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It’s been just about 2 months since Windows 7 launch and talks about the next iteration of Windows are bound to happen. I just stumbled across this Video on Youtube called “Windows 8 Copenhagen concept video”

Have a look :

Copenhagen User Experience from Copenhagen Concept on Vimeo.

Microsoft recently filed a patent which depicts an Online Avatar of a person resemble his actual offline look. An over-weight person will have a fat avatar. Via the use of people’s health records Microsoft want to create physically accurate avatars and thus encourage them to lose weight.

The abstract of the patent states:

An avatar generator for a virtual environment reflects a physiological characteristic of the user, injecting a degree of reality into the capabilities or appearance. Thereby, many of the incentives of the real world are replicated in a virtual environment. Physiological data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication. Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise. Physiological data that reflect the health and perhaps also mood also improve social interaction in virtual environments. People seeking to meet and become acquainted with particular types of people are not thwarted by the artificiality of avatars. The physiological data can be gleaned from a third party health data collection repository, a healthcare smart card, a real-time physiological sensor (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, peak flow, pedometer, etc.)

Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. Use SharedView to put your heads together and collaborate – create, convey, and communicate…across physical boundaries, through firewalls, and down to the smallest details.

Here are 3 simple but powerful SharedView actions:

CONNECT – Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and invite them to share with you.

SHOW : Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real-time.

SHARE - with up to 15 people in a session. Anyone can share, and the person sharing can give control to anyone else.

Download Microsoft SharedView for Windows. [Size: 3.2 MB]

An old but interesting video I came across. Have a watch :