is kind of stunning, in a little over a year, is this (depth-sensing) camera thing… Not just for games, but for media consumption as a whole… If they connect it up to Windows PCs for interacting in terms of meetings, and collaboration, and communication, you put the camera in now it’s a cool thing, and it’s just an example where Microsoft research did the original stuff to show, with the depth information, something great could be done.
Then 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.”…
“Well, 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. 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?”
Can you imagine using Natal at your latest board meeting? Does that mean Milo would take the minutes? “Last week, we discussed the merger with TelCo – but first, you all look so sad. Did you draw the picture of an elephant I asked for?”
(Thanks, Firing Squad.)
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