Vision, Bill Gates said in a recent chat with Kotaku and others, is one of the next big things in gaming and Live is Microsoft's current big push.

"Vision is huge, I mean it's just absolutely gigantic it terms of knowing who's there are they paying attention...," he said.

"I didn't see (Eye of Judgement at E3), but the Eye Toy is a good example of how even in gaming the idea of "OK I'm swinging a bat or dancing..." will become a big deal in gaming."

Gates said that just like voice is becoming an important and necessary part of online gaming now, soon video imaging will as well.

"...and I don't mean just the video conferencing,... I mean the actual software analysis," he said. "There is a lot of work between the Xbox team and Microsoft research on that."

While vision might be the future, it seems that making things "Live" is very much the present.

"That's a very big deal," he said. "If you go into Microsoft and say what's the thing that when Ballmer shows up, Bill shows up, Ray shows up they just try to hammer into your head. It's Live, Live, Live," he said. "We have to get Windows more Live enabled, office more Live enabled."

"We have to get some of the online properties more integrated. We got to connect the phone, the Xbox, the PC, so Live is sort of this big focus.... making sure we stun people with the Live platform."

Brian Crecente

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