A tech company based in Israel has revealed that it’s providing the technology behind Microsoft Project Natal. The company is Prime Sense, out of Tel Aviv, who are primarily into chip design. Prime Sense will provide the 3d sensor technology for Natal.
Prime Sense head honcho Inon Beracha said:
“We are selling the chip for each Natal system, and we also license the reference design for the whole 3D sensor”
Project Natal Camera
What’s less certain are the details of the deal between Microsoft and Prime Sense but MS have likely taken the rights for the 3D tech for games for some time into the future. This gives the Xbox 360 a clear technological advantage over it’s rivals the Wii and Sony’s upcoming Move for the Playstation 3.
But rights are exclusive only for games, and will not cover non-related applications such as televisions, PC’s and GPS systems. Beracha revealed that his company is involved in joint ventures with high-end manufacturers in developing products that will utilize it’s 3d technology. This could be really cool, imagine changing TV channels by moving your arms or scrolling through PC menus by flicking your fingers?
Beracha added:
“Very few people like remotes. They lose them, the batteries die — that could be a dying market,” he said.
Prime sense gave a sneak preview of their 3d magic to invited guest in January at CES in Vegas. Users were impressed with some of the ‘Minority Report’ style demo’s.
Project Natal Brings Minority Report to Your Home 
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Microsoft also re-iterated their previous comments about the release date for Natal ‘It will be released holiday 2010’, WTF does that mean?
Anyways we should see natal this year and some interesting new remote-less technology next year, all good.
What do you think? Will motion control take over the home entertainment world?
Ste
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Tom cruise is crazier than a bag of hammers, could be good to use the natal if you have like a 60″ screen or something.
In Tom Cruise’s puny future, you have to use gloves to play. lol That stuff can be done with Natal and OLED… and it will damn sure look better than his crappy setup. That movie was bunk.