• Wearable Multitouch Projector

    This project is a depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond a shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or the environment. Foremost, on such surfaces—with...
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  • *** NEW *** Improved Audio - Flipbook Maker built with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer

    Build this yourself with http://netmf.com/gadgeteer/ ! This is an example of the kind of gadgets you can quickly and easily build with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer, even if you have no hardware experience. The flipbook maker is a miniature stop
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  • kinectfusion

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  • Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch

    Modern touch devices allow one to interact with virtual objects. However, there is a substantial delay between when a finger moves and the display responds. Microsoft researchers, Albert Ng and Paul Dietz, have built a laboratory test system that ...
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  • Microsoft Surface: Inside the Company’s Next Big Thing (Video)

    You don't have permission to edit metadata of this video. Edit media Dimensions x Small Medium Large Custom Subject (required) Brief Description…

  • Microsoft trials Digits finger-sensing bracelet

    Microsoft Research has been showing off Digits, an attempt to build a sensor bracelet that can track the movement of fingers, replacing the need for a physical mouse or finger-covering gloves. The Digits system uses a bank of infrared (IR) LEDs to reflect…

  • Google Is Now The World’s Second Largest Tech Company

    Everybody knows by now that Apple is the world’s largest tech company . As far as market value goes, it can’t be beat. Microsoft was at a distant second, but it has finally been usurped by Apple’s greatest nemesis – Google. Bloomberg reports that Google…

  • Microsoft squares off with new logo

    Microsoft has a brand-new logo to go with all the brand-spankin' new products it's got coming this fall. The new design uses the long-standing Windows logo as its starting point, but gone are the wavy edges of that older look. The graphic element of the…

  • Are the Next-Gen Consoles Coming Too Late?

    Microsoft and Sony really want you to wait a while before playing their next generation systems. They want you to sit tight. Before launching anything new, they want to hold off until the last possible moment. They want to skip out of the tottering, crumbling…

  • Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete

    Microsoft has guts. It's what you get when you're the underdog; either that or you curl into a RIM and die. Microsoft is the underdog because no matter how many hundreds of millions of people use its software, the cool and the future belong to Apple …

  • Microsoft MirageTable uses Kinect to create interactive 3D workspaces

    26 in Share Researchers at Microsoft have combined a Kinect and a 3D projector to spice up videoconferencing with a bit of augmented reality. They're calling their project the MirageTable: its aim is to improve collaboration by creating a shared, interactive…

  • Amazon Kindle: It’s not Apple, but RIM that's in the Frying Pan

    By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media The web is awash with reviews of the Kindle Fire, most positive, and comparisons to the iPad are just as plentiful. The question that keeps coming up, however, is whether the Fire is a game changer in…

  • Can we survive the loss of Steve Jobs?

    By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media In the outpouring of grief over the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs has been an underlying meme of concern regarding not just the future of Apple, but the potential for disaster in the semiconductor…

  • HoloDesk: Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display

    HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror...
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  • Interactive Kinect sandbox

    Na konferenci MS Fest jste si mohli vyzkoušet interaktivní Kinect pískoviště. Další informace o tomto projektu najdete na http://smartmania.cz Kinect se používá pro měření hloubky - hodnoty odesílá do PC, který je zpracuje a následně přes projekto...
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  • Playing Pong using just your eyes

    Millions of people suffering from Multiple Scleorosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries or amputees could soon interact with their computers and surroundings using just their eyes thanks to a new device that costs just £43. Co...
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  • MirageTable: Freehand Interaction on a Projected Augmented Reality Tabletop

    In MirageTable, a 3-D stereoscopic projector projects content directly on top of the curved screen. The information is captured by the Kinect camera, which also tracks the user's gaze. This enables presentation of correct perspective use to a
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  • 3Gear Systems releases SDK utilizing Microsoft's Kinect for precise finger recognition

    Concept setup (via 3Gear Systems) 3Gear Systems is a company based out of San Francisco currently only made up of three people. These three people have all earned their Ph.D. from different schools, however their shared vision of enhancing computer graphics…

  • Are gesture-sensing interfaces set to replace your mouse and keyboard? MS Digit and Leap Motion say yes

    Sayre Glove, from 1977. An early gesture sensor device (via Electronic Visualization Laboratory ) Standard PC user interfaces (as we know them today) such as the keyboard and mouse have been around since the 60’s and have served us well. Could advancements…

  • Microsoft's live speech translator, your voice in other languages

    Microsoft tanslation demonstration, screen cap. (via Microsoft) Computer user interfaces have done exceptionally well using typed words and haptic gestures to interact, but the tech had lagged behind when it comes to voice interaction. In 1979, hidden…

  • Microsoft announces Kinect Fusion technology will be available in upcoming SDK

    Created within the Microsoft research labs in Cambridge, the Kinect Fusion technology is a program that constantly streams data from the real world using the Kinect sensor, to create an accurate 3D model of the environment and objects within it. After…

  • Code.org and a Myriad of Celebrities Hope to Inspire the World to Learn How to Code

    Code.org logo (via Code.org ) Code is the way of the future. The proof is just about everywhere you look - software is invading our everyday lives in the forms of “smart” devices with near limitless potential. Yet, only one in ten schools nationwide offers…

  • Turn any room into a video game world, Microsoft demos Illumiroom

    IllumiRoom concept. Extending the game beyond the screen portal. Adding ambience to peripheral vision. (via Microsoft demo video) The next Xbox will probably make you feel 360 degrees of immersion, filling a 180-degree field of vision. Confirmation that…

  • Kinect-powered shoulder-mounted mobile projector

    (Left) Attjector concept (Right) Current working system housed in a backpack (via Sven Kratz, M. Rohs, F. Reitberger, J. Moldenhauer, University of Munich ) Small mobile projection systems have shown up lately to help users easily hold a presentation…

  • CES 2013 E Fun set to release the Apen Touch8 that gives old monitors a new lease on life

    Apen for Windows 8 prototype (via CES2013LasVegas) Many people were reluctant to get Windows 8 for their desktop OS. "A tablet OS for a desktop, no way," was the cry I heard and read about. I will admit, I didn't get the inexpensive upgrade for the same…