Something similar from a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw

Unless I missed it, the microsoft HoloDesk does not provide tactile feedback like the one in the outube video. Still cool though.

The seamless transfer of sphere from sheet of paper to cup was pretty cool.

How would one do that?

Lasers? Focused blasts of air?

Its explained in one of the video (at 1:00). Basically they use a focused ultrasonic beam to create tactile feedback.

Who writes these titles?

Same thought. Wonder if those titles are generated simply for a more descriptive url. In that case, I think writers are missing their target audience - humans.

Also this particular title strikingly resembles typical MS's writing signature such as "Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose"

See http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/20/8413642-buy...

You would certainly get a low mark at an elementary writting class for a paper title like that.

It's funny to think of how primitive this will seem in a decade's time -- like the first TVs or the first cell phones.

Love the title. Though it made me think the video would be something different.

"Ghost in the Shell"-style tech is the way of the future.

Anyone else excited about the yet unreleased Sony HMD?

Kind of makes you wonder why "Microsoft Research" isn't just "Microsoft".

Because "Microsoft Research" doesn't have to consider silly things like profit (or even marketability), that's for big MS to figure out.

Neither does Bing (at least so far).

You become the first company to launch a phone that can be interacted with in 3D, you become very, very profitable.

Not if your phone costs thousands of dollars to manufacture and you haven't yet worked out how to make the 3D interaction actually useful for anything.

I can't imagine how his kind of interface would ever be useful in a phone. Interface is determined by form factor. Kinect is great across a room, but for a hand held device?

..and here I thought I could already do that.

At last.