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Microsoft shows off a futuristic display
BIG R&D SPENDER Microsoft thinks it has a winning display technology with a project in its applied science labs.
The Vole has already developed its tabletop Surface display and obviously wants to develop smart displays further.
"In the future, display technology will move towards being an interactive window on the digital world, where the display will know who and where the user is, present content that is context aware, and allow natural interactions with the display surface."
Microsoft has shown off a prototype it calls Wedge, which uses imaging light guide technology that enables cameras and light sources to be multiplexed in a display. It also supports simultaneous capture of gestures on or above the surface. In other words, it's capable of not just flat surface gesture control but full-on Minority Report 3D gesture navigation and interaction.
Microsoft has applied the techniques to OLED technology and, using similar principles, thinks it will be able to deliver a multiple perspective 3D view from one LCD flat panel. After a few years of further development, that is. µ
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The above people are Apple users. God help anyone who developes something which Apple doesnt think of.
Yes Microsoft has failed on things but who hasnt? And yes proberly more things but they are immensely bigger than everyone else and have been going for a long time so its right they have.
Also you cannot deny this may be the progression of Kinect. Having it built into screens and remove the need of remotes?
"...developed its tabletop Surface display.."
Umm didn't this flop? I've not heard anything about it for ages
Errr, then there's Bob
And, umm, Microsoft Passport.
Oh yes, and Kin
Let's face it Seattle, you might need to open a new Job Centre sometime soon
"...and then they will cancel the product and fire the people who developed it."
I believe Microsoft follows a revised Peter Principle in that they continually promote individuals who have already risen to their level of incompetence. So, if the product fails, like Kin, they will promote, not fire, all the managers responsible while blaming the poor design team. I think I read somewhere that M$ is in the process of transferring the same Kin management team to the Windows Phone 7 project. That will certainly guarantee another product disaster. Kind of makes you wonder how many of these morons were on the original Windows Me & Me II (Vista) development teams.
The real problem is the completely incompetent leadership of M$ by that cartoonish buffoon, aka Steve Ballmer. Quickly, who does he remind you of? To me, he is a carbon copy of the goofy Frankenstein character played so perfectly by Peter Boyle in the hilarious Mel Brooks spoof, Young Frankenstein, way back in 1974.
And what would be the INQ quote in the header above this article? "The dross always floats to the top in IT companies - A tall Scandinavian" Oh, the irony!
This "Microsoft Wedgy" will probably be another rousing success like its Kin line of phones. It does have a name that sticks with you (those guys in the marketing division really know how to give things a lift).
At least a hundred people will buy one when it comes out, and then they will cancel the product and fire the people who developed it. They are on a roll, I tell you.