Microsoft making it real. Microsoft's floating display.

Many of us are waiting for something new. Holograms. 3D input. Magic. The day will come when something fresh comes along and perhaps it's Microsoft who will bring it to us. Please MS, get this right and put it in a tablet and in a box and break up this monotony of look-alike, act-alike gadgets. Please Microsoft, you're my only hope:

From Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group:

Flexible follower: holograms?

KEY MOBILE TREND: holograms, form factors, displays.
EVENT HORIZON: ten years.

And after flexible? I'm looking forward to hologram displays:

Cool vision.

HP holograms displays.

MIT Tech Review Story >>


KEY MOBILE TRENDS: holograms, displays, components

The long, long-term future of displays is holograms. Hologram move theaters, hologram televisions, hologram computers, even hologram mobiles.

Just like multi-touch input, some smartphone vendor will come along some day and shift the market in a new direction. This is a vision.

Here is some hologram display research from HP:

The new temporary help? Avatars at airports.

via KURZWEIL's BLOG >>


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3YBf36twk

Microsoft’s HoloDesk. Sometimes Microsoft can be so transparent.

via GIZMAG >>

Microsoft Research pages >>

Here’s a fun research project from Microsoft. It’s “HoloDesk,” which uses a clear display, a projector, and a Kinect to allow users to interact with virtual 3D objects. While this doesn't seem like a very mobile implementation, you never know how these things develop. Remember how multi-touch seemed out of touch?


http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=154571