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Windows 8’s NUI Foundation, a Windows 9, Windows 10 Investment

Microsoft is not building just a new version of the Windows client, with Windows 8, the company is laying the foundation for future Windows releases, in terms of natural user interface evolution. NUI models are already widespread, but they’re still far from being ubiquitous, and there’s one frontier th...

5 October 2011
03:53 GMT

Windows 8 NUI Taste Next Week: Multi-Touch Interface Demo

Microsoft is gearing up to give a taste of the upcoming Windows 8 NUI evolution as early as next week, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The software giant has already offered sneak peeks at Windows vNext on several occasions this year, but with the exception of confirming System on a Chi...

27 May 2011
02:39 GMT

Kinect Fitting Room a Glimpse of Next Gen NUI Augmented Environments

Remember all those Xbox 360 users standing in line to get a new Kinect natural user interface sensor when it was launched last year?Well, they were actually the first consumers to recognize the amazing potential of Kinect and act on it. Last week, news emerged of a Kinect fitting room, designed by AR Door and on di...

17 May 2011
10:18 GMT

NUIs, Now in Microsoft Research, Tomorrow Everywhere

Natural human – computer interaction models are becoming pervasive thanks mainly to the introduction of new form factors, but the NUIs of today are just a preview of things to come.Speaking of previews, at TechFest 2011 in Redmond this week, Microsoft Research will showcase some projects that have yet to becom...

9 March 2011
11:31 GMT

Microsoft Says NUI Is Nascent

Natural User Interface is a term thrown around more and more in relation with new technology, describing the evolution of human computer interaction to next generation models allowing users to leverage voice, gesture and touch commands instead of a keyboard and a mouse. While NUIs are indeed being featured in more p...

26 January 2011
16:41 GMT

Microsoft NUI Insight: Pen and Touch

With products such as Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Surface Windows 7 and Kinect, Microsoft is at the forefront of the natural user interface wave in computing. The company’s products offer customers next generation interaction models involving pen, multi-touch, voice, gestures, etc. Through Channel 9, the softw...

20 December 2010
05:56 GMT

New 3D NUI Experience: Pinch-the-Sky Dome

The more the concept of Natural User Interfaces gets contoured, the more the traditional mouse and keyboard start looking like blunt tools from the stone age of technology. Pinch-the-Sky Dome is a new project from Microsoft Research that brings to the table an entirely new 3D NUI experience. Users shouldn’t thi...

17 May 2010
10:53 GMT

Microsoft NUI Lets Guests Touch Music History at Hard Rock Café

Although Windows 7 will be the product to bring natural user interfaces into mainstream computing, Microsoft had been offering NUI-based interaction to users years ahead, with the release of Microsoft Surface. Most recently, guests visiting the Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas will be able to experience first-hand ...

19 January 2010
06:32 GMT

Understanding Windows Mobile 6.5 Touch Gestures

Windows Mobile 6.5 supports primary main gestures that together will represent the backbone of the interaction model introduced by the operating system. And make no mistake about it, although Windows Mobile and Windows CE are in no way strangers to touch screen interfaces, the fact of the matter is that gesture suppo...

10 July 2009
09:59 GMT

Windows 7 Performance, UI, Touch Make It Education-Friendly

Microsoft is pointing to Windows 7 as one of the innovative technologies that it is offering for organizations involved in the educational process. The Redmond company indicated at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009 that Windows 7-specific features and capabilities managed to make the operating...

29 June 2009
06:47 GMT

OSes in 10 Years Will Have to Do More than OSes Today

Microsoft is committed to the evolution of Natural User Interfaces, until they become pervasive across all computing products. There are examples today of the efforts from the software giant that are already producing results. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. NUIs are in their infancy, and Microsoft Chief Exe...

4 June 2009
10:42 GMT

Natural User Interfaces Beyond Windows 7

Microsoft is increasingly flirting with Natural User Interfaces as the evolution from traditional computer-human interaction models and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles acted like the stage for the next piece in the company's NUI puzzle: Project Natal. Sure enough, at an entertainment centri...

2 June 2009
12:14 GMT

Natural User Interfaces of the Future

With the advent of Microsoft Surface and the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft is attempting to redefine the human-computer interaction paradigm. The Redmond company has constantly increased the focus on natural user interfaces, and the evolution of existing computing interaction models beyond the now tr...

24 April 2009
10:04 GMT

Microsoft Surface Shows NUI Is the Future

When Eric Havir. Sr. Manager, Digital Communications at Microsoft/Surface stated that “Microsoft Surface and education are like peanut butter and jelly” he was right on the spot. Havir offered the two videos embedded at the bottom of this article showing Microsoft Surface, the Redmond company's first...

30 March 2009
07:27 GMT

Introducing the Windows 7 Core Touch Gestures

With the Windows 7 Natural User Interface, Microsoft is intent to use predictability and reliability in relation to gestures in order to build touch habits. The new Windows 7 interaction model was conceived built on the evolution of the platform's graphical user interface, and to tailor itself to all application...

26 March 2009
13:15 GMT

Windows 7 Did Not Get a Touch UI, or a Touch Shell

Making Windows 7 touchable involved for Microsoft a focus on the evolution of the existing experience, namely optimizing the graphical user interface for touch, and not delivering a Touch UI or a Touch Shell. The Redmond company emphasized that the end purpose was to make touch capabilities pervasive throughout the o...

26 March 2009
11:40 GMT

The Evolution of the Mouse Tailored on the Natural UI of Windows 7

Microsoft is a software company that allows itself to flirt a tad with hardware design and manufacturing. However, the Redmond giant is limited for the most part at producing hardware peripherals, and is best known for its collections of mouse and keyboard devices. At the very same time, the software giant is making ...

5 August 2008
09:45 GMT

Introducing the Next Generation Windows 7 User Interface

One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs. In the background of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Micros...

28 May 2008
05:23 GMT


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