Video: Microsoft's Holodesk Lets You Play With Virtual 3-D Objects

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By Dan NosowitzPosted 10.20.2011 at 2:37 pm8 Comments

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Microsoft's Research department is always coming up with cool new ways to interact with gadgets, and this newly released video of the "Holodesk" is definitely one of the cooler ones. It uses a Kinect ("hacked" doesn't seem really correct when it's a Microsoft project) to see your hands and face, and allows you to juggle completely virtual 3-D objects--balance a virtual ball on a book, then tip it into a bowl of water, or stack virtual 3-D blocks. It's pretty amazing.

video and more at link

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-10/video-microsofts-holodesk-lets-you-play-virtual-3-d-objects

[qb]

1. That's cool, but I wish they could make a version of Windows Explorer that doesn't crash every day.

[laconicsax]

2. I ran XP for a year and a half before Windows Explored crashed.

YMMV

[silverweb]

3. Try XP.

Like laconicsax, I've never had it crash, and I've been using it since it came out because it's the platform required by my work programs.