I do not do very many posts on future technology (I leave that up to Josh over at SolidSmack) but this new technology really caught my attention and made me start thinking. Microsoft is working on a new project called Project Natal that is using similar technology as the Nintendo Wii but expanding it.
What Project Natal offers is similar motion sensing as the Wii but without the remote. This senses your body movements instead on the remotes movements.
This got me thinking, how far away are we from seeing this introduced to CAD. How soon will we be able to walk around our models, while collaborating with people all over the world similar to playing games online on the XBOX or Playstation. CAD packages are already supporting touch interfaces so some of this can’t be that far off can it?
Let me know what you think of this and when you think we will start seeing this kind of stuff in our CAD packages.
To see Project Natal in action check out their videos on their YouTube page.
XBox Natal is scheduled to ship “Holiday 2010” and will supposedly work with all Xbox 360’s.
Jason, if I understand this correctly, if I’m at home working on a project and scratch myself will the motion sensitive software be smart enough to interpret that I really wanted to create a ruled surface.
Steve