14 DAY TRIAL // Want a sneak peek at integration of next generation technology into future households? Then Microsoft has just the right thing for you, and even if you can’t make it to the Redmond campus, videos are available of the company’s vision for the home of tomorrow.
The second video embedded below is the official Microsoft Home presentation, but the first has just been shared by Microsoft’s Steve Clayton, and is great to watch.
The Redmond company’s next generation home features a range of prototypes and explores the future impact that technology will have on people following deep integration into all mundane aspects of life.
“For many years I had heard of the Microsoft Home and wondered what it’d be like inside – having only seen scant glimpses in press shots,” Clayton said.
“I’d also been quite curious about what it’s like from outside – assuming it would be on a suburban street somewhere in Redmond and perhaps like a show home or even like a home from a TV show I used to watch called from Brookside.”
Clayton is joined by Flora Goldthwaite for the tour of Microsoft Home which is located in the Executive Briefing Center on the software giant’s Redmond campus.
Goldthwaite works in the Strategic Prototyping Team responding directly to Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, the man tasked with thinking years in advanced instead of focusing on the present, and anticipating the evolution of technology as well as of consumers and their needs.
“You’ll see the theme of NUI come up numerous times and my personal favorite demo is the first TV screen we see which shows the potential for a world that is clickable,” Clayton said.
“Bear in mind that everything you see in the video is prototype – some of the capabilities are available today in a few homes, some are a way off and some are really just dreams for inspiration.”