Brain hole: Microsoft 2015 Future Vision tells us some trends

After reading the concept video of Microsoft 2015 "Vision of the future", are we all spinning out of the future world? In the previous article, we analyzed what has been achieved in the 09 Vision video, and today I'm going to take you through some of the new, interesting but potentially achievable technologies and trends that will emerge from the vision of the 2015. Today, we call them black technology.

Cowork Joint Office environment

In the vision of the future video ("video") in 2015, the heroine in Taipei shopping, suddenly learned that she has received an opportunity to participate in an undersea algae planting project, its smart bracelet shows this message, the hostess in order to participate in the work of the project, decisively abandoned the close friend, A person rides a bicycle to come to a place called "Cowork". In this place, everyone has a desk, which can be rented for 1 days, 2 days, 5 days or a week. This desk is a common office device, but because it is a touch-screen device, all content is set synchronously according to the user.

This design can maximize the efficiency of office appliances while not interfering with everyone's work. We note that the video of the heroine came to Cowork joint office space is already night, but also noted that at this time cowork or a lot of people, someone in the office, someone in exchange. To avoid the problem of not finding office space, Cowork can be booked online.

In addition, we found that the heroine in Cowork office will bring a pair of Bluetooth headset, it can display blue and orange (or more) color, can detect heart rate and blood pressure. Depending on the user's status and work schedule, Cowork's desk automatically determines whether the user is in the working state, and if it does, the office space is adjusted to the "Do Not Disturb" mode, and the Bluetooth headset's color changes from blue to orange. In this way, other people can see the user's state, will not disturb them.

Adjustable tables and chairs, synchronized content, a predetermined location so that anyone can have an office environment at any time, anywhere, as usual. This may be one of the trends in the future of mobile office, even if there is no fixed office space to worry about, because you can always rent an office in the Cowork, experience and office-like office environment.

LBS is everywhere

LBS, is based on the meaning of location-based services. Depending on where the user is now, the service provider can provide the appropriate service. In the video, the hostess did not know why she had to drive a four-drive SUV in the mud to a high-end country teahouse for afternoon tea. ）。 After sitting down, her tablet on the table prompts "Afternoon tea time", a flick of the button into the Teahouse menu, which can be seen in the tea house next to the rice field: tea, juice, drinks and refreshments. The female owner ordered a pot of oolong tea, the whole ordering process without waiters, no guidance, and even no one to collect money. After a while, a waiter served oolong tea. This is the only conversation between the heroine and the restaurant.

Now, LBS Service has provided us with quite a lot of convenience in our life. Open the Life class application, for example the American Regiment, handles, the populace reviews and so on, can be based on the user's location to provide the surrounding discount shops, restaurant information, open the micro-letter, MO, and other social applications, but also to see people around to communicate; Navigation class applications can use GPS or base station signals to provide very accurate navigation services, Convenient for us to travel.

However, there are still many problems in LBS, such as excessive reliance on outdoor signals and the need for application assistance. So far, we still do not see a satisfactory indoor navigation software appears, because the indoor can not receive GPS signals, and wireless signal base station accuracy is not enough for indoor navigation. Also, if you want to use the LSB application, you must download a specific application, such as a discount shopping, you have to download this type of application, follow the information provided by the application to Shopping, rather than we set a good Shopping route, after walking to a clothing store doorway to remind us " The shop's skateboard shoes are on sale! ", namely: no unified LBS integration resources.

Wearable equipment: true beauty and practicality

What the hell are the wearable devices now? Even Apple Watch, Android Wear smart watch, can only change the dial, change the wrist strap. Not only the beauty of the standard, to show off the role of more than practical.

In the video, the smartphone device has disappeared, the entire video is not visible to the phone, replaced by a mobile phone features wearable computing equipment: wrist strap. This equipment has two functions of mobile computing and wearable equipment, wear on the wrist, can be based on the user's own choice to change the wallpaper color, can be broken into 2 hand rings, but have the ability to communicate, when there is a call or notice, it will use patterns, sound and vibration to remind. Previous wearable equipment requires the hands of the user to operate, namely one hand matching, the other hand finger touch. The video does not know the name of the wearable equipment can be completed one-handed operation, through the identification of the thumb movements of the wrist muscle movement to carry out touch operation, through the rotation of the wrist to complete up and down sliding operation. Take it off the hand, forced to break straight, is a smartphone. Because the device has NFC capabilities, it can also be used as a key or identification device, for example, when the hostess enters the Cowork joint office space to open the door and use it to start Cowork's desk and sync information.

The integration of wearable equipment functions is a trend. Take the smart bracelet, before the smart hand ring has no screen, now the high-end hand ring standard a rectangular screen; the previous smart bracelet can only count steps, now the smart bracelet, such as Microsoft Band could be stuffed with 10 sensors, can provide heart rate, location, air pressure, body temperature, light, Ultraviolet ray and so on information. The Android Wear, Apple Watch smart watch can do more complicated tasks with the help of a mobile phone, which functions far beyond the two functions of "looking at time" and "pleasing to the eye."

Personalization is a higher level of demand after people meet the needs of the function. As a mobile phone wallpaper, with a mobile phone shell, with a personality ring. It can be foreseen that when wearable equipment meets the general requirements of the market, people will be personalized to the product to put more demand. Video of this device may give us some inspiration, it is a variety of full-featured equipment combination, but also to meet personalized needs.

AR/VR, what you can see but can't touch

At this year's WMC conference, HTC United Valve unveiled the Vive wearable virtual reality helmet. This means that Valve's Steam gaming platform is starting to support virtual reality technology, and players with virtual reality helmets can experience a gaming experience like the Pro version. January, when Microsoft released the HoloLens holographic projection glasses, many people see the promo, they feel that "Microsoft's own hole has not completed and dug a big pit," but the publicity after the display of the real machine to let people believe that this device can indeed have such a function, and even praised as "black technology."

Whether it is virtual reality or augmented reality, in the technological progress has been a certain development, but the content of the promotional film is still a long distance. Now the technology must wear a screen to be able to project the virtual content, while the video appears without the need for a screen to display.

However, virtual reality and augmented reality can be widely used in our life, through cloud computing, 4/5g networks and a variety of sensors, the wearer can get the virtual information of all objects. For example, the scene of underwater algae sample detection in video, with the help of augmented reality technology, the wearer can view the plant according to the set route, can immediately obtain the plant growth status, the new species of fish information, etc. another scene, the hostess common hand on the tea table to simulate the density of algae planting and to calculate, put in the past, only "Iron Man" will have such a scene. After these technologies become popular, such scenes will be more in our lives, such as walking on the road to get the projection on the road on the route, into the bookstore can guide us to a book in the display cabinet, according to the shopping list recommended the best supermarket walking route.

What we see but cannot touch, will slowly change our lives, imperceptibly let our "unacceptable" become "habitual".

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)