How the Microsoft Xbox Project Natal Will Change the Digital Living Room
What Microsoft’s Project Natal will do is best summed up by Director Steven Spielberg:
"I’ve been asking the crucial question: how can interactive entertainment become as approachable as other forms of entertainment? The vast majority of people are just too intimidated to pick up a video game controller…Despite the size of (the video game) industry, still 60 percent of households do not own a video game console…The only way to bring interactive entertainment to everybody is to make it invisible."
The implications of Project Natal go beyond entertainment. TV manufacturers are already looking at building motion sensing and voice detection technology into TVs. This means you can not only control your TV with voice and motion, but interact with all types of content – training programs, commercials, remote physical therapy and more.
For a quick look at how this works, watch this demo video.
