Microsoft’s Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/21/microsofts-augmented-reality-3d-holodesk-lets-you-play-with-balls-in-real-time/

by nickfrost • 15 years ago

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dkersten2• 15 years ago

Something similar from a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw

Unless I missed it, the microsoft HoloDesk does not provide tactile feedback like the one in the outube video. Still cool though.

mc32• 15 years ago

The seamless transfer of sphere from sheet of paper to cup was pretty cool.

thefool• 15 years ago

How would one do that?

Lasers? Focused blasts of air?

dkersten2• 15 years ago

Its explained in one of the video (at 1:00). Basically they use a focused ultrasonic beam to create tactile feedback.

jarin• 15 years ago

Kind of makes you wonder why "Microsoft Research" isn't just "Microsoft".

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

Because "Microsoft Research" doesn't have to consider silly things like profit (or even marketability), that's for big MS to figure out.

darrenkopp• 15 years ago

Neither does Bing (at least so far).

tomjen3• 15 years ago

You become the first company to launch a phone that can be interacted with in 3D, you become very, very profitable.

cachemoney• 15 years ago

Who writes these titles?

MrVitaliy• 15 years ago

Same thought. Wonder if those titles are generated simply for a more descriptive url. In that case, I think writers are missing their target audience - humans.

Also this particular title strikingly resembles typical MS's writing signature such as "Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose"

See http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/20/8413642-buy...

You would certainly get a low mark at an elementary writting class for a paper title like that.

pshapiro• 15 years ago

At last.

sethbannon• 15 years ago

It's funny to think of how primitive this will seem in a decade's time -- like the first TVs or the first cell phones.

DharmaSoldat• 15 years ago

Love the title. Though it made me think the video would be something different.

"Ghost in the Shell"-style tech is the way of the future.

Anyone else excited about the yet unreleased Sony HMD?

rick888• 15 years ago

..and here I thought I could already do that.

Microsoft’s Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time

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