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dkersten
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.

mc32
The seamless transfer of sphere from sheet of paper to cup was pretty cool.
thefool
How would one do that?

Lasers? Focused blasts of air?

dkersten
Its explained in one of the video (at 1:00). Basically they use a focused ultrasonic beam to create tactile feedback.
jarin
Kind of makes you wonder why "Microsoft Research" isn't just "Microsoft".
ConstantineXVI
Because "Microsoft Research" doesn't have to consider silly things like profit (or even marketability), that's for big MS to figure out.
darrenkopp
Neither does Bing (at least so far).
tomjen3
You become the first company to launch a phone that can be interacted with in 3D, you become very, very profitable.
contextfree
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.
7952
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?
[dead] ShawnJG
I wouldn't be surprised if MS is trying to leapfrog over the latest social craze and looking further down the road to DECIDE what the next craze will be before anyone else can.
cachemoney
Who writes these titles?
MrVitaliy
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.

sethbannon
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.
DharmaSoldat
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?

rick888
..and here I thought I could already do that.
[dead] joeycfan
Stop feeding me these straight lines.