The new e-revolution of e-communications is about to come in our e-world. The actual next e-big thing is to be found in the field of video games.... But before I begin to tell you about my huuuuge discovery, I would like to say a few words for those who do not respond to the name of "geek" : DON'T BE AFRAID.
In several years, people will realize that their entire life changed thanks to one little silly games console (which looked like that) :
If you suffer from geekphobia, if you don't believe in the existance of the internet and if you're as ignorant as your granny in terms of hardware, this sentence has been elaborated JUST for you:
According to the Microsoft god, Kinect is nothing but "a controller-free gaming and entertainment experience". In other words, basically, to put it in a nutshell, the Kinect technology will enable users to control and interact with your Xbox 360/games console/PC/Macbook Pro/Toaster/ WITHOUT THE NEED TO TOUCH A GAME CONTROLLER THROUGH A NATURAL USER INTERFACE USING GESTURES, SPOKEN COMMANDS OR PRESENTED OBJECTS AND IMAGES.
I perfectly know that some evil geeky spirits will tell me that I'm so two thousand and late... but I do accept criticism only when it is narrow minded (it generally makes you feel smarter). What those e-geniuses seem to have forgotten is that in order to survive, a technology needs to spread and invade every aspects of private lifes!!!
What is brilliant about the Kinect system comes from the fact that it tends to make technology as simple as Abc. The next communicational revolution is linked to what a consumption society like ours looks for, that is to say, creating new strong habbits. In that case, Kinect is about to revolutionize our approach to deal with machines. Before Kinect you had to make do with the technical obstacles. I mean that you had to learn how to use a technology in order to master it entirely. Now with Kinect, technology is equal to human naturality. The machine is human so you can "naturally" control the machine.
Kinect has more than just a future in the field of video games. The Kinect technology could be transposed to the world of business or even of arts! For instance, just imagine what kind of impression you could make on clients in a business meeting if you could replace your sad power point presentation with a kinect "one man show"!
In the same way, you could also imagine how bad Kinect could rock the world and the work of an architect! (Even though I must admit that architecture is facing a conceptual crisis. If you don't know what I mean just have a look at that:
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