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Touring The Microsoft Home

I can totally see how in the near future some of the stuff they were showcasing would be considered a necessity.
 
That watch thing is pretty awesome. Would be nice if it can relay more health information, then perhaps medics can use it to their advantage.
 
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EmptyPockets said:
That watch thing is pretty awesome. Would be nice if it can relay more health information, then perhaps medics can use it to their advantage.
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Takes the whole "I have fallen and can't get up" crowd to another level.
 
Pretty cool. This will all be obsolete as soon as we can beam images directly into our eyes with contact lenses n' such. We will not own any displays as everything will be some sort of augmented reality.
 
Pappy said:
Pretty cool. This will all be obsolete as soon as we can beam images directly into our eyes with contact lenses n' such. We will not own any displays as everything will be some sort of augmented reality.
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How will you interact with the display inside your eye?
 
i can just see it now, some idiot decides to run ie and next thing you know, you go some fraud av telling you that toaster.app is infected
 
Very slick. This stated to make me think as well that currently the industry is so focused on mobile tech while home tech has recieved little attention. I think this kind of stuff is going to be the next big thing and one reason why the PC still has a LOT of life left in it as this stuff will no doubt be powered by PCs though of course consoles will play into this was well.
 
Trackr said:
How will you interact with the display inside your eye?
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Simple:
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Since this has been going on for the past 17 years or so, you would think that Microsoft has a bunch of data concerning how right or wrong they have been. Wonder if any of that has been published? If they went 15 years into the future back when they first started in 1994, how correct were they in "predicting" what we would have in our homes in 2009? And whose home are the thinking this stuff is going into?? Bill Gates?? Certainly not the average Joe Six Pack any time soon. Also, much of it looks like a very elaborate "Kinect" demonstration.
 
Just made me think...if you set up enough Kinects throughout the home, couldn't it be a pretty frikkin' amazing home security system? Pair it up with some tazers built into your walls disguised as lights...lol. Screw calling the cops, I'm playing "taze the scumbag" all day at work via web browser! Wait wait, let him get up a little bit, $20 says you can't get him to fall into the toilet bowl!
 
Trackr said:
How will you interact with the display inside your eye?
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I've always wondered that. If the display is on your actual eye, wouldn't the entire thing move while your eye moves? Maybe they would need to build in the ability to keep the image stable while tracking the movements over your eye.

Still, one application I always thought would be neat would be navigation. Never mind a tiny GPS screen in your car, address numbers and business names would be floating above houses and your path would be painted on the road.
 
Insula Gilliganis said:
Since this has been going on for the past 17 years or so, you would think that Microsoft has a bunch of data concerning how right or wrong they have been. Wonder if any of that has been published? If they went 15 years into the future back when they first started in 1994, how correct were they in "predicting" what we would have in our homes in 2009? And whose home are the thinking this stuff is going into?? Bill Gates?? Certainly not the average Joe Six Pack any time soon. Also, much of it looks like a very elaborate "Kinect" demonstration.
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Kinect was not designed or intended to be a video game "controller", it just so happens that is the easiest avenue for Microsoft to actually get the technology out in the wild.
 
I have this revolutionary idea that Microsoft could use, it's called central heating. That way they don't need to wear jackets, vests, and scarfs indoors.
 
We toured the Microsoft house back in high school as a fun get away from our Cisco class. I still think of all that stuff, and that was 9-10 years ago. Was simply amazing then, and I'm still amazed and disappointed that I don't have any of it.
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obviouslytom said:
Microsoft should start releasing the software that does this
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Microsoft does some amazing stuff like this but seems to only flesh it out about 80% of the way and then never does anything really with it. Look as Windows Media Center / Extender / Windows Home Server. All great ideas that could be huge movement in the home entertainement market but they just need to do the finishing touches on the product and really get behind it marketing wise.

I personally believe that they do this intentionally. They are hoping that these ideas will be the seeds to something larger 1) as not to piss off their vendor partners who would want the chance to create products around this technology (i.e. HP and the HomeServer) and 2) to not get sued as a monopoly.

Its quite sad actually.
 
Having a 17 year old sister, I can tell you this, she wouldn't want her text messages and facebook updates posted all over her bedroom wall where everyone can see, heh.

I like the screen they were using in the main room, it looked see through, was that just a projector on it or was it an actual display? Cause I really dug that.
 
heatlesssun said:
Very slick. This stated to make me think as well that currently the industry is so focused on mobile tech while home tech has recieved little attention. I think this kind of stuff is going to be the next big thing and one reason why the PC still has a LOT of life left in it as this stuff will no doubt be powered by PCs though of course consoles will play into this was well.
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Microsoft has been droning on about "intelligent" homes and appliances since before Windows 95 but so far it hasn't really resulted in anything useful.

IMO, you don't need displays everywhere. You don't need to be able to look up recipes using your refrigerator. or control your coffee maker remotely. You don't need an integrated e-book reader in your bedside table or an e-newspaper that pops out of the table when you're having breakfast.

A general-purpose mobile device that follows you anywhere is more efficient and easier to manage and use. For example, why does that watch need a special touch surface in order to use it? Why not just have it upload the health information to a centralized server in your home (or more likely the cloud, no one cares about privacy these days). Then you can access it from your laptop, tablet, phone, anywhere.

This stuff just seems very outdated. Gimmicky and sometimes cool, but outdated.
 
I like the ideas, looks like projectors everywhere, but in reality that place looks like a cave its so dark, and the cost of all those bulbs? Well I guess when you got Bill Gates money you can dream.
 
JimmiG said:
This stuff just seems very outdated. Gimmicky and sometimes cool, but outdated.
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Outdated? Considering that the technology to do this stuff is pretty recent I'd say not. Is it practical, some of it is, the ability to pull up all you media wherever it might be and image search definitely are. At any rate to think that home base technology like this will never gain any traction I think is a little unrealistic. It's mainly a matter of cost.
 
EmptyPockets said:
That watch thing is pretty awesome. Would be nice if it can relay more health information, then perhaps medics can use it to their advantage.
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They're on their way. Some prototypes for diabetics can get the blood sugar levels through the skin without the pinprick. In a few decades a lot of that tech, and probably a ton of stuff not even considered yet, will be commodities.
 
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