{"id":7258,"date":"2008-09-16T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itexpo_west_2008_microsoft_keynote.html"},"modified":"2008-09-16T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:17:26","slug":"itexpo-west-2008-microsoft-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/itexpo-west-2008-microsoft-keynote.html","title":{"rendered":"ITEXPO West 2008 Microsoft Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X.D. Huang General Manager of Microsoft gave a very interesting keynote where he first focused on the many things coming out of Microsoft Labs &#8212; in particular &#8212; an interface which mixes real objects with virtual ones. Using cameras on your desk the system is able to recognize gestures, etc. This technology is not necessarily new for Microsoft &#8212; but it is the first time I have seen this demo. One interesting thing XD showed is a bouncing virtual ball which bounced off real objects on the desk.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a telepresence demo with a virtual roundtable which allows participants on a call to see each other directly &#8212; I beleive it recognizes head movements and uses multiple monitors. As you might imagine, the system is scalable and operates seamlessly with Microsoft collaboration software.<\/p>\n<p>One other point worth noting is that XD repeated how the software industry went from vertical to horizontal and the companies who did not realize this change didn&#8217;t make it through. He also mentioned there will be some big announcements tomorrow at the show.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/050.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/050.html','popup','width=1200,height=1600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"800\" width=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/050-thumb-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"050.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X.D. Huang General Manager of Microsoft gave a very interesting keynote where he first focused on the many things coming out of Microsoft Labs &#8212; in particular &#8212; an interface which mixes real objects with virtual ones. Using cameras on your desk the system is able to recognize gestures, etc. This technology is not necessarily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,171,179,180,181,201,172,199,188,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}