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Cortana gets the power of sight in Microsoft's future vision of conference rooms
P C World ^ | 05/07/2018 | Mark Hachman

Posted on 05/07/2018 4:08:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A mysterious, cone-shaped device, shown in a demo Monday at Microsoft's Build event in Seattle, hinted at a big leap in capability for the company's digital assistant: the ability to see and identify people.

In the ruthless war among Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google's Assistant, this is a feature we haven't yet seen from the competition. What we don't know is what this prototype is, and whether it will ever come out.

Microsoft’s official, overshadowed demonstration showed us the conference room of the future. Microsoft incorporated Cortana, the Surface Hub, and Skype’s translation and transcription features, together with PowerBI and Microsoft Teams, into a cohesive working environment.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbother; cortana; despotism; fascism; orwelliannightmare; privacyrights; stalinisttactics
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When the real folks from the future come back they will be targeting Gates to stop the real “SkyNet” from enslaving us all....


21 posted on 05/08/2018 3:16:15 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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