A bathroom full of sensors, robots with a sense of humor, or an entire apartment including augmented reality. That is the vision of the future of new technologies, according to a Microsoft presentation, Thursday, February 10 at the Palais des Congres de Paris, before a packed house. After having imitated the program "La Nouvelle Star", to determine the best applications for its mobile phones in October, Microsoft opted this time for a staged and staggered theatrical sort of Dickens' Christmas Carol Revisited .
In a series of skits, a visitor from the future to a young woman describes the next steps in his daily life: e-health, robotics trade "invisible computer". First innovation: the bathroom, with a "magic mirror" that can recognize who appears before him, especially a toothbrush with sensors.
After a few seconds, the onboard computer in the bathroom is categorical: excessively high blood sugar. And a doctor immediately arise in videoconferencing, to prescribe a new treatment. "A more modern medicine, more active, more participative, more proactive," says the visitor of the future.
The speaker also mentioned the possibility to anticipate the peak of an epidemic by collecting data from all patients, data that will be "pre-identified". AUGMENTED REALITY A VERY During the presentation, the robot Nao Aldebaran Robotics, which plays the role of comic service. "I'm not stupid like R2D2," the robot from Star Wars, took the machine after a surreal conversation, but almost consistent with stakeholders on stage.
For designers, this intelligent robot could be used to keep an eye on his children, or provide assistance to dependents. For shopping, the housewife of the future will also rely on technological innovations, such as "virtual stores" accessible from terminals in which the consumer can simply walk, a hand movement.
Such virtual storefronts, allowing for example to choose a custom shoe, already exist but require further processing capacities of important data. "With Moore's Law, such systems could soon become inexpensive," said Stephane Negro CEO of Intel, who attended the event. Microsoft finally provides as augmented reality or that the device KINECTS, which lets you play without a controller, are currently still in their infancy.
Put the project with Microsoft Reasearch Skin is the whole body becomes an interface. Equipped with a sensor, users can indulge in some of Tetris, or activate, by movements of fingers, a menu appears directly on her forearms. Light Space project promises to him when making his home all interactive.
A virtual object, like a photo on a text, can be moved manually from one table to a wall by passing from hand to hand. COMPUTER "situationist" But the vision of the IT group for the more comprehensive the "computer situationist" able, through sensors, to have a knowledge of the user's environment.
The applications are endless, according to Microsoft: a terminal capable of automatically speak the language of his interlocutor, a mobile phone that determines if the person is in the "mood" to respond ... "The ultimate goal is to design a computer that is not only to our orders, but a computer that works in our name, which would leave a little hand," said the speaker.
To input data into the computer responsive to the environment, Microsoft is considering two types of sensors: materials, such as GPS, geolocation, or accelerometers for movement, but also software sensors, for example giving the machine knowledge of the agenda of the user, or describing membership in a particular social network.
Microsoft, however advanced a potential invasion of privacy, and advocates the need for a privacy policy. - "It's still a fear, it looks like a script for I, Robot," says the young woman at the end of its projection of 24 hours in the future ... - "After all, the movie I, Robot does not end so bad," replied the visitor of the future ... 
In a series of skits, a visitor from the future to a young woman describes the next steps in his daily life: e-health, robotics trade "invisible computer". First innovation: the bathroom, with a "magic mirror" that can recognize who appears before him, especially a toothbrush with sensors.
After a few seconds, the onboard computer in the bathroom is categorical: excessively high blood sugar. And a doctor immediately arise in videoconferencing, to prescribe a new treatment. "A more modern medicine, more active, more participative, more proactive," says the visitor of the future.
The speaker also mentioned the possibility to anticipate the peak of an epidemic by collecting data from all patients, data that will be "pre-identified". AUGMENTED REALITY A VERY During the presentation, the robot Nao Aldebaran Robotics, which plays the role of comic service. "I'm not stupid like R2D2," the robot from Star Wars, took the machine after a surreal conversation, but almost consistent with stakeholders on stage.
For designers, this intelligent robot could be used to keep an eye on his children, or provide assistance to dependents. For shopping, the housewife of the future will also rely on technological innovations, such as "virtual stores" accessible from terminals in which the consumer can simply walk, a hand movement.
Such virtual storefronts, allowing for example to choose a custom shoe, already exist but require further processing capacities of important data. "With Moore's Law, such systems could soon become inexpensive," said Stephane Negro CEO of Intel, who attended the event. Microsoft finally provides as augmented reality or that the device KINECTS, which lets you play without a controller, are currently still in their infancy.
Put the project with Microsoft Reasearch Skin is the whole body becomes an interface. Equipped with a sensor, users can indulge in some of Tetris, or activate, by movements of fingers, a menu appears directly on her forearms. Light Space project promises to him when making his home all interactive.
A virtual object, like a photo on a text, can be moved manually from one table to a wall by passing from hand to hand. COMPUTER "situationist" But the vision of the IT group for the more comprehensive the "computer situationist" able, through sensors, to have a knowledge of the user's environment.
The applications are endless, according to Microsoft: a terminal capable of automatically speak the language of his interlocutor, a mobile phone that determines if the person is in the "mood" to respond ... "The ultimate goal is to design a computer that is not only to our orders, but a computer that works in our name, which would leave a little hand," said the speaker.
To input data into the computer responsive to the environment, Microsoft is considering two types of sensors: materials, such as GPS, geolocation, or accelerometers for movement, but also software sensors, for example giving the machine knowledge of the agenda of the user, or describing membership in a particular social network.
Microsoft, however advanced a potential invasion of privacy, and advocates the need for a privacy policy. - "It's still a fear, it looks like a script for I, Robot," says the young woman at the end of its projection of 24 hours in the future ... - "After all, the movie I, Robot does not end so bad," replied the visitor of the future ...
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