Job listings confirm that Microsoft is working on an innovative conference system

Apr 26, 2013 17:21 GMT  ·  By

Video-calling technologies have been around for a while, with Microsoft’s Skype becoming an essential platform for many companies and end users out there trying to hold conference calls over the Internet.

Microsoft Research, on the other hand, is planning to bring the whole idea of talking to someone on the web to a new level with the help of an immersive telepresence technology.

According to a job listing published on Wednesday and spotted by Microsoft-News.com, Microsoft is looking for engineers to work on a technology that would render “realistic physical body-double or proxy in a remote meeting.”

In plain English, this would “give the remote worker a true seat at the table, the ability to look around the room, turn to a colleague and have a side conversation,” as the company explained.

The technology that would basically create a very realistic hologram of you is obviously just in project phase for the time being, but the tech giant most likely plans to bring it in production sometime in the future.