Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision Montage

How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.

As you watch this video montage from 2019, look for examples of how current prototypes may evolve in the years ahead.

While its hard to predict exactly how technology will unfold, we are constantly researching, looking forward, and gathering insights to imagine how technology investments today can improve peoples way of life in the future.

From: hewvideo

Project Natal: Meet Milo

Here’s another video about Project Natal. Personally I’m a bit sceptical about this kind of interaction will be made available to public in the near future.

The technology exists for a long time… motion sensing (Wiimote), infrared to measure distance (small machines used in constructions), camera (image processing like eye toy and AR), etc. I think the biggest challenge is in the software because combining all those technologies and make them working together requires a lot of processing capabilities.

Truth or fiction? You decide!

Communication Evolution

Yahoo celebrates 25 years of online communication.

I remember that I used the BBS for my first online message.

BTW do you remember Microsoft Comic Chat? It was quite funny at that time.