Comments on: Windows Phone 7: Camera-based Gesture UI Ditched or not-yet Revealed?

By: My Microsoft Life » The Eagle Has Landed

My Microsoft Life » The Eagle Has Landed — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:17:03 +0000

[...] I was expecting Microsoft to include aspects of Project Natal in Windows Phone 7 such as voice recognition and control but this appears to have been left out, or not announced as blogged about on MSFTKitchen. [...]

By: Rico

Rico — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:24:24 +0000

I think that it is a Front-camera (like for video calls etc)
But it will be on the market over a couple of years (or earlier i hope)

you have to remember that they want to make profit. So why make a phone that is perfect when you can let people keep buying products that you can “improve” through time.

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By: tino

tino — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:40:45 +0000

@bernard: I agree that motion gestures may not come soon. But it really does look like a front facing camera. And it really does make sense if you think about the social focus of their concept: Windows Live Messenger!

I’m wondering why no one is asking what that “speech bubble” icon has to do on the Bing search box? Speech recognition, anyone?

And it’s also interesting that they are following a similar concept of grouping services into “hubs” in Windows Live too if the leaked infos and screens are true.

By: bernard

bernard — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:04:22 +0000

I call this a long-shot. It just wouldn’t fit very well with the rest of the OS, and their philosophy for this release. In any case they would have shown it today, as today’s announcements were about the user interface.

Microsoft already has a very compelling and competitive release as is. I would guess that motion gestures are probably in the OS’s future. With fierce competitors like Apple Computer and Google, you wouldn’t want Microsoft to show all its cards at once.

By: TheCyberKnight

TheCyberKnight — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:23:31 +0000

If you look very closely, it sure looks like a front facing camera. Light sensors do not need an opening like this. And the right-hand side image is only a graphical representation of a generic device. They used it as a container for the live screen capture that was shown during the conference.

This is for sure a camera. Now, will every phone carry one? I bet that this is going to be a vendor specific decision, like for keyboards.

By: Stephen Chapman

Stephen Chapman — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:05:14 +0000

Ah, yes. That’s a good point, too.

By: Rafael Rivera

Rafael Rivera — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:04:21 +0000

Good catch, Stephen. If not a camera, that may be a light sensor to adjust various aspects of the software when indoors or outdoors.