In a scenario to burst, full of software developers around the world (persons responsible for creating the innovations that define the usefulness of hardware), the first big applause it carried a rule.
After mentioning that three million people use digital pens to write on screens and that 32% of them do so for more than three hours a day, Bryan Roper admitted that persists a problem in the technology: integration with the real world is clumsy. Although already spent several years in the market for tablets and other devices with digital pens, experience does not exceed the practicality of using a traditional pen and paper. Microsoft wants to change that and San Francisco showed how to achieve: better recognition and a rule
The first relates to the technological capabilities of their devices to understand what users want to achieve.. In the particular case, in addition to allowing someone to write by hand on the screen, the system understands the message and does something about it demonstrated. If we write, for example, “Lunch with Mom tomorrow,” Cortana digital assistant that Microsoft wants to put everywhere offers create an appointment in the calendar. The idea is not new, but the speed of execution (which is usually slow) gives hope.
So the rule was feeling. Showing what can be done with digital pens, Microsoft used a video of Adobe (the makers of Photoshop) where the app offers different types of rules for use. See how the screen recognizes the user’s fingers and moves the rule in real time as if it were truly is impressive.
The emphasis on digital pens shows that Microsoft feels that the future of the technology depends on its ability to understand the details of the real world. Build 2016 is an annual conference (this year held in San Francisco from March 30 to April 1), in which the tech giant shows developers to their plans. Ultimately, it is the encounter between those who are called to build the future, at least from the Windows vision. The message was clear: back to basics because the paradigm shift that is has important issues to consider
Satya Nadella, director of the company, began contextualizing the situation with three questions event. ” technology is helping economic growth or are we stuck? Does technology is empowering people or is moving? Does technology is improving or damaging our privacy? “. They are not minor issues. Cortana, for example, is an ambitious dream about the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. In the best (and this is what Microsoft showed in Build), it will serve as a permanent company that knows all aspects of our routine and helps us organize it. But there are many challenges.
The first is technological. Nadella insisted he wants all Microsoft products interface understand that their use is human communication. As you move devices, the goal is to talk to them and, especially, they understand. “As an industry, we are on the cusp of a new frontier that unites the power of natural human language with advanced automated intelligence,” said the executive. Achieving this is not easy. So the rule was the subject of emotion shows no way for the particular real world can replicate adequately in a digital environment
Although artificial intelligence are many concerns.. Nadella mentioned Tay, a bot that Microsoft created on Twitter and that in less than one day, thanks to learn from their interactions with people who use the social network, began sending violent messages ( “Hitler was right and hate Jews “was one of the worst). “We need principles for how to develop technologies that provide” the director said. The issue is particularly important for Microsoft, because its future is in the relationships between intelligent programs.
In addition to Cortana, which the company sees as the master of ceremonies, they showed how different app can create bots interact with users and do everything automatically. For example, if Skype talking about a trip to the future, Cortana will ask if you want to make reservations at a hotel and inform us with the bot of the hotel, which in turn will give us offerings based on the information Cortana and it gave him. Build 2016 reservations were made for a trip to Ireland through Skype, all between bots and users, in less than three minutes.
To ensure the usefulness of Cortana, Microsoft needs to be everywhere. So he announced a series of tools (such as an upgrade to your Visual Studio, a software development program) so that, from Windows, applications are designed in all ecosystems (Android, ios, Mac). In a world with so many different devices, effort with Windows 10 (which will receive a free upgrade in the second half of this year) and with all the universal platform Windows (tools to design applications) is that something designed for a computer also serve on a phone and a video game console (Xbox One, for example, now have a way for developers to test her designs).
Behind all is its infrastructure cloud services gathering all the information, processes it and uses it to provide intelligence Cortana.
So far efforts have borne fruit. Windows 10 has more than 270 million active users and has been the fastest operating system was adopted in its history. The easier it is for developers that their creations go on all devices, the longer have to imagine ways to make the future easier.
And that’s key because HoloLens, some lenses that project applications Windows as holograms in physical space, from today will reach the hands of developers. This augmented reality is already being used, for example, by the school of medicine at the Care Western Reserve University. In the event they showed how some students can see the nervous system as a projection in three dimensions, while a teacher, who was in another city, explained to them on tumors.
At the end of the event, Nadella presented the project of a developer who is blind: using artificial intelligence and cloud recognition software, created an application for smart lenses that tell what is happening. When sitting in a restaurant and get the menu, her glasses were telling him how to take a picture with cell and then read the dishes offered.
That was the loudest applause of the conference.
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