Microsoft Gaming Innovation

youcancallmeal

Pretty amazing stuff(If its real;) )!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=103132826641193167&q=microsoft

snappieT

THAT IS F*UCKING SICK.

I would like four, please.

kdouglas

very sweet, where do i sign?

Basq

Anyone get what the aim of that game was?!

Meh.. just a bunch of bells and whistles if you ask me (which you didn't)!

Goodshape

Not sure about modern day games in perticular, but the concept in general looks v. interesting!

youcancallmeal

its got potential, imagine that kind of sytem but in 3d. It would be like something out of minority report.

Endurance Man

This type of thing is already in use i think. Have you seen that keyboard that actaully just projects onto your desk?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2326077.stm

There you are. Basically the same concept isnt it?

Pacifico

Yeah except this isnt a keyboard

SolarNexus

until its 3D holograms with physical mass (IE. you can touch n' feel it) its nothing more than a novelty or visual aid for things like advertising.

WizZard

SolarNexus wrote:

until its 3D holograms with physical mass (IE. you can touch n' feel it)

Haha, I can imagine what you want...


*I'll take two..

K.O.Kiki

Arr!! Here be pr0n!!

Seriously though, is there a reason all new systems have to start with PONG??

the_syco

No lad, there's no use at all for that. Look at that useless invention Xerox made. What did they call it then? The mouse? No real use for it back then was it? [/sarc]

philologos

deadly stuff lads nice find

bounty

an expensive pong

so the light sensors, see the object and create an image, which interacts with a bouncing ball nothing special, and unapplicable to any games


when will holodecks be invented?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yeah Microsoft have been sitting on holodeck technology for years... hurry up and release it already, we don't care about your slidey-table pingpong nonsense.
I want to mud-wrestle with Seven-of-Nine... Captain Janeway is just watching.

Kazujo

Could have interesting prospects for offices eg arranging all of the data you want around your physical dekstop, by the looks of it a plastic tablet or even a piece of paper waith some defining marking could be used to represent different application windows.

Could you imagine using something like photoshop over a 40" working surface, ok there may be some issues with the image qaulity and the pointer accuracy but still.

This could be very interesting indeed, if nothing else it's a whole new way to play giant solitaire

scojones

Pretty cool.

Dooom

Kazujo wrote:

if nothing else it's a whole new way to play giant solitaire

Sign me up for 17! Kicking ass at that game at the moment. Managed to fix it after I somehow broke it. Didn't think it could actually be broken, but hey: If it's working properly, see how it can be broken!


/Edit: Just watched the video...ye can see teh strings ffs!

Basq

Just saw that Virtual Keyboard linked to earlier is on available on Komplett

SolarNexus

who would pay €150+ for a laser-keyboard? personally, I like the fact that there is a tactile feel to keyboards, I dont like the idea of typing on a consistantly flat surface; I'm sure it'd hurt after a while

stevenmu

They've (MS) had that kind of stuff for a while, they have some house-of-the-future thingy somewhere (redmund I suppose) with it all over the place. Seems pretty cool, you could pick stuff out of the fridge and put it on the counter, the counter would light up and let you pick out potential recipes, give you instructions etc. there was also one built into a wall in the hall, so you could walk in, control the house from it (lights, heat, a/c etc), check messages (email, phone, video messages etc). Nothing really revolutionary as such, but all cool in a gimmicky kinda way.