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Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing perform into the spatial-computing arena with a new study challenge known as LightSpace.Andy Wilson,Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, a Microsoft investigation who was essential in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market,Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010, is one of the principals behind LightSpace. Wilson along with other researchers are set to show the new challenge the week of October three in the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Ny City. (Microsoft showed off LightSpace internally at its TechFest analysis fair on campus in March.)LightSpace utilizes multiple depth cameras and projectors to allow consumers to transfer objects in between touch surfaces. The cameras make it seem that users are carrying projected objects within their hands after which “dropping” them onto walls,Microsoft Office Home And Student, where they can be manipulated using multitouch gestures similar to those used with the Microsoft Surface tabletop.There is a connection among LightSpace and Microsoft;s Kinect game-sensor technology. Microsoft researchers envision Kinect helping to make depth cameras cheaper and more popular. According to a newly published whitepaper on LightSpace:“Depth cameras (such as those from PrimeSense1, 3DV, and Canesta) are able to directly sense range to the nearest physical surface at each pixel location. They are unique in that they allow inexpensive real time 3D modeling of surface geometry, making some traditionally difficult computer vision problems easier. For example, with a depth camera it is trivial to composite a false background in a video conferencing application. Microsoft’s Kinect device builds on PrimeSense technology and computes a skeletal model of a player for motion-driven gaming. While such cameras are now rare, the release of Kinect is likely to make depth cameras inexpensive and widely available.”LightSpace attempts to further the notion that “the room is the computer.” (So much for “the network is the computer.”) It also points to a future where all physical surfaces become interactive displays — including the user;s body.Microsoft has been looking for ways to extend its Surface technologies. A couple of years ago, Microsoft researchers showed off a spherical Suface. In 2009, they demonstrated another Surface spinoff known as “SecondLight,” a rear projection-vision surface technologies that allowed customers to task through and beyond the display. (By the way,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 clave, for you codename hounds,Microsoft Office 2010 Standard, the Bing Maps on Silverlight job at Microsoft happened to be codenamed “FirstLight.”)(Thanks to Microsoft Student Partner Pradeep for the pointer to the LightSpace page.)