I know I’m late blogging about this, but I’ve been busy looking at Wave and trying to find out as much as I can about Natal. The end result on both is that there is surprisingly little, but the promises are considerable. I’ve signed up for my Wave account and I’m seeing that some people on Twitter and in the blogosphere have played with it and are liking it quite a bit. If you can put the ideas of Natal together with the data management of Wave, you are really getting close to the Minority Report interface for all manner of content. If you haven’t seen the promo video, take a look at this – and appreciate the irony of a MS demo being delivered by Google:
The only issue that I can see right now is getting people used to pantomime to control. I can’t imagine MS not wanting to get into the prop market as well and selling wheels and swords and all manner of other props. It’s going to be interesting to see the stories of the first person to go through their TV.
This idea has real credibility in my mind with the stuff that Molyneux has done with Milo:
This technology is going to really change games, and hopefully it will enter other applications quickly.
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