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Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Water Flow Simulation

Brilliant idea of making use of Kinect 3D depth camera in real world simulation. One of the most useful 3D depth camera applications I’ve ever seen.

Google Project Glass

NUIverse

Interactive Displays: Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions

by MS Research Applied Sciences Team
Interesting application of transparent OLED screen along with Kinect sensor to explore 3D desktop

Two more MSR’s elegant display technologies on augmented reality and remote collaboration:

A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision.

Corning has updated their vision video again.

CES2012-Samsung Smart Window

IBM Next 5 in 5: 2011

IBM unveils its sixth annual “Next 5 in 5″ — a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.

RIM’s Future Vision In Mobile Technology

RIM has its own future vision of mobile technology video…

Microsoft Office Labs ‘Productivity’ Future Vision

MS office labs produced new version of future vision video…

HoloDesk – Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display

MS Research work – HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical
see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion
that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual
image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mir-
ror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer.
Users easily reach into an interaction volume displaying the
virtual image. This allows the user to literally get their hands
into the virtual display. A novel real-time algorithm for rep-
resenting hands and other physical objects, which are sensed
by the Kinect inside this volume, allows physically realistic
interaction between real and virtual 3D objects.

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