Microsoft Working On 3D Gesture-Controlled Display

Take the tech behind the Kinect, combine it with a transparent OLED screen and throw in a fancy new “wedge” lens and you’ve got the future of the interactive computer: the 3D, gesture-controlled interface science fiction loves.

Microsoft Applied Sciences Group has given us a peek into the challenge of making computer-human interaction as easy as picking up blocks as a child. In their words, they want to create a display technology that will be “an interactive window on the digital world, where the display will know who and where the user is, present content that is context aware, and allow natural interactions with the display surface.”

Forget the archaic mouse and even the soon-passé multitouch screen, we’re moving toward Tony Stark’s workshop.

For a better sense of where the Microsoft researchers are headed, check out the three videos after the break.

[Microsoft Applied Sciences via Engadget]