SurroundWeb: Microsoft's Plan To Cloak Your Living Room With Internet

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Your browser is in all your devices. Hell, you can even get it in your watch if you're down with that. And in the Microsoft world, its next destination is your active allowance wall.

Microsoft Analysis has adapted up a ancestor of something alleged SurroundWeb, a holodeck-style arrangement that finds the collapsed surfaces in a room, and projects the internet assimilate them. Microsoft lays it out:

We acquaint SurroundWeb, the first least-privilege belvedere for immersive allowance experiences. SurroundWeb is a "3D Browser" that gives web pages the adeptness to affectation beyond assorted surfaces in a room, acclimate their actualization to altar present in that room, and collaborate application accustomed user input.

SurroundWeb enables atomic advantage for these immersive web pages by introducing two new abstractions: first, a Allowance Skeleton that enables atomic advantage for allowance rendering, clashing antecedent approaches that focus on inputs alone. Second, a Apprehension Sandbox that allows web pages to annals agreeable to appearance if an article is detected, but prevents the web server from alive if the article is present. SurroundWeb provides three aloofness properties: apprehension privacy, apprehension privacy, and alternation aloofness while accompanying enabling Web pages to use article acceptance and allowance affectation capabilities.

Working carefully with Kinect, SurroundWeb will map and bethink your room, searching for the spots area it could axle content. According to the abstract, it aswell will attending for things into your room—a can of soda, for example—and if its website has new or absorbing content, it will appearance up in the apprehension of the room. You could aswell browse altered URLs from your buzz or tablet, and SurroundWeb could bang them up on a apparent in the room. But these are just a few examples.

If SurroundWeb sounds familiar, that's because it's not a far cry from the insane IllumiRoom—the wide-angle bump box that angry your TV and animate into an immersive gaming experience—Microsoft teased out endure spring.


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The a lot of apparent aberration with SurroundWeb is Microsoft is ambidextrous with web pages, which are activating and advance and change, rather than games, which accept a set antecedent code. (You can apprehend the accomplished abstraction for SurroundWeb in this 16-page paper.) But it's a accurate eyes of the approaching in which you would in fact be able to collaborate with the things you do online, whether it's watching a video or browsing Twitter. Imagine, for example, you could apprehend Snowfall in this setting.

It's just analysis at this point. But accustomed that Microsoft has already fabricated gesture-based controls for the active allowance into a absolute affair with Kinect, it's not absolutely unrealistic. [Microsoft Research via TNW]


SurroundWeb: Microsoft's Plan To Cloak Your Living Room With Internet

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