Für Steve Ballmer ist Project Natal das aufregendste Produkt, das Microsoft in diesem Jahr auf den Markt bringt. Dabei sieht er für die Technologie noch weitere Einsatzgebiete abseits von Videospielen.

"Perhaps for me the most exciting product we'll bring to market this year, and it really fits in this context, actually comes out of our videogaming group. You might say, why would I talk to a group of CEOs about videogames? Because the technology actually is very general purpose, and we'll see come into the rest of our lives pretty soon", so der Microsoft-CEO, der das Thema laut ZDNet  im Gespräch mit anderen führenden Angestellten in Bogota ansprach und das System sogar präsentierte.

"It's a technology that we call Natal. It's a little camera and microphone that sits on top of your TV set. And if you want to control the TV, you don't go get some remote control or big fat gaming thing. If you want to look through TV channels, you just gesture, and the computer recognizes your voice, it recognizes your gestures. You want to see the next sports program, you go like this, it will cycle you through. You want to play a game and you need to jump, you jump. I'm not going to jump too hard; a little bit too high altitude here in Bogota for that, at least for me. But it recognizes you, it knows your voice, who you are, your gestures, what you're doing."

Project Natal wird auf der E3 vermutlich im Detail präsentiert und soll im Herbst auf den Markt kommen.