Microsoft is ready to launch a life browser

Such a small picture from the future: Imagine you are putting the camera on a specially equipped table - and all digital photos are laid out before your eyes on the surface. Or another picture: a three-dimensional hand of your colleague from overseas suddenly appears above the table, showing the photos you need with your finger and explaining what to do with them. This is the concept of “surface computing”, which is implemented using a 3D projector, a webcam and special software ( video ). Forgot what happened last week? LifeBrowser (“Life Browser”) will come to the rescue . It records all events around: with whom they met, with whom they worked, which sites they visited.

All of the above does not apply to fiction. Lifeblogging and others are modern technologies, albeit inaccessible to the public, but created only as prototypes in the research division of Microsoft Research.

The latest developments by Microsoft Research were discussed at the recent Gartner Symposium / ITxpo conference. In particular, senior researcher Eric Horvits (Eric Horvits) said that they are experiencing a prototype of a program for lifeblogger for several years and consider it just an invaluable program: - said Horvitz. “I would like LifeBrowser to be used everywhere in three to five years.”

LifeBrowser is a conceptually new interface. All information is attached to the timeline, on which it is very convenient to navigate to any year, day and hour. Microsoft researchers consider it fundamentally important to store all data locally, and not on the Internet. In their opinion, so a person will be able to better control them. The local home servers will archive the lives of all family members.
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via InternetNews