Bill Gates was on Sunday's Meet the Press yesterday to discuss he and his wife's foundation. The show's host, David Gregory, asked Gates about his thoughts on the future of computing and where things might be heading. What he said sounds very similar to what the Xbox 360's Project Natal is hoping to achieve -- using cameras, sensors, and a microphone to interact with a system.
Gates: We'll also have computers we can talk to, computers that can see what we're doing. So whether it's making a gesture in a business meeting to zoom in on a chart or try and look at what a house would be like before it's built, this idea of the computer seeing 3D displays and voice interaction leads you to where the keyboard and the mouse, which is how we think of the computer today, is not the only way we interact. It's a far more immersive, rich environment.
Gregory: We can talk to each other?
Gates: Absolutely. You'll be able to put onto the wall of your office a video conference with whoever you'd like and have the computer listen to what's going on there and create a transcript and make it searchable. And so, natural interface, I think is the thing that people underestimate right now.
[via Kotaku]
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