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yeah we worked about Microsoft and and on that note I would like to show you guys something that we did we went to Microsoft you guys already seen a little bit of this we went to I went to Microsoft to their campus and looked at some of the research projects they're working on and it was a pretty interesting trip so take a look and and we'll be right back I never thought I'd see this with my eyes with my eyeballs I figured I'd have to get implants to see it build a 92 there's 91 buildings before this pretty man hey hey Josh be an are you good to see it so this is Steve Clayton he's going to show us around the campus and take us into the dark deep chambers that no one else is ever allowed to see right oh you promised me welcome to Microsoft all right let's do it excited I can get me a cloud computing shirt t-shirt let's you will come on bite size too small ladies small what you need is some gold cool yeah do you have golf gear here Ballmer is a golfer right does he go or no I think so I don't play around with you loud to refer to miss Ballmer excuse that against rules you can't say wrong let's go fine yeah that doesn't say Microsoft on it I'll bet it does no it does it look at this line what is what what are the savings like wait a second this is line for zooms yeah what do you mean no no but is there any special reason why there's a line for just another back in stock are you gay zooms are back in stock to Microsoft or there's a line this is insane this is probably the only place you'll see a line for zoom Zack which is I think they're gonna kick us out now this kinda makes me want to buy a zoom though I might get in this line how much is the 64 this is a visitor center this is design just kind of show off what you guys are doing yeah it gives a little sense of how the history of where we Microsoft invented the typewriter yeah you invented me you invented the Atari and get a general electric television are you taking credit for the GE television I feel like that's somewhat disingenuous my job is to work with all of the kind of product groups all of the research teams across Microsoft were looking at trends like natural user interface and social computer and cloud computer and until it helped to tell the story of what Microsoft is doing across 90,000 people well right now we are on main campus for Microsoft in Redmond in building 99 which is the headquarters for Microsoft research worldwide and the location of our Redmond research levels hey so who are you guys and what are you working on so I'm Brandon Lloyd are you miss Teresa I'm Nicola da Vinci that's the nature and we both work in the extreme computing group it's a kind of a lab within Microsoft we're computing right it guys had to drink a lot of Mountain Dew this is a simple mobile augmented reality system we have this image and the cameras on the tablets that you see here with that this one fixed on the tripod they are tracking that image so this is this is tracking here and then you guys are tracking individuals right right by finding this image in the video feed it can figure out where the camera is in space and then once it knows where the the real camera is it can render virtual objects from that same point of view and then overlay them on on the background okay so you guys have another mode on here that's called Kinect mode and we brought Steve in to help us out with this and can you explain what's going on with this we hooked up a Kinect camera to this and what we're doing is we're capturing whoever sits in front of the camera in real time this is disturbing so this is kind of a different kind of video chat all right let me try this out when we get there it is it is I feel like this isn't right people should be like and want me to look at yeah look at the connector okay and then we'll freeze it and now you can come in and explore yourself with the tablet that is something I enjoy doing so oh wow this is very upsetting very upsetting this is horrific I mean this is a true horror this is like a scene from a Saw movie so we're making our way through the Microsoft campus here but we're going to stop and take a look at this anechoic chamber they've got where they do sound testing and they test webcams there and supposed to be pretty cool and I'm hoping I can get maybe a little nap in if i play my cards right hey hey how are you I'm Josh I'm Dale sig oh I think so thanks for letting us to come in here that gel and what do we look at so we are going to look at one of our an approach Amber's here at Microsoft wow this is really disorienting yes this is is it's kind of making me a little nauseous yeah normal um depending on the person it can be and so if you guys get I can barely hear you yeah that normal that isn't that is normal by passing out what if I just passed out right now does that happen for that has not happened before has anybody freaked out from this oh we had to escort people out really quickly so we test all of our acoustic prog products obviously so our webcams and headsets the Kinect was tested in here we actually also test non acoustic products like for our mice and keyboards and other devices that have some mechanical characteristics that might generate a sound we'll put them in this anechoic chamber so we can actually characterize a sound and identify if it's a buzzing or a hum or the sound is coming from that sort of thing okay have you ever come in here and discovered Steve Ballmer asleep taking it a little stealing away a little nap and had to wake him up no really yet you can tell me man no no you know when you think about it with the lights off and this nose sound be the kind of like sensory deprivation yes you know can you imagine what you'd see in that pitch-black the ball everybody's very uncomfortable Ballmer jokes around here I have to say every time I mention baller people are like I can't comment on that it's like he's listening watching uh you know it's why I've thought about it I actually could I go in here and just stand in the dark in the chamber sure okay great oh my god wait a second I might actually be having some kind of vision I'm seeing Steve Ballmer napping this is amazing this vision of Steve Ballmer I mean flying this is really cool we're in the Microsoft model shop this is where Microsoft's actual products are designed and built we're talking to Carson a guard who is your model maker here and so if a new Xbox were coming if there was a new version which you can tell me if there is it's no care off my world so what are we looking at here you've got a table full of we're looking at basically a variety of what we do down here broken down to everything from raw 3d printed parts to some CNC parts this is a 3d printed wrench that you printed in one piece correct and you can use it like an actual yeah so that shows the ability to be able to print multiple parts together as an assembly so we're here with young Kim who's one of the designers who worked on the arc mouse which is a kind of an award-winning pretty big product as well as mice go it also kind of started with was nothing more than just hair bands and foam core where we were playing around with pieces that bent and flexed you have to take this up to Ballmer right and say look this will work not really don't you don't go right yeah we didn't check in with Steve Ballmer that he doesn't you know he doesn't approve all the early mice design no that was my understanding like this okay good that's good I really need to get something like this or this because I'm using like an old every time I reach into my bag there's like a ball there what kind of and yeah it's like it's one of these guys it's like a classic it's a classic Mouse okay have you ever seen anything this advanced I think someone this stylish is your I think deserves so that is something like this battery and I appreciate it but you know what's cool about this actually I don't like big mice and this is a little bit it's a little bit bigger of a footprint but it feels you almost understand where you're holding it in your hand which is great and it the fact that it you know full fledge you can plans in your pocket I mean this is this just disgusting this is tickets man you have a hammer get it get the hammer let's go this is ooh very strong surprisingly surprisingly it's go Logitech is gonna love this by the way yeah there you go by the way you know you have big you've to sell or give me a mouse now okay no you don't oh you don't have a mouse go okay no hi hey thank you so much for this really cool that don't you want it I just totally destroyed my miles for for no reason and and I still don't have a mouse replacement here's the really shocking thing I discovered right after I smashed my mouth mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that the ark touch has a dongle so it was pretty upsetting