Microsoft’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s still to be unveiled motion-based user interface. Some interesting stuff happening here, so new and some not so new. The Milo techn certainly seems interesting, but I remain skeptical until I can actually experience it. These technologies always look great when demoed, but sometimes fall short in real [...]
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Matt Cowan from Reuters gets an interesting tour of Microsoft’s European technology lab in Cambridge. Some really interesting stuff highlighted here…
|Although Microsoft’s Photosynth has been around for a number of years now, what they have done for the inauguration is truly spectacular. I first saw Photosynth demoed at TED by Blaise Aguera y Arcas back in March of 2007 and was blown away by Microsoft’s photo stitching tool. Leveraging the excitement and energy of the [...]
|I just finished watching the Steve Ballmer keynote speech at Gartners ITxpo and I I have to give the two analysts that interviewed him credit. With such a large, confident and conflict comfortable personality like Steve Ballmer, many people would throw soft balls. In contrast, David Mitchell Smith and specifically Neil MacDonald, asked hard questions [...]
|I first saw Photosynth demoed by Blaise Aguera y Arcas at TED back in November of 2007 (video available below). Even a year ago, the application was almost beyond belief.
Well, it looks as though Microsoft has finally made it available for mass consumption. Developed out of the Microsoft Live Labs, a group of brilliant people in [...]
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