Ambitious Input!

So I just saw the video from Microsoft and 3DV for Project Natal and it is mighty impressive as a future input for a xbox 360. As ambitious as it is, if Microsoft could remove the need for a remote I can see it surpassing the Wii as the most friendly gaming system (friends as in RL not interweb friends).

One of the things I suspect will limit this system is the natural latency of capturing video input without some sort of glyph or consistant input.

And I do forsee some thrown out shoulders or broken coffee tables.

Of Interest, when 3DV does complete this project for the xbox 360 series, I would hope that Micosoft would then go ahead and make input for computers. This similar to the last few seconds of the video would be great for HTPC--Being able to swipe your hand like in Minority Report to flip through pictures or video would be sweet.

Currently the closest thing to this is Gyration Media Remotes, a Wii-like remote, and rightly so, as the remote's technology is the same in the Wii remote.

The penultimate hardware prior to this Project Natal aired previously on TED: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense