Microsoft Envisioning Center

A glimpse inside the new Microsoft Envisioning Center, where visitors can experience conceptual prototypes that explore how services and devices will help us stay connected and transform the way we live, work and play. Focused on both productivity and consumer scenarios set 5 -- 10 years out, the Envisioning Center is a place where we can engage partners and engineering teams in dialog to evolve our vision.

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Diverse Workstations Scenario

March 04, 2013

Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, shows attendees diverse workstations in a Microsoft Envisioning Center scenario demo at TechForum 2013.

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Interactive Whiteboard System SketchInsight

March 04, 2013

Bongshin Lee of Microsoft Research demonstrates SketchInsight, an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data through real-time sketching.

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SketchInsight Provides Interactive Information Visualization

March 04, 2013

Microsoft Research project SketchInsight uses and extends the narrative attributes of whiteboard animation with interactive information visualization techniques to create a new, engaging form of storytelling with data.

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Rudder & Mundie in Kitchen of Microsoft Envisioning Center

March 04, 2013

Eric Rudder, chief technical strategy officer (left), and Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, talk in the kitchen of the new Microsoft Envisioning Center at TechForum 2013.

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Microsoft Office Enables Multi-Party Conference Meetings

March 04, 2013

Julia White of the Office Division at Microsoft shows how new features of Microsoft Office enable collaborative multi-party conference meetings.

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Solving Complex Problems in the Future

March 04, 2013

Anton Andrews, director of Envisioning in Office Labs, illustrates how teams will work and solve complex problems in the future.

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Interact with Large, Augmented Office Displays

March 04, 2013

Michel Pahud of Microsoft Research shows off Toward Large-Display Experiences, a research project that makes it easier for users to interact with large, augmented office displays.

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Teaching Kinect to Read Your Hands

March 04, 2013

Microsoft Researcher Cem Keskin uses Teaching Kinect to Read Your Hands, a project that uses machine learning to train Kinect to determine reliably whether your hand is open or closed.

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