Kinect’s pretty cool. Surface is cool. Depending on your preferences, Windows Phone 7 can be cool. Not too many people would describe the current crop of Windows 7 slate tablets as cool. But as Aussie firm nsquared demonstrates in this video, you can bring them all together with a little programming nous and make something that goes beyond cool.
Huge thanks to regular Gizmodo commenter warcroft for pointing this out; while some of it appears a little pre-canned, it’s still a great demonstration of how to get different technologies working together.[nsquaredsolutions]
warcroft
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:45 PMIts so awesome!
Thanks guys :)
Steve
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:45 PMGreat concepts – I agree that it seemed fairly set up and linear, but you need to start somewhere!
One thing I’d like to know is how he got the Australian voice recognition working on the Kinect! (or have I missed something?)
Sicarius123
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 1:07 PMIt was a Kinect sensor on a PC, not an Xbox running Kinect.
Awesome demonstration, god I want that tech in my house!
LDX
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:45 PMthat was awesome.
Ashley
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:49 PMIt seems pre-canned it’s actually a working demo. I know the creator and also was one of the people demoing this project at TechEd 2011 Australia.
Ashley
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Seth Grimshaw
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:51 PMGreat demonstration, it seemed almost scripted by the end.
But that table+phone combo, Marvellous! DO WANT
Werd
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 1:36 PMLooks cool, why does the Dr. look dead inside? :)
smurfydog
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 4:15 PMMind = blown!
Especially the bit where he takes a photo of the lamp, cuts out the lamp with a single tap-and-drag and renders it as a 3D model with a single gesture!
Are you a wizard?
MotorMouth
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:06 PMYeah, Microsoft are a spent force, aren’t they? Surface is without a doubt the most sci-fi thing I have seen in my entire life and this demo takes it up a notch or two. I really like the interaction with the phone (Omnia 7 looks great, too). Hopefully the new Surface will be more affordable and businesses will start buying them.
Sam Timmins
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 10:02 PMDean finally reproduced I see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0HkeBEALA
Spanky
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:53 AMThat went from “wow…impressive” to absolute farce because they just decided to treat the audience like morons, by assuming that the amazing technology wasn’t impressive enough…so hey let’s spice it up with some ridiculous unbelievable shit….great idea.
Why include the bit with the camera producing a 3D model without even going through the motions of rotating the lamp so we might think it was possibly not pre-rendered? Why was it necessary at the end to have the document “automatically” know which parts were being updated just by dragging the two new items onto it? That wasn’t anything to do with what they were demonstrating and just served to make the rest of it look more like bullshit too.
Would love to see this guy as a magician. “Pick any card….any card at all…oh bugger not that one…….any card at all….Is THIS your card….?”