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Last Friday, Microsoft in partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and TIME , presented the “Creativity Conference” – a one-of-a-kind event convening leaders from the world of politics, media, business and the arts to engage in a direct dialogue on the role...

One theme that really stood out today is the use of 3-D—typically to scan physical objects and transform them into three-dimensional models on your computer. So one project that really stands out—both literally and figuratively—is the 3-D display with haptic feedback that Mike Sinclair...

Over the last few days Microsoft has provided glimpses of our vision for the future and where technology could take us — first with the opening of the Envisioning Center , and then yesterday with a conversation hosted by Craig Mundie and Eric Rudder regarding Microsoft’s strategic and technical...

  This project slipped by me when it was shown back in January at Boxpark in London. AKQA and onformative used Kinect sensors to enable consumers to immerse themselves in an installation that creates a 3D particle mirror of their body.  

Add this to the list of amazing artistic projects making use of Kinect. It’s a project titled unnamed soundsculpture by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer of onformative who explain it as follows – but my explanation is “beautiful”. The basic idea of the project is built upon...

Another week, another Kinect project. In fact this one has been doing the rounds of my favorite websites for the last week or so - I’m just catching post conference season. Audi City London worked with Razorfish to build a revolutionary customer experience that takes the car showroom in to the...

This one has been doing the rounds but I couldn’t resist posting here in case you missed it. The V Energy drinks team commissioned this amazing installation that turns motion in to music. You can download the track (MP3) that resulted from this ambitious project and read an incredibly detailed...

Last month, Mashable had an interesting post on the future of digital displays that I found fascinating. Lauren Hockenson talked with experts about the rise of digital displays in airports, retail environment and our streets. This is an area Microsoft is a big believer in – and we believe that...

Far too much to write about from this morning’s Worldwide Partner Conference keynote so just one thing for now… Microsoft is acquiring Perceptive Pixel Inc . Steve Ballmer introduced Jeff Han, the founder, who took to the stage to demonstrate the incredible 82” touch screen running...

I spotted this implementation of the Samsung SUR40 recently on Long Zheng’s blog . Microsoft partner, Stimulant , put together a beautiful video showing the capabilities of the Bing application that built for PixelSense . I showed some of these capabilities in my own demo at CES earlier this...

Over the last few weeks I’ve highlighted the work of Second Story with the latest Kinect SDK head tracking capability and a Kinect laden installation at the World of Coca Cola . The team in Portland, Oregon has a great project I’d like to show you too. This one sits in the New York City...

Sitting in front of the television watching The Killing this weekend I did what I routinely do when the adverts come on – skipped past them as I was watching time delayed. That may all change with the advent of NUads . In October last year I mentioned NUads here on NEXT – a new interactive...

Lots of chatter around the office about SmartGlass this week and I’m sure that’ll only continue at Cannes Lions next week – I’ll be there talking future tech! Meantime, check out what’s coming with SmartGlass . Tweet

Last week I posted a video showing Kinect head tracking with a transparent display from a company called Second Story . This is just one of the cool things they’ve been up to of late using Kinect. Visitors to the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta will witness more of their work. Once you step through...

I recently stumbled across the work of Second Story , a creative agency based out of Portland, Oregon who build interactive experiences. What led me to them is their outstanding work using two Microsoft technologies in particular – Kinect and Surface 2.0 Before looking at some of their client...

During several talks I have given recently I’ve mentioned Microsoft’s desire to turn every surface into an interactive digital surface. During the talk I gave at the PSFK New York event, I showed how some of this is coming to life with Microsoft Research projects such as Illumishare and the...

In my post earlier today regarding Microsoft Research (MSR) projects I didn’t include this project so thought I’d add an additional post on it. As you can see from the video above, it’s a novel use of existing LCD displays to project two different images. The projected was shown at...

Surface 2.0 is really starting to gather some momentum and applications like this one can only push that forward. I was only remarking to a friend last week how it’d be great to see a fashion magazine using the capability of Surface to enjoy a digital light table designed for their creative production...

Last month I saw several references on the web to Tag: We're It – a digital art installation that used projectors to deliver a floating field of droplets along a white wall. Visitors to the exhibition were invited to share a memory which is recorded and they were then presented with a frame which...

In our series on “things” being connected to the net, I thought it’d be interesting to ponder on what makes a city digital? PSFK posed this question last week following the unveiling of NYC’s Digital Plan by Mayor Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne. They had...

Surface 2.0 is still one of the coolest technologies I have seen this year – largely down to the PixelSense technology it employs to shave 20 some inches of depth of Surface. The big ass table is gone, replaced by a svelte 40 inch high definition panel from our friends at Samsung. It’s hard...

I’ve been presenting this slide a lot lately to explain some of the key areas Microsoft is focused on from a technology trends point of view. The slide doesn’t pretend to be all encompassing and focuses on tech trends (not social or macroeconomic). After a few iterations, a few trends such...

I just stumbled across the video above of what is apparently the largest touch display in the world - 234" of touchiness that Stereolize worked on with Microsoft for CeBit 2011. Looking at their website, Stereolize have some very impressive work in their portfolio. 234” is good and all but I...