Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Microsoft Visioning

I thought I would share a video recently posted on Microsoft's site detailing their vision for the future of education (plus other stuff). Unsurprisingly, interactive surfaces feature heavily as well as videoconferencing, real-time translation and other technologies to do with inter-device communication.

Productivity Future Vision

I was surprised that gesture interfaces did not feature, considering the recent announcement about Project Natal, their gesture/voice/image hybrid interface for the Xbox 360. I can think of 10 educational applications of that right now...