In a speech earlier this month Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, said: “Pay attention to the stuff we’re announcing in the next month on Xbox”. So we have it from the horses mouth that there will be a very major announcement from Microsoft for E3. And 90% it has to be a gesture interface.
So this patent is quite interesting.
“the device is a handheld electronic device.
the device is an input or output device or peripheral.
the device is a controller device.
the settings are associated with a physical configuration of the device.
the settings are associated with a data set employed by the device.”
There is enough in their patent for it to cover their gesture interface. There is a whole pile of other stuff too on things like pheromones. This could be to camouflage their commercial intentions, or it could be so as to cast the widest net.
