Windows Hello
Microsoft’s biometric identity framework in Windows 10, to set up a fingerprint or iris scan identity. Log on to your Surface, without providing a password. A demo showed an application extended with Hello, with the same biometric login experience for the app.
Pen
Use the pen to take notes in OneNote on a Surface – and it’s amazing. . Microsoft has extended those capabilities now to developers to build Universal Windows Apps (UWA) to include a pen taskbar with 2 simple lines of code. The pen experience enables mouse over events, dynamic highlighting, and includes a virtual ruler so you can draw straight lines. Big reaction from the crowd on that demo.
Microsoft also announced a partnership with Adobe to integrate pen functionality into Adobe Illustrator which graphic designers will appreciate.
Hololens
Microsoft’s vision for Augmented Reality. Samsung enabled devices for VR require a phone that plugs into the headset and the headset is fully immersive. The Hololens projects its 3D imagery onto the world around you. The headset is self-contained and does not require a phone. The glasses look like dark shaded sunglasses.
NASA has a booth and their Mars Exploration experience, will debut this summer at the Kennedy Center. The dev kits started delivery this week.
see our previous blog posts on the amazing Holo lens demo at WPC at Orlando last eyar.
Cortana
Build bots to interact with Cortana. The demo was a voice activated Domino’s order that interacted with a bot. I can see many real world uses for this technology. I’m still a luddite and would rather do my own phone calls.
Xbox
Microsoft announced a new software dev kit that will turn any commercial unit into a dev machine. The demo enables real-time debugging and attaching your Visual Studio to your Xbox.
