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"A newly published patent application shows Microsoft potentially planning to take console gaming beyond the barriers of the TV screen by projecting a "peripheral image" around a room, providing a 360-degree view of a virtual scene. Microsoft's patent application for an "immersive display experience" was published by the US Patent Office last week after being filed back in early 2011. It describes a standard video game system with a connected "environmental display" capable of projecting a panoramic image that "appears to surround the user.""

"AR is advancing rapidly as a new medium, moving beyond just a technology. One of the things I've dedicated myself to in this field is exploring what AR does best and the opportunities that exist in AR as a medium for storytelling and creating engaging experiences. Each medium has unique characteristics to be harnessed, capabilities that extend beyond other mediums. We're presently in this exciting phase of AR, of identifying, as well as being able to technically influence, what these capacities and criteria are and can become. Just like film, television, radio and photography when first novel, AR presents brand new terrain ripe for creative exploration. With this comes the possibility of forming new conventions and developing a stylistic language of AR."

"Je pense que c'est l'une des vidéos qui résume le mieux, aujourd'hui, notre rapport à la mémoire numérique, en choisissant un scénario « apocalyptique »."

Gizmodo neatly summarizes all the things SmartGlass is capable of. Second screen? Check. Additional game controller? Check. "Remote control for the Internet"? Check. SmartGlass enables all these features and more. And in doing so, it makes an extremely compelling case for why the Xbox 360 should be the anchor of your living room, and by extension, of your gadget-driven life. Which brings me back to why I want a Windows tablet.

When you think "display of the future," what pops into your head? Is it the hyper-neon displays of Blade Runner or the holograms from Star Wars? The world of digital display always seems to wiggle its way into the bleeding-edge technology of science fiction, but it's not unwarranted.

the new 'MR (mixed reality) system' by canon enables the viewing of full-scale, 3-dimensional CGI in real environments. the full-vision headset donned by users integrates not only video cameras and displays but also a positional and directional sensor that ensure that the virtual image is seen at the proper perspective relative to the viewer. canon refers to the system as 'mixed reality' to contrast it from a simple superimposing of imagery onto the real environment, since the digital imagery is explorable in realistic 3D thanks to these sensors.

A set of contact lenses that turns the wearer's field of vision into a screen

Améliorer la communication entre un système et un être humain ne passe pas par la multiplication de mots clés connus de la machine, mais par la capacité de cette dernière à déduire une intention dans la phrase d'une personne.

icrosoft on Monday revealed a family of super-thin tablets called Microsoft Surface to compete against Apple's iPad and to extend the lifetime of Windows, its flagship product of 30 years. The launch is a concession that the tablet will likely become the workhorse of the trillion-dollar information technology industry, a radical demotion of the desktop computer. "We've ushered in a new era of cloud computing and embraced mobility," CEO Steve Ballmer said at the event. Microsoft has positioned the Surface family of touchscreen devices as a fundamental part of interacting with its next-generation operating system.

Une nouvelle technologie permet de concilier deux formats longtemps jugés antagonistes : le papier et le numérique. Pour aboutir, demain, à des journaux imprimés totalement interactifs ? Et si la bataille entre les défenseurs du papier et ceux de l'écran prenait fin grâce au papier journal interactif ? Le chaînon manquant vient, semble-t-il, d'être imaginé par l'entreprise Novalia et des chercheurs des universités de Central Lancashire, de Dundee et de Surrey, au Royaume-Uni. Comme le rapporte le magazine en ligne ActuaLitté, cette société a abouti à « la création d'un papier journal compatible avec l'information électronique ». Fondé sur une encre électroconductive, qui réagit à la manière d'un écran tactile, il peut comporter des boutons interactifs, qui permettent au lecteur de voter à un sondage, d'activer un supplément audio ou encore de « liker » sur Facebook. « Pour la première fois, d'une manière évolutive et manufacturable, nous allons connecter le papier à internet », s'est réjoui Jon Rogers, de l'université de Dundee. Le procédé technique n'a pour le moment pas été dévoilé. Mais si le procédé vient à être confirmé, cette réalité augmentée promet de faire évoluer bien des choses... Elle pourrait par exemple être appliquée aux posters ou aux menus de restaurants, souligne ActuaLitté.