Microsoft: Natal is the “largest leap of TV experience” since TV remote control
Just like the remote control, but bigger. Marc Whitten, General Manager of XBL, characterizes the advent of Project Natal as the next biggest thing that happened to entertainment, “since the remote control.”
Just like the remote control, but bigger. Marc Whitten, Microsoft‘s General Manager of XBL, characterizes the advent of Project Natal as the next biggest thing that happened to entertainment, “since the remote control.”
Said Whitten,
I don’t believe we are currently in the golden age of the television or the golden age of the game console or the golden age of the Internet; frankly, five years from now I don’t know that you’ll be able to tell the difference between those worlds.
“Too hard” is also what he calls the remote control, which is why Natal is the next “IT” thing in this age where impatience is key, and everyone tends to prefer the automatic over the manual. Not only does Whitten foresee the Natal as the anti-thesis to the remote control, he also believes that there will be a point in the near future where Natal will be able to recognize people in the room by appearance and by voice.
“With the flick of my wrist I can change a channel. With the power of my voice I can start a movie.” And that is the future, according to Natal.
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Via EDGE