http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft's new lens tracks your face, steers 3D images to your eyes (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
I have to agree and hope they don't shelf this like Courier. I am still getting over that. An obvious iPad killer and yet Microsoft threw that into the wind, and continue to let us suffer the onslaught of Apple news in almost all e-magazines!]]>Jun 14th 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/I can probably tell you already that this is not something Microsoft will make and sell, simply because they are not a screen manufacturer, my guess is that the technology will be broken down to apear in other products and maybe patenteda and lisensed to other companies.]]>Jun 14th 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
What is it with people thinking Microsoft just flushed Courier right before release ?
There were no working prototypes and the actual device was probably canceled because it would cost $2000 to make right now.
This tech with Project Natal is going to be the future you can only have advanced interaction with computers once they learn to watch and read us.]]>Jun 14th 2010 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
Lionhead are a great example of people who make awesome tech demos (check out "The Room") that never get released as proper games. The reason they do it is research, to find out what works in a game and what doesn't. Sometimes things get panned because they're not technically feasible in a large scale video game or they simply aren't good enough, there are a myriad more reasons. But, and it's a big but, just because something isn't released, it doesn't mean that the technology will be used elsewhere. Things from tech demos seep forwards into public releases and the same is with Microsoft.

Even if this doesn't see the light of day, it shows they're innovating and it's possible we'll see it crop up further down the line - perhaps in an Xbox somewhere.]]>Jun 14th 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jul 6th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jul 6th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
Little hope of them going all on on xbox for the phone?

MS Opens their check book to high profile iPhone game devs to port
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=17076

MS creates a mobile game studio for WP7
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=17068

It seems like they are putting a lot of effort to leverage their xBox brand on the phone by bringing in simplier games (first link) to more complex ones normally developed by larger game development firms (second link).]]>Jun 14th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
But yeah this is cool]]>Jun 14th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
and I bet I still do

*stops talking*]]>Jun 14th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
The engineers come up with names like Project Natal, Avalon, Indigo, Longhorn, Photon, Acrylic, Sparkle, Quartz, and Astoria.

The guys up the chain then rename them to "Kinect", "Window Presentation Foundation", "Windows Communication Foundation", "Windows Vista", "Windows Phone 7", "Expression Design", "Expression Blend", "Expression Web", and "ADO.NET Data Services". Boring!]]>Jun 14th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Steve Jobs, evil tech dictator.

Talk about role reversal.]]>Jun 14th 2010 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
I take it you've never worked in a department that does research or proof of concepts. Most never make it. That's why you have departments like this to experiment and try out new things.

In MS's case a lot of what they demo does make it. Something like Surface made it out - it just hasn't been adopted widely.]]>Jun 14th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
no, they cannot.]]>Jun 14th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
I still think once manufacturers switch to passive polarized glasses instead of active shutter 3D will take off, but this new thing MS has come up with may eventually be the replacement for passive polarized.]]>Jun 14th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/

"SeeReal develops technology that is licensed to display manufacturers, including several variants of a tracked autostereoscopic display..."

Makes me wonder if this is actually SeeReal's tech licensed to MS...

"...the display knows where the users are and provides appropriate information only to those regions in space where individual eyes are located. This is enabled by a real-time tracking system based on a pair of stereo cameras, a DSP with proprietary code, and a synchronizing hardware to sync an active light source and the information display providing the left and right views..."

(from http://www.seereal.com/en/autostereoscopy/papers/EI08%206803-24%20Web.pdf)

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Spot on. MS has been nothing.

Let's see ... Windows 7. Bing. Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5. WP7. Zune HD. Office 2007, 2010. Natal. etc, etc.

I think one could reasonably argue that WP7 changed more than any other other mobile OS in the past 3 years. Just go compare 6.1 to WP7. Then compare the OS for the iPhone 1G to iPhone 4G. Or even the early releases of Android (1.5) to Froyo. MS has clearly changed more than either of those OS's. It remains to be seen whether WP7 will be a success but to suggest that they haven't been doing anything is just wrong. ]]>Jun 14th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/
The big question is: would MS come with windows phone 7 like it is now (the biggest change since 6.1) if the iPhone OS and android never existed? Because with windows phone 7 they are catching up and not creating something new or innovative.]]>Jun 14th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/microsofts-new-lens-tracks-your-face-steers-3d-images-to-your/Jun 14th 2010 5:34PM