Intel has promised that the immediate future ultrabooks will learn to understand gestures and voice commands. Of course, to interact with the user by means of gestures they will need a webcam and special software.
Stereoscopic camera capable to assess the depth of space will appear in Ultrabooks in the second half of next year. Already this year, the first external stereoscopic camera will get most impatient users - the appropriate product has been developed by Intel in collaboration with Logitech. Once these cameras are comfortable in the notebook segment, they will move on - in tablets and smartphones.
What are the prospects before stereoscopic cameras? In addition to the obvious applications to manage the games characters, as this is done with Kinect, these cameras will help to recognize objects and assess reading skills. Feature recognition of objects is useful when ordering the same covers for mobile phones - will be enough to show the available computer case or the phone, he recognizes the pattern in the image, and offer print the new cover on the 3D-printer, or send a request to the appropriate workshop.