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Microsoft shows off 3D talking head avatars

Microsoft shows off 3D talking head avatars

...posted videos of 3D talking heads, as well as new initiatives in smart displays — both of which make use of camera technologies to create new... Read more

23 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Smart Displays - good riddance to dumb technology

...if it wasn't for the divorce rate. No, the problem with smart displays always lay in the licensing. Unlike tablet PCs, which are a... Read more

6 January, 2004 by Matt Loney

CE family welcomes Mira

...previously known as Mira will now be known as Windows CE for Smart Displays. The tablet devices themselves will be known as Windows-powered smart... Read more

27 June, 2002 by Ian Fried

ViewSonic sets UK launch for Smart Displays

The first gadgets based on Microsoft's "Smart Displays" concept are arriving in the UK, but their price tags may... Read more

10 February, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft to fix Mira's cracks

...the CES show in Las Vegas. Nancy Nemes, European product manager for Smart Displays, said that work on an update is underway. This update will... Read more

8 January, 2003 by Matt Loney

Smart Displays: a first look

...technology for providing access to your PC from anywhere in the home. Smart Displays are, according to Microsoft’s Web site, liberating, empowering and convenient... Read more

3 December, 2002 by Sandra Vogel

Smart Displays allow admins to roam

...administrators. How a Smart Display worksFirst, it's important to understand that Smart Displays have been developed by Microsoft (which refers to them as Windows... Read more

17 July, 2003 by Jason Hiner

Microsoft offers extra-strength tablets

...division, joins Samsung, ViewSonic and other display makers in manufacturing so-called smart displays. Packard Bell plans to start selling a 10-inch smart display... Read more

13 March, 2003 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft's 'Mira' delayed

Microsoft has benched "smart displays" for the couch-potato set, delaying the launch of the handheld... Read more

15 October, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Get ready for a bigger dose of tablet PCs

...Microsoft technology which emerged at about the same time; the Smart Display. Smart Displays were little more than mobile dumb terminals with touch-sensitive screens... Read more

26 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

Microsoft dumps Smart Display

...of hardware partners, including ViewSonic, Philips, NEC, Fujitsu and TriGem, to build smart displays. Viewsonic was the first company to launch hardware based on Smart... Read more

6 January, 2004 by Matt Loney

Sony launches TV with Web-pad remote

...The Sony plasma TV's remote unit has much in common with smart displays, which were launched in January this year from makers such as... Read more

5 August, 2003 by Staff

Sharp displays Mira-style smart screen

...and use a stylus for data input. Philips and Viewsonic have developed Smart Displays, but have smaller screens compared with the Sharp mobile TV as... Read more

9 May, 2003 by Staff

XP's smart display enables double vision

...inch or 15-inch detachable monitor running Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays operating system. They do not contain hard drives and do not... Read more

8 May, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Microsoft slashes CE.Net licence fee

...time operating systems. Among other products, Windows CE.Net is used in Smart Displays, portable handheld screens that can send and receive email and scroll... Read more

7 May, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

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