MSI, the international gaming hardware manufacturer, has announced its intentions to integrate Alexa, the popular intelligent voice service from Amazon, into part of its gaming and consumer PC lineup in 2018. The announcement was made at COMPUTEX 2018 where MSI has been demonstrating some of its conceptual Alexa-enabled MSI PC products.
As of now, further details about this implementation are not available. But regardless of how this actually turns out to be in consumer products, deeper integration of smart assistants in the PC ecosystem, especially in the gaming ecosystem, can open entirely new possibilities for game developers. On the other hand, as we have seen in recent times, if such integrations are not carried out by following appropriate security protocols, it will open up new avenues for violation of customer privacy.