After watching Microsoft’s Project Natal promotional video I began to think of possible concerns that might arise while playing games or movies. The potential of this is monumental and is a great leap forward in the future of gaming technological advancements. But when seeing this it almost screams first person shooter all over the place. But how could this sensor see small hand gestures such as pulling a trigger on an imaginary gun. It doesn’t appear feasible unless there is some hardware component that works in addition to the camera. Or quite possible holding your existing controller and using it as a gun while the sensor picks up on your movements. This seems like a step backwards, when the idea is to not use a controller at all. Maybe they might go the wii route and come out with FPS peripherals that work in conjunction with FPS games and project natal camera.
My next concern comes while watching the promo video where it depicts a couple watching movies and navigating through menus with their hands and also voice controlling the playback of the movie by saying “Play Movie”. I really do hope they sorted this out but how does it know when I am talking to the device or if I am talking to a person in the room? It seems like a big whoops if they didn’t work on that part. Unless it works similarly to how computer interaction is done in star trek. A geeky example from star trek is when someone wishes to locate someone else on the ship they simply give a touch the emblem on their uniform to initiate a response to the computer and they state “Computer” followed by command “Locate Captain”. This implementation would avoid massive confusion than if I were to casually ask a friend could you locate captain… and the computer would jump in and try to answer me.