Asian research boss says that resources are already being put into the development of motion tech successor

Microsoft positions for Natal 2 development

Microsoft’s Natal is still a good seven or eight months away from launch, but a research director for the platform holder has already confirmed that work has begun on the successor to the technology.

“When we invent something first like Natal, while we have a researcher working with the product group for the first version we already have a researcher thinking about the second version down the road,” Microsoft’s Research Asia department director Hsiao-Wuen Hon told The Sydney Morning Herald, as spotted by Spong.

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