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so Microsoft brought us down to their Redmond campus for a special event that I thought was just going to be a condensed version of their hololens demo pretty cool but we weren't going to be able to film that I had no idea that they were going to bring us on an exclusive tour of their advanced prototyping Center and hardware engineering labs this was so cool and it was absolutely unexpected let's go see what they had in store for us until skull Canyon knock features a sixth-generation a core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more in the link in the video description our first stop was their 3d printing room much of their rapid prototyping and content models are realized in this very room I tried to find more information about these specific printers that they used online but was not all that successful what they did tell me was that they could print at down to 14 microns for incredibly fine details and that they could print a wide range of colors all at the same time these 3d printers use UV light to cure the plastic as it is extruded and each one of these printers costs about two hundred thousand dollars meaning that all eight of them cost about 1.6 million dollars that's only you know slightly more than our three thousand dollar Ulta maker - next up we have the CNC room or computer numerical control this is where they run various prototypes of different metal products the only thing they would show us currently being milled was the keyboard for a Microsoft Surface book everything else was covered up in different ways and made very abundantly clear that we were not allowed to film them which is fair on the table they gave us a demo of the process of taking a solid block of magnesium and turning it into the body for a surface book all the way down to the circular ish pattern cut into the body that helps shed some weight while keeping the whole unit nice and strong but this isn't the end for the CNC room they'll build something in here and then find some problems with it and try to solve them which anyone who has done prototyping or programming knows is just going to introduce more problems which then need to be solved as well this process to get down to a good level will take about 18 months during which they will also do durability tests where they will test both what it can take and also what it can't learning what the product cannot sustain can be rather helpful for further iterations and to be honest it's just fun I'm sure this had something to do with it speaking of iterations though they also showed off the design process for again the surface book this area featured a tiny fraction of the prototypes that they actually had for this device considering they were doing day-by-day iterations on that 18-month design cycle that I mentioned earlier there were also large-scale demos of small features like the surface locking mechanism that were just straight-up cool this area was great because it helped us see into the minds of the designers and the engineers working on the project as they evolved from idea to idea like the spline of the surface book looking like well the spine of a normal book moving onwards we have the human factors room where they specialize in anthropometrics or the measurement of a human individual they have tons of measuring devices in here including a special room with 36 cameras mounted all around a chair they use this room to measure Austin's head with these accurate measuring tools they can find what tolerances they need to build into their products like say an Xbox controller they also have a room in here that we worked allowed to record in that can go from near darkness to 65,000 Lux and can change in color temperature from 2800 to 6,200 Kelvin holy Sh moving on from there we have the audio labs now Microsoft has over 25 anechoic chambers but the main one that we looked at today cost over 1.5 million dollars it's the quietest place on earth they can use this room to measure down to negative 20 decibels meaning they can literally hear air particles moving oh my god that's insane anyways this helps them study how the human brain processes sounds how different shapes of products can affect their audio and more and last but not least we have the soft room and the paint room where they test color concepts and texture possibilities for a wide range of products like keyboard covers for surface and various fabrics and textures on things like hololens and the well now seemingly discontinued Microsoft band this tour was awesome and completely unexpected it was fun to hang out with Austin and judder for the day and it didn't end here either next we checked out the garage but to find out what that is you'll have to stay tuned for another video do you want a beautiful website that just works well Squarespace could probably be for you they have 24/7 live chat and email support and it's only 12 bucks a month and when you sign up for a year you get a free domain they even all 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film on site so let me know how that went overall check out the link down below to see where to buy stuff I guess like surface and Xbox controllers or something on Amazon also linked in the description is our merch store so you can buy cool shirts like this one and our community forum where you can talk about Microsoft's prototyping lab or the fact that their watch thing is discontinued and stuff like that if you're wondering what to watch next click this it's another one of our factory tours either the Sennheiser one or the omron one whoever edits this will put one of them there