By Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC
On a visit to the company’s headquarters, I had a chance to see some of the projects that Microsoft scientists at its laboratories in Redmond, in Beijing and in Cambridge, England, believe will change the way we see computers. And the striking thing about what Microsoft’s research chief Craig Mundie picked to show off to a group of technology journalists was that almost all of them involved Kinect. The system which turns a player’s body into a games controller was developed with the help of seven different research groups at the company’s three main labs, some working on voice recognition, others on motion sensors and a range of other technologies.
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